It's rare that I feel sorry for the opposition, but I do have a bit of sympathy for Palace. All of their players put 110% into that one, up against it with so many injuries against statistically the second best team in the country. What's more, we were lucky to get 50% effort from most of our guys in the first half and started the second asleep which will have pissed off Mourinho to no end after the team talk. Goals change games, however, and once Chris Smalling got us in front we never looked like losing. Something shifted then and for once the players had a lot more about them, everyone's game was lifted. We attacked well, defended well for the most-part, de Gea was excellent with another worldie of a save when Palace did make a good chance in the second half. This was one of the fist times we've gone a goal down and I still thought we'd win come the 60 minute mark.
Hopefully this spurs us on for the Liverpool game now, being behind them when we played them would have been such a huge confidence blow.