Pierre Sage: Crystal Palace 'really far off' expectations in Lyon defeat

Pierre Sage said Crystal Palace were "really far off" his expectations after suffering a 3-2 Europa League defeat away to his former side Lyon . Corentin Tolisso opened the scoring for the hosts and Ernest Nuamah doubled Lyon's advantage late in a first half void of any shots on target for the visitors. Yéremy Pino cut the deficit in half five minutes after the break before Pavel Sulc restored the two-goal lead, and substitute Daichi Kamada's late goal proved a mere consolation. "At the end, we were frustrated by the result, but in the first half we have to be frustrated in the way we play," Sage said to PalaceTV. "I think we didn't play this first half. We are really far off our standards in the mental side of the play, in the tactical side of the play, because the players are too high between our lines and we really struggled a lot with that. "When you give back the ball to your o