Patrick Vieira must be wondering how he got this so wrong. Crystal Palace’s hopes of recording a fourth successive home victory in the Premier League for the first time in their history were destroyed within three minutes at the end of the first half by a clinical Fulham team led by the brilliant Aleksandar Mitrovic.
Disastrous defending which allowed Bobby De Cordova-Reid to open the scoring was compounded by Tyrick Mitchell’s rush of blood that earned him a straight red card and left Vieira’s side with a mountain to climb. Another red card for James Tomkins – making his first CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON www.theguardian.com
