5 games that cost Alan Pardew his job at Crystal Palace

Swansea 5-4 Crystal Palace (November 26)

You cannot expect to win Premier League matches when you concede five goals away from home.

The Eagles took the lead through Wilfried Zaha early on, and then found themselves 4-3 up with just minutes to go thanks to Christian Benteke’s strike.

However, on both occasions they let Swansea back into it, with poor defending once again to blame for Fernando Llorente’s injury-time brace, which sealed a 5-4 win and a quite extraordinary comeback.

Bob Bradley’s Swans have scored just 20 times in the league this season, which means that a quarter of those goals were against Palace.

The Eagles were hopeless defensively against the Swans, and the defeat was their six successive one in the Premier League, their worst run in three years.

It was a shambolic display, and ultimately signalled the beginning of the end for Pardew.