It was a derby day for Palace to forget as 10-man Brighton ran out comfortable winners at the Amex Stadium, scoring three times in the first half to stun Roy Hodgson’s team.
The Seagulls capitalised on a controversial Glenn Murray penalty to set them on their way, but they did suffer a setback following Shane Duffy’s red card. However, that didn’t disrupt the hosts who quickly added a second through Leon Balgun seconds after his introduction off the bench, and then in first half stoppage-time Florin Andone raced away to net the third.
The Eagles did pull one back with 10 minutes to go when Luka Milivojevic netted a penalty of his own to score his third of the campaign, but the damage had been done long before.