The Red Devils did not make a foot in the game, in a story that began to go wrong when the game was barely 12 minutes old. Michael Olise won the applause with a brutal shot at Casemiro, he continued to express himself and finished from the edge of the area to send it into the back of the net, presaging a difficult day for those led by Ten-Hag.
And that feeling was not wrong, because there were four but there could have been more. At the end of the first half, Mateta faced the left wing and shot André Onana to make it 2-0.
And the second half was an exhibition by Palace against a groggy team that saw the match slipping away. Mitchell corrected an imperfect definition by his teammate by entering from the far post and again Olise lowered the blind with a lethal left foot after the recovery of Daniel Muñoz against a Casemiro who has probably played some of the worst games of his career.
The locals even had the chance to extend the advantagewith several dangerous situations that they could not achieve and a shot against the post that could have been 5-0.
The result is lethal: United are now 9th, six behind Tottenham Hotspur’s UEFA Europa League position and with nine to play.