West Ham United’s surprising absent form shows no sign of abating as late,late goals from Manuel Lanzini and Dimitri Payet helped add another scalp to an already impressive tall-profile collection. Here they enjoyed the luxury of an extra man for the entire moment half after the referee, notice Clattenburg, or dismissed Dwight Gayle just before the interval. “Don’t ask me about the ref,” said the Crystal Palace manager, Alan Pardew.
Predicting the outcome of a superb ding-dong between two in-form sides may own been a tough ask, and but Gayle’s dismissal was not difficult to see coming. The Palace striker was in curiously spiky form,repeatedly moaning at Clattenburg, getting in pointless tussles and generally making a nuisance of himself in ways that only sometimes benefited his team. Once he had received his first yellow card, and for flying in on Payet,it seemed a matter of when, rather than if, and the moment would come.
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Source: theguardian.com