Crystal Palace vs Man Utd LIVE: Premier League result and reaction as hosts run rampant with four goals

Olise has been linked with a summer switch to Old Trafford and run amok at Selhurst Park with a dazzling display, scoring twice to move on to nine goals in 12 league starts this season.

Two sparkling efforts by Olise in the 12th and 66th minutes bookended this latest superb result for Oliver Glasner’s side, with Jean-Philippe Mateta and Tyrick Mitchell also on target to make it four wins in five for Palace.

Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner to BBC Sport: “I think the first-half performance wasn’t our top level. We gave them too many passes. It was an open game in the first half but we were efficent.

“We didn’t give them any space in defence [after the break]. Second half was really good but first half we could do better. But the score was amazing.

“It was the fourth game in a row where the other team didn’t have 10 shots. This is what we want to do to control the game with a compact defensive shape.

“We know when we get our players in dangerous areas they are able to score goals. We will always be very criticial and look at what we can improve.

“Stay humble. Focus on the details. We struggled with defensive set-pays. They could have scored one or two. We always look at what we can improve.”

More from Erik ten Hag: “You know that, especially when you come to the end. But still, we have nine points to play [for] and we have to fight for the nine points.

“I will keep fighting and I prepared the team in the best way I could do and it was not good enough, by far not good enough. I have to take the responsibility for that, but I will find energy and I will prepare them for Sunday’s game.

“He’s my sounding board, he will be. At the end of the day, I have to do it with the players that are available.

“All season, we have huge problems and by now, this is the fourth defeat in this calendar year, so that’s not a lot and every time, we had huge problems and many times, we sort it out. Today, we didn’t.”

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag speaking to Sky Sports: “It is clear and it is obvious. This is underperforming. We didn’t act how we want to do it and it’s by far not good enough. We are very disappointed, but the fans were always behind us and we keep fighting, like the fans did.

“There are always reasons and everyone sees our backline and we have huge problems. At the end of the day, we have to deal with it and we should have done better than we did.

“There are five players there and that is a goal that shouldn’t happen because we really give clear instructions of how we should defend this. They didn’t bring it on the pitch and we got hammered. But, it was what they showed but also, the left side, there was two players doubling up on one player and so, that is very poor defending.”

Crystal Palace have won three successive Premier League games at Selhurst Park for the first time since October 2022, while they are unbeaten in their last five matches in the league for the first time since April 2022.

This is Crystal Palace’s biggest Premier League win since beating Leeds United 5-1 in April 2023. It is their biggest win at Selhurst Park in the league since April 2018, when they beat Leicester 5-0.

Since Oliver Glasner’s first Premier League game in charge of Crystal Palace on 24 February, Jean-Phillipe Mateta is just the second player in the competition to reach 10 goals, behind Cole Palmer (11).

He has now scored in each of his last six home league games (eight goals), after netting only five goals in his first 37.

Since the start of last season, only Nottingham Forest (five) have lost more Premier League away games by a four-goal margin or higher than Manchester United (three).

The last time Manchester United lost more games in a league season was in 1989/90, when they lost 16 games and finished 13th.

Manchester United sacked their manager in the two seasons they lost 12 matches, 2013/14 and 2021/22. It doesn’t seem as though Erik ten Hag will be in the United dugout next year.