It’s not even like last night was one off and we can just write it off because historical amount of injuries or whatever. Truth is the team out there, bar center halves, was actually quite decent and there was no justification for that performance.
It was also the same kind of performance we have been producing on a fairly regular basis, was just the first time our opposition were clinical and were able to convert their chances into goals at a decent rate. Palace did not even create as many chances as Newcastle, Brentford or Villa had against us, and each of them scored just 1 goal (and we actually picked up 4 points we did not deserve from those 3 games). On a different day both Everton games end up with them converting 2-3 chances too, and beating us handsomely. It’s the story of our season, we let our opponents have at least 4-5 good opportunities virtually every game, it’s just that we have been incredibly lucky that they have generally been so wasteful.
It doesn’t matter what the personnel is because it was a common theme even with full / almost full squad, and it won’t change because EtH is stubborn and convinced of his own greatness.