Jedinak thew his shirt into the crowd following Crystal Palace's 1-0 loss to West Brom at Selhurst Park in their opening game of the Premier League season. It was a gesture many took as a final farewell after five seasons with the Eagles.

The 32-year-old, who was stripped of the captaincy recently, played the full 90 for the home side and was praised for his performance. But Alan Pardew's men were punished for giving away a series of free kicks and corners – the only goal of the match, by Salomon Rondon, coming off a free kick.

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Jedinak spoke to Palace’s official site post-match: "There weren't too many chances in the game but we had a good one in the second half with Wilfried and he was unlucky as the goalkeeper pulled off a good save.

"Then again you know that if you give too many set-pieces away that that's what they bank on, and they took their opportunity and have seen the game out. It's disappointing to start the season the way that we played."

The visitors were able to nullify the Palace attack which included Zaha and new signing Andros Townsend and co.

Jedinak added: "It was a tough game and know what to expect from West Brom," he continued. "They're always going to throw themselves about, not only in the middle but over the whole pitch and they didn't disappoint in that regard.

"We had to counteract that and try and play through them, and we did that well in patches but probably not enough over the 90 minutes and that's why the result was what it was.

"The manager is encouraging us to play out from the back and through the lines, and if it's on to play long balls to Connor or to the wingers.

"We knew that they like to squeeze the pitch so today we tried to get it out as quick as possible to the wide men and try and isolate their full-backs one-one-one, which we did OK but they're well drilled and they doubled up on our wingers quite a lot."