FRAIZER CAMPBELL came back to haunt Hull with a dramatic leveller a minute from time.
Substitute Campbell – a former Tigers loanee – headed in Wilfried Zaha’s centre in a thrilling see-saw encounter.
Robert Snodgrass suffered penalty payback – but Adama Diomande and Jake Livermore led Hull’s recovery.
Snodgrass crashed home a controversial 26th-minute penalty after he had gone down to make the most of a challenge by Scott Dann.
The Palace skipper pointed an accusing finger at Snodgrass, but referee Mike Jones had no hesitation in awarding the spot-kick.
But Snodgrass was on the receiving end seven minutes into the second half when he was penalised for a foul on Zaha, and Christian Benteke scored from the spot.
Zaha then produced a wonder goal on 70 minutes, before Diomande levelled only two minutes later and Livermore struck 12 minutes from the end in a frantic passage of play.
Then Campbell had the final word as Palace earned a point the hard way on the day boss Alan Pardew marked his 300th game in Premier League management with a first return to the scene of his infamous touchline head-butt on Hull midfielder David Meyler, when Newcastle were 4-1 winners in March 2014.
Midfielders Ryan Mason and Markus Henriksen were the fall guys for Hull’s 1-0 defeat at Middlesbrough on Monday as Harry Maguire and Tom Huddlestone returned in a reshuffled starting line-up.
The now-ritualistic cries of “We want Allam out’’ – aimed at unpopular club owners Assem and Ehab Allam – were given an airing before a ball was kicked.
Livermore blazed over wildly for the Tigers in the opening moments, but Palace showed how dangerous the pace in their side can be when Zaha zipped into the box in the fifth minute and forced a fingertip save from David Marshall with an angled finish.
But the Palace alarm bells were ringing on 17 minutes when Diomande was put through on goal and only the alert reactions of Wayne Hennessey denied the Hull striker as he tried to lift the ball beyond the keeper.
Palace’s 3-0 home win over Southampton last weekend ended a run of six defeats. By coincidence, Hull also halted a six-match league losing sequence this season with a home victory against the Saints.
These two sides share other similarities – they ship goals at a frightening rate and are especially vulnerable at set-pieces.
So Hull could have done without Snodgrass picking up a cheap booking for bundling over Benteke in the 20th minute and presenting the visitors with a free-kick from a promising position.
Jason Puncheon is always a threat in dead-ball situations, but Hull skipper Michael Dawson has been in commanding form of late and his headed clearance was more than a match.
Maguire suffered a rush of blood as he blasted a shooting opportunity well over before Snodgrass was the central figure in the breakthrough.
Desperate Dann was in a state of disbelief as he pleaded his innocence with the referee after clearly making no contact with Snodgrass in a sliding tackle.
But Jones bought it as the Tigers’attacker went to ground – then stepped up to send Hennessey the wrong way with a convincingly converted spot-kick.
Had Jones seen it differently, Snodgrass – having already been cautioned – would surely have had to make the long walk.
It was strange, then, to see Phelan confronting Jones to make a point as the teams trouped off at half-time.
The City boss certainly had something to complain about when Zaha fell under Snodgrass’s challenge and Benteke rolled in the resultant penalty for his fourth goal in three games as Marshall – like Hennessey – guessed wrongly.
Zaha claimed he was sinned against again in the box on 58 minutes when he went down in a duel with Andy Robertson, but Jones was having none of it this time.
Diomande took a delightful ball from Huddlestone, but fired wide, before making an opening for himself and bringing a low save from Hennessey.
But Zaha’s trickery bamboozled Hull after he collected the ball from a half-cleared corner and rifled right-footed into the roof of the net.
Diomande equalised after turning and nutmegging Dann, and Livermore took a return ball from Snodgrass to put Hull ahead again, but Campbell denied them.
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