Crystal Palace 1-1 Brighton: Premier League – as it happened

• 9.38pm GMT21:38 FULL TIME: Crystal Palace 1-1 Brighton & Hove Albion
• 9.21pm GMT21:21 GOAL! Crystal Palace 1-1 Brighton & Hove Albion (Zaha 76)
• 8.58pm GMT20:58 GOAL! Crystal Palace 0-1 Brighton & Hove Albion (Maupay 54)
• 8.32pm GMT20:32 HALF TIME: Crystal Palace 0-0 Brighton & Hove Albion
• 7.01pm GMT19:01 The teams
• 3.52pm GMT15:52 Preamble

Our man Ed Aarons was at Selhurst Park tonight. Here’s his take. Click and enjoy. Thanks for reading this MBM!

And now a word with Brighton scorer Neal Maupay. “We should have won the game. We played better than them. We had chances, we put pressure on them, they were struggling. They scored a nice goal, though. But it’s a bit disappointing to just have one point tonight. I know it means a lot to the fans, and to me as well. I was happy to score but unfortunately it was not enough. We had possession, a lot of chances, a lot of movement. It is enjoyable to play like that.”

Wilfried Zaha, Palace’s goalscoring hero, speaks to Sky. “Today’s obviously a big game, and I’m just glad we got back in it. If you can’t win it, don’t lose it. So I’m glad we managed to get a point at least. I was glad I managed to get the goal for the team, because we worked so hard. We’ve got a good run going, and I’m glad we can carry it on. We barely had the ball, props to them, they did their job. I felt like we deserved a point.”

The draw means Palace pass up the chance to join Manchester United and Sheffield United on 25 points. They’re now ninth, with 23, one place above Arsenal. Brighton sit in 13th, on 20 points, one ahead of Bournemouth and West Ham United. They’ll head home, back down the M23, thinking they should have really won by a couple of goals, a result that would have taken them into the top half above the aforementioned Arsenal. But this is where we all are.

There’s just enough time for Zaha to send an effort towards the bottom left from the edge of the box. Ryan claims, and that’s that. The M23 derby ends all square, after a game not so much of two halves, but of seven and two ninths. Brighton were dominant for 70 minutes, Palace awful. But the hosts rallied in the latter stages, and tied it all up with a sensational goal. They’ll be the happier of the two sides, given the overall balance of play. But that’s derby football for you.

90 min +3: Tomkins is down with cramp. Palace have done a lot of defending this evening.

90 min +2: Some space for Montoya on the right. He clips into the box. Maupay sends an overhead kick inches wide of the top left.

90 min +1: From the corner, Tomkins sends a lame header off target. Bernardo comes on for Gross.

90 min: Zaha tricks his way past Webster on the left and tees up Meyer, who looks to have been brought down by Burn to the left of the D. But there’s to be no free kick. There will, however, be three added minutes, and a corner for Palace in the first of them, the result of another Zaha probe.

89 min: Mooy tries to release Gross down the left, but the pass is too weighty. Goal kick. A sense now that Brighton, in total command for so long, just want to hear the final whistle.

87 min: Zaha sashays in from the left and sends a long pass across the pitch towards Kelly, who takes a touch and enters the box. It’s a rare old chance, but Kelly, who has never scored in the Premier League, suffers a nosebleed and lashes horribly high and wide.

86 min: Propper is booked for a cynical nudge on Zaha, as the Palace goalscorer was looking to make off down the left.

85 min: Mooy hovers over a shooting opportunity from the edge of the Palace box, but Meyer challenges him at the last. The tension at Selhurst is palpable.

84 min: Brighton make a conservative double switch. Off go Trossard and Bissouma, on come Alzate and Duffy.

83 min: Montoya skips down the right and is hauled over by Zaha. A free kick and an opportunity to swing one into the box. Gross takes. It’s a lovely delivery, and headed over by Dunk from the edge of the six-yard box. He was trying to guide the ball into the top left; he should have got something on target.

81 min: Ayew channels his inner Maradona and dribbles down the middle of the park, Brighton backtracking in a panic. He tries a curler towards the top right, but it’s always going over. Where on earth was this Crystal Palace for the first 70 minutes?

79 min: Palace are up for this now. McCarthy goes over in the box, with Dunk at his back. The referee’s not interested in giving a penalty for that one, either, though again there looked to be contact.

78 min: That’s woken Selhurst up. Brighton try to respond quickly, Maupay and Mooy combining down the right, briefly opening Palace up. Mooy crosses, but to nobody in particular.

This had been coming, with Brighton suddenly sitting back. And they’ve been made to pay for their profligacy by Zaha, who drops a shoulder to cut in from the left, takes a touch back the other way, and whips an unstoppable effort into the top left! Brighton will wonder about this scoreline long and hard, given their dominance for most of the match. But here we are!

74 min: Yep, they’ve finally risen from their slumber, an hour and ten minutes in to the match. Now Ayew races with purpose towards the Brighton box and slips a pass to Benteke on the edge of the area. Benteke can’t get a shot away. Zaha tries to keep things going, coming in from the left, then McCarthy tries an overhead kick from the middle of a muddle. Ryan claims.

