Xhaka gets a stupid yellow card. Who'd have guessed it?

Getting way too close in that last 10 mins.

Dropped off a little bit after the goal, but Crystal Palace aren't easy to play against. Heard a stat that the only team that took more points tham then from the big six last season was Man City and Liverpool. They only lost four home games. But overall, it was a good first half from us. We started with exactly the kind of hunger and energy you want to see.

We are taking too long to clear the balls in the last 10 minutes. Unnecessary pressure coming back at us.

Another excellent save from Ramsdale, thought that was a goal. Not an encouraging start here

And another. Well done indeed.

Brilliant from Ramsdale. I don't like the way the second half has started, too much pressure.

So far tonight Saliba looks like our best centre back

Looking forward to all dives outside of the box getting yellow cards this season

Vieira's got a decent side. Fairly organized.

Ødegaard has to shoot there

...still want us to get a 2nd goal to put it to rest. We are playing very organized pressing football and the commentator said it was difficult for sides to score at Selhurst Park.

12 fouls for Palace no yellows
7 fouls for Arsenal 2 yellows

Some things never change

Need something to change, maybe get Nketiah on. Ødegaard is not having a good game

4 fouls for Ayew so far.
I recall Xhaka being booked for persistent fouling for his first foul last season in one game!

As you say…

…some things never change

Infamy, infamy, they’ve got it in for me.

Zinchenko getting caught out a bit. Could bring Tierney on for Ødegaard and push Zinchenko in to midfield and get more control in midfield

Saliba looks like a giant in defense, immense potential

Taylor's freekick against Partey has to be looked into surely?

We’re a bag of nerves. Got to get our defence up the pitch and get someone brave enough to get their foot on the ball and keep it!

Can we have our ball back?

Phew. Thank goodness for that!!!

Another goal was really needed.

Saka!!! That has to be the three points

Phew ...we'll do well to get a win here , they are giving us a real examination

I knew that would inspire us

2-0! Own goal

So so so needed

Yes!!

Good to see Tierney back on the pitch again.

And great singing for Vieira.

And Saliba gets MOTM award on his Premier League debut.

Saliba man of the match?

Truly excellent result in a banana skin opening fixture.

Three good points away from home. Good job.

This is so *%^@*** sweet!!!!!
Zaha you c a n t!
We were under the cosh for a bit boy did we need that second!!!
Saliba was bloody excellent. What a performance.

Hard fought victory against a very difficult team in the end. The first 30 minutes encapsulated everything with how we want to play, and I feel a lot of our problems are on the mental side of things. You could see it as soon as we scored and immediately dropped down a level; lower energy, we didn't press them enough, struggled to keep control of the ball. It looked like we were more worried about protecting the lead than scoring another. This is something you don't see with Liverpool and Man City, when they score they just keep going with the same intensity, and I'm waiting for this to click for our players too and for them to realize that we're the much better team and if we just keep playing the way we want to play we'll dictate the game and they'll struggle to contain us.

But three big points to start the season, I like being able to watch the rest of the matches knowing we've done our job and it's up to our rivals to keep up.

We started electric!!!!
Then palace came back into it but we held firm and got thr break of the 2nd goal.
We deserved that and sweet revenge for that 3 0 in April.
I cannot stand zaha.
That permanent annoying scowl on his face and such a thorn in our side for too many games
Jesus ,zinchenko are going to be brilliant signings.
Ramsdale made 2 excellent saves but has to cut out the dawdling on the ball.
Could cost us and unnecessarily spreads nervousness.
. Great to start with 3 points. Bloody.great!!!

Yay!
Winning start
Clean sheet
Onwards we go!

Man of the Match

Palace had something like the 5th best home record in the league last year. I’m sure palace will take points off some of the other top 6 sides at home this season.

Away wins in this league really are like gold dust.

Bit scrappy in the end but that first 30 minutes showed what we can do. Really pleased with the clean sheet as well, important for the team to build those clean sheets and not give away easy goals even when the game is won.

Great result. Fantastic first half an hour.

After that we completely lost control of the game which was very disappointing. That happened too many times last season. Not sure why it happens but we need to find an answer if we want to do anything this season. Maybe we could have brought on Lokonga.

Saliba was excellent, Ramsdale made a couple of superb saves. Jesus was dazzling for half and hour and had a very good game overall.

Some may disagree but I thought White was poor and Ødegaard was awful. His inability to find a man when under pressure (normally his strong point) gifted Palace possession too many times.

Zinny was exposed a bit defensively and I thought things improved greatly when Tierney came on.

This really is a great part of winning the first game of the weekend. Sit back and relax and enjoy the struggles of others.

Also with these scrappy wins you know our rivals fans would have built up huge hopes for that Palace equaliser at the end and they’ll be gutted

I thought Conor Gallagher was Palace best player last season and I wondered how they'd do without him. Doucoure looks like a very good signing though, thought he was excellent today.