By: APOctober 6, 2025 12:57 AM IST 3 min readEverton's Jack Grealish, left, celebrates after scoring his sides second goal during their English Premier League soccer match against Crystal Palace at Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton, England, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (Jacob King/PA via AP)The longest active unbeaten streak in Europe’s top five leagues is over.After 19 games and nearly six months, Crystal Palace has finally lost a game after conceding a stoppage-time goal to fall to a 2-1 defeat at Everton in the Premier League on Sunday.It ended Palace’s club-record undefeated streak, dating back to April 16 when the team was thrashed 5-0 at Newcastle in the league.Since then, Palace has won the FA Cup for its first ever major trophy by beating Manchester City in the final, followed that up by winning the season-opening Community Shield after a penalty-shootout victory over Liverpool, and also won its first ever match in Europe — 2-0 over Dynamo Kiev in Poland on Thursday.Three days later and back in domestic action after a trip east, Palace squandered a lead earned by Daniel Munoz in the first half. Iliman Ndiaye equalized with a penalty and Jack Grealish scored the winner for Everton in the third minute of stoppage time.Palace manager Oliver Glasner said “it hurts really massively today.” “Maybe we need this disappointment,” he added, “to feel this pain to make the next step forward. From the last defeat, we have great learning and we will now do the same.”“We had a similar situation against Liverpool, we could be 3-0 up easily but we were just 1-0 up and then they came back and it was just the same. I think we could be up 3-0 easily and then we make one mistake in defence, penalty 1-1 and then it’s an open game again.Story continues below this ad“So on the other side what we’re missing to be a top Premier League team is the efficiency in our attack because I saw a really top game over 60/70 minutes and this is maybe the step we have to go, the development we have to take. The performance for a very long time was fantastic.“The crowd was here, the stadium was loud and they got the confidence back and then I think it was one situation where it was decided.German champion Bayern Munich is now the team with the longest active undefeated streak, having won all 10 of its matches this season in all competitions.Palace’s previous longest unbeaten streak — 18 matches — came between February and August in 1969.