Another cross from Fulham is dealt with by Palace and they try to break. Mario Lemina comes flying in and Michy Batshuayi wins the free-kick in the middle.

Alan Pardew
Former Southampton and West Ham manager on BBC Radio 5 Live

As I look at it now I think the score line is fair. Although Fulham have had a lot more of the ball Crystal Palace have looked threatening on the break and they have the lead and they look very comfortable at the moment.

Palace are seeing more of the ball now and look pretty comfortable. Fulham have dominated possession but haven't taken their chances.

This half has zoomed by. Wilfried Zaha cuts inside off the left and tries to get a shot away but his touch is a bit heavy.

He manages to keep the ball - just - but Tyrick Mitchell's cross is overcooked.

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Garth Crooks
Former Tottenham Hotspur striker on Final Score

No-one in the Fulham back-line is talking. They are going to the ball in a cluster. It needs someone to say 'just hold your position'.

There was a moment there when five Fulham defenders were marking three Crystal Palace forwards. There were more than enough men to deal with the situation and yet they were all over the place.

Jeffrey Schlupp makes a lovely run down the left. He beats Andre-Frank Anguissa and wins a corner off Ola Aina.

The corner doesn't beat the first man though.

Crystal Palace haven't lost when scoring first in a Premier League match since January 2019 against Liverpool (W19 D5 since)...

Ruben Loftus-Cheek uses his strength to win a free-kick on the right. Tom Cairney swings it in but it's headed over by Andre-Frank Anguissa.

Alan Pardew
Former Southampton and West Ham manager on BBC Radio 5 Live

Wilfried Zaha for Crystal Palace and Ademola Lookman for Fulham are both outstanding players. Lookman has probably created more than Zaha but is still on the losing side. If you watch Palace on a regular basis this looks like a typical Palace performance, if you were to predict it you would say they're going to go on and win this one maybe two nil. But Fulham are showing promising signs, particularly down the left hand side, of getting the ball and creating chances.

Wilfried Zaha is causing problems. He dances along the byline, keeps the ball in play and toe-pokes it into the middle.

It is just about kept out by the foot of Alphonse Areola on the line.

Fulham are pushing for an equaliser. Antonee Robinson is getting space to put balls in from the left but he can't pick anyone out.

Martin Keown
Former Arsenal defender on Final Score

We are hoping that Aleksandar Mitrovic's luck is going to change. It has been a difficult start to the season, but he has to do better than that.

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It is fair to say Fulham have seen plenty of the ball, but as Garth Crooks and Alan Pardew have pointed out, it is what you do with it that counts.

The game is now perfectly set up for the Crystal Palace counter-attack, unless Fulham can find a way of getting through the visitors' rearguard.

Ademola Lookman and Aleksandar Mitrovic look to be the men most likely to do that, but they must take their chances when they come.

Ademola Lookman is on fire at the moment. It's all from the left-hand side by Fulham and Lookman drives into the box.

He smashes it off the inside of the far post and it bounces back out to Aleksandr Mitrovic.

He has an empty net to hit from the rebound but ends up skewing it over the bar from close range.

Had to score!

Andros Townsend fizzes a dangerous cross in from the right. It's punched away by a diving Alphonse Areola.

Fulham try to break down the left but it's dealt with comfortably.

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