I’ve seen someone else mention this but correct me if I’m wrong, Mitchell was still on the pitch for City’s first goal. He tracked Bernardo Silva across the box but couldn’t get near him before the shot on goal. Richards looked out of place on the left, poor decision by Viera but let’s not blame him for goals whilst he’s on the bench ha.

We were very poor defending in the second half and gave Haaland far too much room and Silva was totally unmarked when he received the pass on the wing to score the first goal. Mitchell had been dragged into the goal mouth leaving Silva on his own.

The Mitchell injury on top of being cheated out of a fair goal to put us 0-3 up was devastating.
Our left back was still hobbling about and should not have been trying to carry on when the City scorer cut in from Mitchell's side to score a deflected goal.
Unfortunately he was replaced by Richards, an inexperienced Premier League defender, who is obviously a right-sided centre-half asked to suddenly be a left-back away at the champions.
Our squad was really shown up and exposed at this point, in fact what was happening on the pitch was such a mess Richards was switched over to the right side as the goals went in.
A club our size can put out a decent first XI, but cannot compete with the squad depth and world-class subs a club like City can throw on as we struggle to make do and mend with limited resources.

I could do with a mute Jermaine Jenas button so I didn't have to hear his toady, crappy opinions on MotD. I have no idea how he's made it as a pundit - he's without any personality or insight.

Also Man City away, followed by Tuesday night game at home, followed by Newcastle away. Fixture gods really don’t like us

We've got the two toughest away games behind us and we've come out of them with one more point than expected and with some credit.

With Man U, Brighton and Chelsea to follow the Newcastle game, we'll have played 5 of the so-called big 6 in our first 9 games plus 2 of the next best in Newcastle and our south coast rivals (both away). Let's hope we can avoid banana skins against the eminently winnable games that come after them.

I didnt really expect anything from the City match yday so was delighted at half time and was expecting the win . The defeat hurt but its kinda made right by not getting beaten by Scummerpool last week , if you lived over here in Ireland you would know why . Thousands of plastic scousers over here with shirts they bought in the 70s that are way too small for them now . I dont think ive ever seen anyone wearing a City shirt.

One positive from yesterday = 2 goals from set pieces!

(PS I wish Andersen would jump like that when he's defending!)

If I understood correctly, Darren England stood in for Graham Scott yesterday because he was ill.

You've written what I've come to accept, which is that sadly Brighton are much better than we are at the moment, as a club and a team.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)