Crystal Palace and Brighton & Hove Albion had to settle for a 0-0 draw in an entertaining Premier League contest at Selhurst Park on Sunday.
The rivals could not be separated in a typically lively encounter despite both teams creating enough chances to find a winner.
Jean-Philippe Mateta and Ismaila Sarr went closest to scoring for a Crystal Palace side who were without injured captain Marc Guehi. Bart Verbruggen produced an outstanding first-half save to deny Sarr from close range.
Diego Gomez was denied by Dean Henderson and Yankuba Minteh wasted a glorious chance for Brighton, who had a second-half penalty award reversed after a challenge on Georginio Rutter was reviewed.
The end result means Palace sit 10th in the Premier League table but just two points adrift of fourth-placed Sunderland, while Brighton are a place and a point behind the Eagles.
How the match unfolded
Mateta fired wastefully over for Palace before Mats Wieffer's fizzed centre needed a vital touch from Maxence Lacroix at the other end.
A frenetic opening continued when Henderson brilliantly denied Gomez from 12 yards, and Brighton goalkeeper Verbruggen parried well from Sarr's edge-of-the-box effort.
Brighton let Palace off the hook on the stroke of half-time when Minteh woefully side-footed wide after a rapid break from Gomez.
Palace wasted a golden move 10 minutes after the restart, Sarr first tying his feet in knots after being slipped in by Adam Wharton, before Daichi Kamada fired wide when the ball fell to him.
Rutter thought he had won a penalty after tumbling under the challenge of Jaydee Canvot, but, following a pitchside review by referee Tim Robinson, the decision was overturned and the Brighton forward was awarded a yellow card for simulation.
Kamada earned the ire of three Palace team-mates when lashing into the side-netting after showing good feet in the area, and substitute Yeremy Pino saw a low, stinging drive kept out by Verbruggen deep into second-half injury-time.
Teenage kicks for Canvot as Palace step up in Guehi absence
Palace's 3-1 Europa League win over AZ on Thursday came at a cost with captain Guehi sustaining a foot injury that Oliver Glasner said could well cause him to sit out England duty over the international break.
It meant a first start for teenager Canvot, and the 19-year-old stood up well to the challenge of deputising in the absence of the Eagles' skipper.
Together with Chris Richards and Lacroix, he formed part of a Palace defence that were organised and switched on against a dynamic Brighton front line.
There was the heart-in-mouth moment when Robinson called for a spot-kick midway through the second half, though he made a great call to overturn that decision with Rutter clearly instigating the contact.
Glasner has always had an uncanny knack of finding solutions whenever his squad has had to cope with a high-profile sale or injury, and so it proved again here, with Tyrick Mitchell also producing a fine performance in attack and defence.
Had Palace been as composed in the opposition area as they were in their own, then they may have been celebrating a win on another occasion.
Glasner's side will have the chance to get back into the win column after the break when they visit rock-bottom Wolverhampton Wanderers on 22 November.
Gomez shines but Brighton lack bite
Gomez was a real livewire for the Seagulls, and on another day, he may have had a goal and an assist in the first half.
The Paraguay midfielder caught his early effort well, after anticipating the flight of the ball and brilliantly bringing it down, but he was excellently denied by Henderson.
It was a much tougher chance than the one Gomez laid on a plate for Minteh at the end of the opening period, the winger dragging wide of the near post when he ought to have worked Henderson at the very least.
As the game neared a conclusion, Brighton were looking the more likely to take the lead against a Palace side looking a little leggy after their midweek European venture.
But Gomez and his team-mates just could not quite find a telling pass to unlock a resolute Palace defence and Fabian Hurzeler had to settle for a hard-fought point on his 100th competitive league game as a manager (49 in the Premier League).
Brighton now have a near two-week gap due to the international break before welcoming Brentford to the Amex Stadium on 22 November.
Club reports
Crystal Palace report | Brighton report
What the managers said
Oliver Glasner: "It was a huge effort from both teams and it was more [a case of them] neutralising each other. We defended very well and credit to Brighton, they defended very well. They controlled our strengths and we controlled theirs. Then it was [a matter of] who gets the lucky punch."
Fabian Hurzeler: "I agree [we defended really well]. That's what I said before the game, it's about keeping clean sheets. If we use our chances, then we are the deserved winner in this game but sometimes football is like this. In the end, we are disappointed that we didn't win because we played really well, controlled the game and created a lot of chances. But we have to accept it."
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Key facts
Palace stretched their unbeaten run at home in the Premier League to 12 matches (W6 D6), the longest current unbeaten home run in the competition. It's also the Eagles’ longest unbeaten home run in the top tier since between February and December 1990 (17).
Canvot made his first Premier League start for Palace on Sunday, aged 19 years and 103 days old, becoming the youngest defender to start a Premier League match for the Eagles.
After recording their second consecutive clean sheet in the Premier League this afternoon, Brighton have now kept as many shutouts in their last two matches as they managed across their previous 22 league matches combined.
Danny Welbeck made his 150th Premier League appearance for Brighton, becoming only the fourth player to reach this milestone for the Seagulls after Lewis Dunk (277), Pascal Gross (228), and Solly March (190).