Crystal Palace Under-18s were unable to prevent a heavy defeat to table-topping Cardiff Cthis afternoon at the Academy's ground in Beckenham.
Palace found themselves 4-0 down after 37 minutes following a series of neat passing moves and clinical finishes from the visitors’ forwards and were unable to claw back any goals of their own despite a rejuvenated second-half performance.
Overloading the midfield and switching play between the wings, Cardiff had too much for the hosts in the first-half with centreback Trystan Jones and forward Sion Spence being particularly instrumental for the Bluebirds.
The visitors’ first goal came on 15 minutes from a sharp break down the right, with the resulting cross being tucked away across Eagles shot-stopper Rohan Luthra by Spence.