Crystal Palace boss Neil Warnock blasted the performance of some players after their third defeat in four games against Ipswich last night.

Danny Haynes' bizarre goal in first-half injury time gave the visitors the three points against an Eagles side who have now scored only once in four games since seeing their 15-match unbeaten run ended by Leicester last month.

While Warnock was keen to praise young guns Lee Hills and Sean Scannell for their performance, he let it be known to some of the more experienced members of his team that they hadn't put in the shift he had expected from them.

He said: "There were one or two of the experienced lads that let us down a little bit tonight.

"I wouldn't blame the forwards, I was disappointed with other departments tonight. Certain players who I have let be known.

"I thought the forwards in the first half had to work off scraps, but I thought second half we were a lot better and got more into the box and created more chances.

"But it's a team game and when you play with six, maybe seven players it's difficult. We only know that if we play with eleven we have a great chance of beating anyone but with six or seven we're going to be a bit short."

Palace did not start badly against the Tractor Boys, who only secured their first win away from home this season last week, but were lucky not to be 2-0 down in the first ten minutes as Alan Lee shot straight at Julian Speroni and Jonathan Walters put a free header inches wide.

The game was scrappy for long periods with Haynes, who was only on the field because Alan Quinn twisted his ankle in the warm-up, giving Danny Butterfield a torrid time down the left-wing.

Palace did liven up before the break and had three good chances to take the lead.

First, Hills tricked his way past Alex Bruce to get to the byline and though his near post cross was cleared, it fell to Scannell who saw his shot blocked.

Ben Watson, who was subbed at half-time, then shot tamely at Stephen Bywater in the Ipswich goal after Scannell's neat back heel set him up.

But the best chance fell to skipper Mark Hudson, who beat the offside trap to wonderfully collect Matt Lawrence's lobbed throughball, but then lost his composure and saw his screwed shot hacked away by Jason De Vos.

The miss was to prove costly as Palace failed to clear a corner just before half-time and Richard Naylor's shot from the edge of the box - whch looked like it was going for a throw-in - seemed to hit Haynes in the face and loop into the top corner.

Palace were lucky not to be down to ten men at the start of the second half as Lee turned Lawrence and put Walters through. However, the forward's run was halted by Speroni as he came rushing out to meet him and tripped him outside the box.

The referee though decided there were enough covering Palace defenders and only awarded the yellow card to the Argentine, much to the disgust of the Ipswich traveling support.

Palace's best chance of an equlaiser fell to Clinton Morrison with twelve minutes left. The hitman just failed to latch on to a Butterfield free-kick on the turn that only needed the slightest touch.

Two minutes later he almost made amends in what proved to be Palace's last chance but saw his shot drift wide from Hudson's knock down.