Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha was left "lost for words" after Brentford scored an 88th-minute equaliser through substitute Yoane Wissa to earn a point at Selhurst Park on Tuesday. 

Zaha, who opened the scoring with a sublime effort from outside the area midway through the second half, was disappointed by his team's decision to sit back and invite pressure, which led to the Eagles dropping points at home for the second time this season. 

"I'm lost for words, man," he told BT Sports post-match. 

"One lapse in concentration, it ruins all the hard work. We literally just had to keep it tight.

"It's like as soon as we went in the lead, we just started to defend. I don't see why we do that. If we just continue pressing on I feel like we could have got a second and ended the game, but we just killed ourselves in the end." 

In the interview, the 29-year-old spoke candidly and believes that Palace should have won all three points. 

This is the second consecutive game in which Brentford have equalised in the last five minutes, and Zaha sees conceding late on in matches as an area the team needs to improve on. 

"I feel our problem right now, that in due time we'll fix, is just the last-minute goals, it just throws away the whole performance. 

"Today is not by far our best performance but a game like that I feel we should leave with all three points."

Brentford head coach Thomas Frank was impressed by Zaha's goal, describing it as a "world-class moment".

"Wow," he said. 

"That action is among the best in the world. Well done to him."

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Frank's side came close to snatching all three points as Ben Mee hit the bar in stoppage time, and the Dane was full of praise for his team's performance. 

"Credit to these players.

"The fans I know they must love every single one of them because the mentality, the determination to keep going, the discipline and understanding, the concentration to change the system, new positions, and produce that unbelievable well-built goal and after that producing two huge chances because we always go for it, we never settle for a point, if we can we want to win. Unbelievable. 

The Dane attributes his side's resilience to the long-term contribution of those behind the scenes and the philosophy that has been implemented at the club. 

"I think it's down to something that is not coming by itself, it's something built over time with many of the same group of players. I've been head coach for almost four years, Brian [Reimer], Kev [O'Connor], Bernardo [Cueva], Manu [Sotelo], Chris [Haslam], Bob [Oteng], all the staff, everyone in the staff, I should mention a lot more, have been here so we build a specific culture, and then, of course, we try to drill in it's all about that path to performance so it's passion, it's attitude, it's togetherness, it's hard work, and that is drilled in everything we do. I am very pleased. 

Wissa was Brentford's hero on the night after coming on as a 79th-minute substitute and is "happy" to open his account for the season as "the first one is always tough".

Since he arrived from Lorient last summer, the 25-year-old forward has developed a knack for scoring important late goals, and he puts it down to perseverance. 

"We know in this league anything can happen in the last minute.

"[We] just keep pushing, keep going forward and we did score and I'm very glad about that because we got a good point from a tough team."