On-loan Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho's composure in the heart of defence has been instrumental in Crystal Palace winning back-to-back Premier League games to climb three points clear of the relegation zone, fellow centre back James Tomkins has said.
Palace kept consecutive clean sheets while beating Middlesbrough and West Bromwich Albion in their last two games with Sakho in the starting line-up, taking their total to four clean sheets in the league this season.
'Mamadou has come in and he's good to play alongside because he is so chilled and calm,' Tomkins told the club website of the French international, who joined Palace until the end of the season in January.