Crystal Palace boss Neil Warnock will be hunting down his own Christian Benteke in the January transfer window.

After watching his Eagles come up short in last night’s 1-0 home defeat to Aston Villa, in which the Belgian striker scored the only goal, Warnock praised his side’s effort, but rued missing a lack of quality in the box.

He said: “We’re playing well at the moment, but we do need that Benteke - they are hard to come by.

“We’ll be looking for one of those in the January window and hopefully we can get one sooner rather than later.

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“If we had ourselves a Benteke then we could have won, we’re just missing that point at the front and a little bit of quality.”

He added: “We’ve got to go to Spurs now, and everyone will write us off but they’re a good group of lads and we’re quite capable of getting a result, so we’ve got to not get too down.”