We went in at half time 2 up and in my opinion If Eze had been replaced then with a midfield player (Luka, Gallagher or Kouyate) we would have won that game. Love Eze’s silky skills but he doesn’t fight for the ball or chase opponents down. Everton went for it and we fell apart rather than defending in numbers and using the ability to hit them on the break. Instead we tried to play the same as we did in the first half and allowed Everton to much space in midfield - disappointed but realise it’s been a great season for us with a Wembley visit as well :-)

Safe trip home and solidarity for making the long trip despite the result!

I still remember Swansea away under Pards. Almost went for a swim in the bay after that collapse!!

Everyone bottled that in the second half...but it's easy to blame Luka isn't it? Some of you lot make me laugh.

Anyway, disappointing. Season may well fizzle out, but let's not lose sight of the bigger picture. It's been a great season.

You are one of them.

How has it been unbelievably good season?

You may want to refresh memory and take a look back over all our seasons in the Prem (I have helped you out a bit)

Staying in the league you class as the goal really

Season - POS - Manager - Spend
21/22 - 13 - Patrick Vieira [Cup Semi] - £77.05m
20/21 - 14 - Roy Hodgson - £20.16m
19/20 - 14 - Roy Hodgson - £6.84m
18/19 - 12 - Roy Hodgson - £10.67m
17/18 - 11 - Roy Hodgson - £44.06m
16/17 - 14 - Sam Allardyce - £91.08m
15/16 - 15 - Alan Pardew [Cup Final] - £25.92m
14/15 - 10 - Alan Pardew - £28.10m
13/14 - 11 - Tony Pulis - £29.70m

Next you claim nothing to fight for here are two prize money and you want to beat rivals Brighton who are above us.

Disgraceful second half.

Manager again showed at times he is clueless and the players didn't even need to really do much knock the ball around be boring keep doign what other teams do waste time fall to ground.

Wilf again showed he is not a top player and its about time he stopped getting special treatment from the club when not performing.

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I've often thought and said that my team, compared to some others, has balls! Here, they appear to have been castrated at half time.

It’s long been apparent ‘virtue signaling’ is now in football too.

Very, very disappointing if not infuriating, anyone who wants some attention by praising a team for losing after a two-goal half time lead is at best being disingenuous at best in my eyes.

I suspect by Sunday many will be a lot calmer until such time we lose to United in an unglamorous way but the freedom to have a gripe in such situations is not only necessary for but a hallmark of a true fan.

That is unless there’s been an announcement of a cash reward for most virtuous or deluded palace fan in which case I change my statement to ‘great! We were 2-0 up at HT to a terrible team and manager but despite throwing that away embarrassingly, their fans storming the pitch, confronting our manager and so forth I’m delighted… wooohoooo!!!!

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!