Palace vs Ipswich Town: Ipswich Win 3-2 at Selhurst Park
Ended 3-2 to the visitors after Zian Flemming’s late strike at Selhurst Park. Ipswich recovered from a goal down, ended a long away drought, and handed Palace…
SELHURST PARK — Palace vs Ipswich Town ended in a 3-2 defeat for the hosts after the visitors scored late and walked away with their first Premier League away win since April 2025. Zian Flemming forced in the winner in the 90th minute, completing a comeback that changed the mood of the match in one swing.
The result also ended Palace’s perfect week and left them with another painful home loss at Selhurst Park, where they had led and still failed to close the game out. Ipswich, meanwhile, turned a match that looked to be slipping away into one of their most significant results of the campaign.
Palace struck first, then lost control
Crystal Palace opened the scoring through Anan Khalaili, whose shot took a slight deflection off Leif Davis on its way past goalkeeper Kjell Scherpen. Daichi Kamada supplied the square ball before Khalaili finished, and the hosts briefly looked in charge.
That feeling did not last. Ipswich responded through Emersonn, who headed in with Palace switching off after Davis delivered a cross from the left. The visitors then moved in front before half-time when Davis scored with a free header, taking advantage after Axel Disasi was shown a straight red card in the 34th minute for catching Jack Clarke on the shin with his studs.
From there, Palace were chasing the game with 10 men. Ipswich controlled more of the momentum, while Palace pushed and pushed without finding enough clean chances. The late stages brought pressure, but not control.
Late twist at Selhurst Park
Palace did rally. Jørgen Strand Larsen drew them level in the 76th minute with a driven finish across goal after a spell of mounting pressure. For a few minutes, it looked as if the hosts might salvage a point from a match that had already turned messy.
They came close to going ahead too. Ben Chilwell could not keep a volley down in the 87th minute, and Palace kept working the right side through Hughes and Gozo. No breakthrough came. Instead, Ipswich struck again.
Flemming’s 90th-minute goal settled it after a cross into the box, a looping header from Davis hit the post, and Flemming forced the ball home beyond Benítez. The finish put an end to Palace’s resistance. Short. Brutal.
The numbers made the scale of it even clearer. Sky Sports said the goal ended a run of 32 Premier League games — stretching back to December 2001 — in which Ipswich had conceded first and failed to win. It also sealed their first Premier League away win since April 2025, a result that carries real weight after a stretch when they had struggled to turn away games into points.
For Palace, the defeat stung for another reason. Sports Yahoo noted it was the first time they had lost to Ipswich in a Premier League game at Selhurst Park. That is a hard detail to shrug off, especially after a match they led and then let slip, with the crowd left to watch the final minutes drift away as the visitors held on to a result built on sharp finishing and a late edge.
The next big test now sits on the aftermath of this one: Palace must recover quickly from a home defeat that exposed how costly one red card and one lapse can be, while Ipswich leave South London with a late winner and a record they had not managed for nearly a year and a half.
