N'Golo Kanté went to Rúben Neves in the 40th second.
Not the 4th minute. The 40th second, and that man is 5 foot 6 and he won a league with Leicester and a league with Chelsea and a World Cup in July, and he put himself 5 feet off a 21-year-old's shoulder and stayed there for the next hour and a half.
By 20 past 4 that had cost me a centre half, a technical area and most of my voice.
Rrp. The sheet off the printer at 20 past 1 in a room with 4 people in it.
CRYSTAL PALACE: Pope. Ward, Dann, Tarkowski, Chilwell. Neves, Højbjerg, Eze. Townsend, Benteke, Zaha.
Bench: Krul, Sakho, Tuanzebe, Wan-Bissaka, Hakimi, Rodríguez, Grealish, Olise, Blake, Kirby, Cartwright.
6 changes, 66 hours after we landed from Germany, off a card with 1 red on it and 4 ambers and a name with a number beside it.
