Mason Mount completes Manchester United’s comeback win at Crystal Palace

It was a rare home defeat for the Eagles. 

Manchester United's Casemiro is challenged by Crystal Palace's Eddie Nketiah at Selhurst Park. Pic: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire.

Just when Ruben Amorim must have thought his luck would never turn. Somehow Manchester United managed to inflict Crystal Palace’s first home defeat in the Premier League since February and end their own five-year wait for a victory at this ground after a first half when their opponents should have been out of sight.

Oliver Glasner’s side had been rampant and deservedly took the lead through Jean-Philippe Mateta’s re-taken penalty. But they could not make their dominance count and having failed to score a goal against Palace in their four previous league meetings that included three defeats, like the proverbial London buses, United struck back twice in the space of nine minutes through Joshua Zirkzee and Mason Mount to snatch the points.