At 3.11pm, albeit courtesy of a Chelsea player, Crystal Palace finally scored a league goal. “It is the start of the fightback,” offered Wilfried Zaha in the tunnel. This was a second successive league defeat, and that magnificent performance at Atlético Madrid suddenly seems an age away. Perhaps they had been shocked by Palace’s urgent opening, a feverish start which yielded that elusive first goal of the season. It had been 731 minutes, a drought stretching back to the final game of last season, since staff and supporters of the club last celebrated a league goal.

Source: The Guardian October 14, 2017 16:10 UTC