73 min: Hold on! Make that two. Benteke tussles with Dunk, spinning his man down the inside-right channel and slapping a shot towards the bottom right. That’s a highly decent effort, and one tipped round the post by Ryan. Nothing comes of the corner, but that’s so much better from Palace, who appear to have finally woken up.

72 min: That was Palace’s first effort on target. Brighton have had ten.

71 min: Palace hoick one hopefully into the Brighton mixer. Benteke wins a header well, but he’s too far out to seriously trouble Ryan, who claims easily.

70 min: Mooy strides into a huge hole in the midfield. Palace look knackered. Mooy slips the ball wide left for Trossard, who takes a touch inside and fizzes a low shot towards goal. Guaita claims, eventually, after nearly spilling the ball at the feet of Montoya. It would have been a tap-in from a couple of yards.

68 min: A Dann headed clearance is latched onto by Mooy, who very nearly releases Maupay into the box with a first-time pass. But the ball clips Maupay’s heel, and Palace escape. The hosts go up the other end, Zaha dribbling in from the left, only to have the ball taken from him by Montoya’s slide tackle. The resulting corner is a non-event, but that was much better from Palace, the new man Meyer injecting a bit of much-needed energy as he sent Zaha on his way.

66 min: Milivojevic winds Propper with a good old-fashioned barge. While the Brighton midfielder catches his breath, Palace swap Kouyate for Meyer.

64 min: Bissouma big-legs into a lot of space down the middle of the park. He whistles a daisycutter towards the bottom left from the best part of 30 yards. Guaita isn’t going to be beaten from there.

63 min: Zaha curls a cross into the Brighton box from the left. Benteke competes but doesn’t get any purchase on his header. Brighton clear in the insouciant style. A little better from the hosts. Not much better, admittedly, but small acorns and all that.

62 min: A short one this time, and Trossard drops a shoulder to skedaddle into the box along the byline. He can’t find a team-mate from a promising position, a sorry end to a clever run.

61 min: Brighton’s corner isn’t all that, but Palace fail dismally to clear it anyway. Mooy and Gross combine down the left, the latter earning another corner.

60 min: Gross is clattered by Tomkins out on the left. A free kick, and a change for Brighton to load the box. Gross takes himself, and swings in a dangerous one into the mixer. Tomkins does pretty well to eyebrow out for a corner, with three Brighton players in attendance.

58 min: Palace are giving the ball away with metronomic regularity. A half-arsed Dann clearance flies straight to Propper, whose attempt to release Mooy down the right is deflected out for a corner. From the set piece, Propper spins on the penalty spot and loops a strange effort towards the top left. It should be easy pickings for Guaita, but the keeper drops it onto the crossbar and into the six-yard box. Maupay is lurking, but can’t get a shot away and the keeper eventually smothers.

56 min: A deserved lead for Brighton. Palace can have no complaints. It’s been all Brighton since the restart, just as it was in the first half, that strange Benteke cross-cum-shot apart.

It’s fair to say this had been coming. Trossard is found in acres of space down the right by a glorious Bissouma crossfield pass. Trossard cushions a first-time pass inside for Maupay, who takes a touch on the penalty spot and lashes a shot into the top right. What a beautiful goal that was.

53 min: Mooy bustles in from the left. He slips the ball wide right to Montoya, who is in acres, and should probably do better than clanging a cross off the nearest Palace player and out for a corner. The resulting set piece comes to nothing.

51 min: So having said that, Palace come close to opening the scoring! Benteke strides down the right and hooks in a vicious cross that deceives Ryan and nearly nestles in the top left, slamming off the left-hand post instead and away from danger! Not sure whether he meant that or not. If he did, hats off. It would have been some way to end his Selhurst Park drought, one that stretches back to April 2018.

49 min: Palace’s passing game is shot. Ayew clips a simple ball out of play under no pressure whatsoever. They’re still having trouble getting out of their own half.

47 min: Montoya makes off down the right and crosses deep. Trossard pulls the ball back from the other side. Kouyate chests down and clears. Brighton want a penalty for handball, but they’re never getting it. Not sure why they went so vocal for that one, yet didn’t make a sound when Riedewald clipped Montoya in the first half. People are strange.

Here we go again! Palace get the second half underway. They need to get their gamefaces on, and quick. Brighton enjoyed 68 percent possession in the first half. Palace haven’t had an attempt at goal yet. They’ve made one change: midfielder James McCarthy on for left back Jairo Riedewald. It looks as though James McArthur will stand in at left back.

Half-time entertainment. Does the Fiver count as entertainment? Probably not. Here it is anyway.

An easy claim for Guaita, and that’s your lot for the first half. Brighton have been dominant, and should have had a penalty, but they’ll be happy enough with an impressive performance that lacks only a cutting edge. Palace need a rethink. Over to you, Roy.

45 min: Ping, ping, pass, pass, pass, ping, pass, pass, passity, pass. Eventually Trossard strides down the left and purchases a cheap corner off Kelly. A chance to load the box in the one minute that’ll be added to this half.

43 min: Tomkins launches long down the right. Benteke’s not there. He can’t be bothered to make the run. That sums up Palace, who have been utterly bereft of attacking nous so far this evening.