Aston Villa boss Tim Sherwood was happy to give Adama Traore his debut in defeat at Crystal Palace.

Sherwood thought his substitute had turned the game in his side's favour when Pape Souare diverted Traore's cross into his own net to cancel out Scott Dann's header.

Then Jordan Amavi gifted possession for Scott Dann to lay on Bakary Sako's winner.

Sherwood said: "What you see is what you get with young players, you saw Traore light it up, he's got no fear.

"On the flip side you see a young boy and outstanding player in Amavi make the wrong decision at the wrong time to take someone on that late in game, and unfortunately we came away with nothing.

"We created chances and unfortunately we were unable to take them.

"Palace came out a better side in the second half. They scored, we managed to wrestle our way back in, (so) to lose with three minutes to go was devastating.

"They didn't have to work hard for both goals."