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Ruben Amorim, Manchester United manager, speaks to TNT:
We had more intensity in the second half. The opponent was more tired. Josh [Zirkzee] controlled the ball different. We won second balls.
Set pieces are so important in our league, to open the game. If you don’t work on set pieces, you are losing the game already.
It’s important to win every game. Today is proof that if you play the same way, but increase the way you fight for every ball, the small details – the pass, the move – with a different pace, we can beat anyone.
ShareEd Aarons’ match report from Selhurst ParkShare
Desperately disappointing from a Palace perspective. The home side could have possibly been two or three up in the first half, but faded badly in the second half. Manchester United deserve credit for the way they came out after the break, but you don’t have to be Steve Coppell to notice how tired Palace looked after their Conference League efforts in midweek.
Palace have now lost three and drawn one (a 0-0 draw against Brighton) in the Premier League matches that came directly after their four Conference League matches this season.
Manchester United’s two goalscorers, Mason Mount and Joshua Zirkzee, speak to TNT:
Mason Mount:
We have not found it easy away from home. We needed to bounce back after Monday’s game. It was about reacting in the changing room and in the second room. We did that, we were at it. The win for massive but also for me to play the full game. I haven’t done that in a while. I’m feeling good.
Joshua Zirkzee, who scored his first goal in 24 Premier League appearances:
It’s one of the biggest clubs in the world and if you don’t score in that time, there is pressure. But I’m surrounded by good people supporting me, and I’m thankful for then. It’s a good environment.
Talking of those other Premier League games, you can join John Brewin for West Ham v Liverpool, which is just about to kick off. It should be a special game for the Hammers, after the news of Billy Bonds’ death broke this morning.
Manchester United up to sixth with that victory, leapfrogging Palace. The table will change this afternoon, though, with four games to come this afternoon.
ShareFull-time: Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United
A game of two halves! United were far superior in the latter.
90+5 min: Devenny shoots straight into the United wall, and that is surely that!
90+4 min: A magical touch from Hughes takes the Palace substitute beyond Casemiro and Palace have a free-kick 20 yards out! How Casemiro escaped a booking there I don’t know, but Palace have a late chance for an equaliser!
90+2 min: Long throws and hopeful crosses are catapulted into the United box, but the visitors stand firm. Dorgu wins a valuable free kick from Lerma, eating up valuable seconds.
90 min: Four minutes added on. United bring on Patrick Dorgu and Kobbie Mainoo for Diallo and Mbeumo. The visitors are definitely in a low block now. It’s up to Palace to pick the lock.
87 min: Perhaps it’s the injection of fresh blood, perhaps United have dropped deeper as we approach 90 minutes, but Palace have finally got their foot on the ball, and are probing for an equaliser. Time is running out, though.
85 min: More Palace substitutions as Glasner desperately searches for inspiration. Jefferson Lerma and Justin Devenny come on for Tyrick Mitchell and Daichi Kamada. Devenny’s first contribution, regrettably for Palace, is to blast a cross into the top tier of the stand. The camera cuts to the wonderfully coiffured Palace chairman Steve Parish, who sighs heavily.
83 min: Mbeumo cuts inside and tries a textbook R2 finish (one for the Pro Evo heads there) into the top corner, but slightly misses the mark, curling it wide.
81 min: United respond with a change of their own, and it’s a significant one with Lisandro Martínez coming on for the cautioned Luke Shaw. A knee injury has meant Martínez hasn’t played a minute of first-team football since February and the Argentinian returns to the field to slot in at left centre back. In a departure from his former look, I am delighted to report that Martínez has now floppy hair!
79 min: Double change for Palace, who need to find a spark from somewhere. They have been decidedly second best in this second half. Pino and Wharton (!) off, Uche and Hughes on.
77 min: “Feels like a bad sign for United that Mbeumo, one of their few players that made your combined XI (I’d agree), hasn’t been mentioned in this commentary since the line ups,” emails Zach Neeley.
Yep, the former Brentford man hasn’t had his best game but pops up here with a timely shot, allowing me to crowbar him into this MBM. After a textbook dummy shot to send Richards to the shops, Mbeumo shoots straight at Henderson, who has now taken the cap off with the sun disappearing behind one of the stands.
It’s been a quiet afternoon Bryan Mbeumo. Photograph: John Sibley/Action Images/ReutersShare
Updated at 08.48 EST