Crystal Palace’s Luka Milivojevic leaves Newcastle looking over their shoulders

As Crystal Palace’s players and staff exchanged a series of high fives that surely signified the banishment of any lingering relegation worries, the drizzle intensified and the Tyneside sky darkened.

It all felt rather emblematic of Newcastle United’s frustration at the end of an afternoon when Rafael Benítez’s side created the better chances yet came undone on the counterattack and were left ruing the defensive error which led to DeAndre Yedlin conceding the decisive penalty and the serious knee injury which saw Florian Lejeune dispatched to hospital.

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