Jordan Ayew makes Palace advantage count with winner against Grimsby

With less than two minutes on the clock, Michael Jolley looked up at the heavens and shook his head in disbelief. The Grimsby manager had just seen defender Andrew Fox dismissed – with a little help from the video assistant referee – for a poor tackle on Andros Townsend and faced the prospect of playing almost the entire match against Premier League opposition with 10 men.

But having been to the wilderness of the National League and back since they last visited Selhurst Park in 2003, Grimsby are made of stern stuff and it took until the 86th minute for their resolve to finally be broken by substitute Jordan Ayew’s header from Jeffrey Schlupp’s free-kick.

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