Manchester United suffered a second successive defeat at home in the Premier League as Joachim Andersen’s superb strike gave Crystal Palace an impressive victory at Old Trafford.
The two teams were meeting for the second time in five days, with Erik ten Hag’s side comfortably winning 3-0 in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday.
But Palace rested a number of first-team players for that game and were a different proposition on Saturday as they produced the perfect away performance.
After Tyrick Mitchell cleared Rasmus Hojlund’s effort off the line, Palace took the lead when Andersen superbly drove a first-time effort into the top corner after a free-kick.
Manchester United piled on the pressure after that, but struggled to find a way through the Palace defence. When they did they found goalkeeper Sam Johnstone in superb form.
Johnstone made two crucial saves in the second half to preserve Palace’s lead, first pushing over Bruno Fernandes’ dipping effort before keeping out Hojlund’s bullet header.
The Palace goal continued to live a charmed life but Manchester United could not find a way through as the visitors secured a win that moved them above their opponents to ninth, with the hosts dropping to 10th.
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Crystal Palace
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Squad number1Player nameJohnstone
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Squad number2Player nameWard
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Squad number16Player nameAndersen
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Squad number6Player nameGuéhi
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Squad number3Player nameMitchell
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Squad number28Player nameDoucouré
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Squad number19Player nameHughes
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Squad number9Player nameJ Ayew
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Squad number10Player nameEze
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Squad number15Player nameSchlupp
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Squad number14Player nameMateta
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Squad number26Player nameRichards
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Squad number44Player nameRiedewald
Line-ups
Man Utd
Formation 4-2-3-1
- 24Onana
- 20Dalot
- 19VaraneSubstituted forMaguireat 87′minutes
- 2LindelöfSubstituted forvan de Beekat 88′minutes
- 4S AmrabatBooked at 79mins
- 18CasemiroBooked at 10mins
- 7MountBooked at 77minsSubstituted forMartialat 77′minutes
- 28PellistriSubstituted forGarnachoat 61′minutes
- 8Bruno Fernandes
- 10RashfordSubstituted forEriksenat 77′minutes
- 11Højlund
Substitutes
- 1Bayindir
- 5Maguire
- 9Martial
- 14Eriksen
- 17Garnacho
- 34van de Beek
- 35Evans
- 39McTominay
- 46Mejbri
Crystal Palace
Formation 4-2-3-1
- 1Johnstone
- 2WardBooked at 45mins
- 16Andersen
- 6Guéhi
- 3Mitchell
- 28Doucouré
- 19HughesBooked at 32mins
- 9J Ayew
- 10EzeSubstituted forRichardsat 88′minutes
- 15SchluppSubstituted forRiedewaldat 78′minutes
- 14Mateta
Substitutes
- 4Holding
- 17Clyne
- 23Ebiowei
- 26Richards
- 31Matthews
- 44Riedewald
- 49Rak-Sakyi
- 52Ozoh
- 53Ola-Adebomi
- Referee:
- Chris Kavanagh
- Attendance:
- 73,428
Live Text
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Match ends, Manchester United 0, Crystal Palace 1.
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Second Half ends, Manchester United 0, Crystal Palace 1.
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Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Marc Guéhi.
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Attempt blocked. Alejandro Garnacho (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Donny van de Beek with a headed pass.
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Corner, Crystal Palace. Conceded by Harry Maguire.
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Foul by Sofyan Amrabat (Manchester United).
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Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing.
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Attempt missed. Donny van de Beek (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.
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Substitution, Manchester United. Donny van de Beek replaces Victor Lindelöf.
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Substitution, Crystal Palace. Chris Richards replaces Eberechi Eze.
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Substitution, Manchester United. Harry Maguire replaces Raphaël Varane.
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Attempt missed. Casemiro (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Anthony Martial.
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Attempt blocked. Alejandro Garnacho (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Anthony Martial.
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Foul by Casemiro (Manchester United).
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Eberechi Eze (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
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Attempt missed. Joachim Andersen (Crystal Palace) header from very close range is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Eberechi Eze with a cross following a set piece situation.
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Sofyan Amrabat (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
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Hand ball by Sofyan Amrabat (Manchester United).
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Substitution, Crystal Palace. Jairo Riedewald replaces Jeffrey Schlupp.
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Substitution, Manchester United. Christian Eriksen replaces Marcus Rashford.
