Crystal Palace lost 0-1 to Wolverhampton Wanderers in a match that told a complicated story, given the volume of substitutions and bookings logged across both sides throughout the afternoon.
Wolves were the sharper side in the opening exchanges. Will Hughes gave them the lead at fifteen minutes, finding space that Palace's midfield failed to close, and the visitors carried that advantage with reasonable composure into the half-hour period. Jaydee Canvot added a second before Adam Wharton and Tolu Arokodare both entered the referee's notebook either side of the interval, lending a fractious edge to proceedings.
Daichi Kamada's involvement just after the break pointed to Palace pressing for a response, but Ladislav Krejci's double contribution in the sixty-first and sixty-third minutes, alongside David Møller Wolfe's booking shortly after, suggested Wolves had little intention of conceding control. Chadi Riad was cautioned at sixty-seven, adding further heat to a game that had grown physical.
Evann Guessand, Brennan Johnson and João Gomes all entered the action across the final quarter, with the closing stages producing a cluster of bookings for André, Guessand, Angel Gomes and Ismaïla Sarr that reflected the broader tension of the afternoon.
Palace offered little to alter the result. Wolves managed the game without great drama in its later stages, and the three points head to the West Midlands on the back of a controlled, if unspectacular, performance.
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