Palace’s reserves slumped to their second defeat in three matches after a lacklustre match against Gillingham.
The Eagles fielded a couple of new faces, with striker Lloyd Blackman and defender Ricky Dobson both trialling for the club.
But the performances of both sides were below par in a game of few chances, which was won by a Gillingham goal early in the second half.
The Gills went down to ten men with a quarter of an hour to go, but the sending-off was not enough to push Palace towards an equaliser.
Palace XI:
Cedric Berthelin, Jamie.Smith, Garry Borrowdale (Gary Prigent ’46), Sam Togwell, James Gibson, Ricky Dobson, Tom Soares, Ben Watson, Tariq Nabil, Lloyd Blackman, Nathan Simpson