U21 Development League
Crystal Palace U21s 7-2 QPR U21s
PALACE U21s crushed their Queens Park Rangers counterparts on Tuesday lunchtime, coming away with a huge 7-2 victory.
Striker Morgan Ferrier grabbed a hat-trick, while Reise Allassani and Kyle de Silva scored a brace each.
Palace took the lead after just 12 minutes when Allassani drove a ball across the box, and uin wet conditions, it went under Rangers keeper Aaron Lennox for Ferrier to tap home.
Minutes later, Sonny Black headed the ball into Allassani's path and he slipped the ball past Lennox for number two.
Several minutes before the break, Palace made it 3-0 when Black delivered from a free-kick and there de Silva to score.
Palace were cruising, and there were another four goals to come early in the second hald.
Ferrier grabbed his second immediately after the restart, lifting the ball over Lennox.
And then moments later, Ferrier completed his hat-trick when Allassani played the forward in after regaining possession from Rangers' kick-off.
The visitors pulled a goal back when Reece Grego-Cox burst into the area to fire past David Gregory.
However, the young Eagles restored their cushion as de Silva scored his second, going into the box and facing Lennox, but the diminutive midfielder found the bottom corner for number six.
Silva was next to capitalise in the huge gaps in the Hoops' defence to go one-on-one with Lennox and he found the near corner to score his second and Palace's sixth.
Jake Gray added number seven after 80 minutes when he raced into the box after a mistake in Rangers' backline, rounded Lennox and placed into the back of the net.
At the death, QPR scored a second through Ossie Kakay, who found the bottom corner from the edge of the area.
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