22 minutes. Asensio shifts it onto his left from 25 and hits the side netting.
"OOOOOOH."
Then from the same corner, half a second later, 1 voice over the top of all of it.
"IT'S GONE WIDE. IT'S GONE WIDE, YOU MUPPETS."
Hahahaha.
That is a Palace away end. 22 minutes of Real Madrid taking a door off its hinges, and a bloke in row 9 telling 3,000 people to sit down and getting a laugh out of them.
Behind the other goal, 2,000 Spaniards have gone quiet.
They are not sulking. They are working. That is what a Real Madrid away end does at 1-0 down after 20 minutes of pressure. They stop singing and they start watching, and they wait, because they have watched this team come back from worse than this 40 times.
26 minutes.
Marcus leans over my shoulder from the row behind and says 6 words quietly.
"Nobody is holding their back 4."
Marcelo has gone forward 9 times in 26 minutes. Casemiro has not shifted left once.
