CRYSTAL Palace are out of the FA Cup after suffering a 2-1 defeat to Liverpool this evening.
It looked to have been another memorable game against the Reds after Fraizer Campbell had given Palace the lead at Selhurst Park.
Despite going into the break ahead, it took just four minutes into the second half for the visitors to get back into the tie, when Daniel Sturridge fired home on the volley.
And then Adam Lallana turned out to be the match-winner, tapping home a rebound after Julian Speroni saved Mario Balotelli's free-kick.
Liverpool started the brighter early on but Palace caught them on the counter after ten minutes when Dwight Gayle, utilised on the wing, burst down the left and delivered for Fraizer Campbell but Martin Skrtel came to the rescue.
Yannick Bolasie went down in the box moments later after colliding with Alberto Moreno but the winger was adjudged to have run into the Reds player.
On 15 minutes, the Eagles took the lead thanks to Campbell with his second goal in the space of three days.
Joe Ledley sent a ball over the top, Skrtel's wayward clearance fell to Gayle running in behind him and the striker's header was saved by Simon Mignolet, before Campbell buried the rebound.
The lead was under threat, however, as Adam Lallana's shot from close range was superbly turned around the post by Julian Speroni, before the shot-stopper got his body behind a Philippe Coutinho effort after the midfielder's first effort was blocked by Scott Dann.
Joe Allen volleyed first time a yard the wrong side of the post on the half-hour, while Lazar Markovic and Coutinho fired further efforts in search of an equaliser.
Against the run of play, Gayle should have put the hosts 2-0 up when Bolasie's through-ball cannoned off Skrtel and into the striker's path, but he was denied by Mignolet from close range.
Jason Puncheon came on for Chamakh at the break, and the winger had the first chance of the second half inside 20 seconds when he curled over from the edge of the box.
But Liverpool were on level terms after 49 minutes through Daniel Sturridge, who volleyed in first time from Henderson's pinpoint delivery to beat Speroni low down.
The Eagles went up the other end and Gayle had a goal-bound effort brilliantly saved by Mignolet, but it was the visitors who got the third goal of the match to take the lead.
Substitute Mario Balotelli fired a free-kick through the Palace wall from 20 yards out and Speroni got his body behind it, but the rebound fell nicely for Lallana to score from several yards out.
Pardew sent on Adlene Guedioura for Martin Kelly, with Joel Ward moving to his natural right-back position just past the hour.
Soon after, Wilfried Zaha replaced Bolasie as Palace's third and final change with 18 minutes to go, but Palace's play was flat at this point.
Liverpool were comfortable, making a couple of changes themselves as the clock ticked down. Out of nothing, Ward fired in a cross from the right which Campbell was inches from connecting with, and in the first of five added-on minutes, Gayle fired a free-kick over.
Palace had a free-kick again at the death, but Liverpool managed to clear in the end and Palace's FA Cup run is over.
They return to action next Saturday at home to Arsenal.
Palace: Speroni, Kelly (Guedioura 63), Souare, Hangeland, Dann ©, Bolasie (Zaha 72), Ledley, Ward, Gayle, Chamakh (Puncheon 46), Campbell.
Subs Not Used: Hennessey, Mariappa, Delaney, Murray.
Referee: Robert Madley
Report by Croydon Advertiser sports reporter Mark Ritson
