Fans also turned on the players during the game, chanting: "You're not fit to wear the shirt" as they offered little resistance against Palace.
"I'm disappointed and determined to put things right", Wenger said. It's very worrying and disappointing the way we lost the game. "It's damaging of course but top four is hard for us, it is a hard defeat and it has consequences on our chances to be in the top four". We were very disappointed in that dressing room, like the fans are as well because we've let them down tonight.
Wenger continued: "We played with a desire to win the game with an offensive team".
"We knew what we would face".
In fact, it's been 13 years since the side last won the Premier League, whilst their progress in the Champions League has often seen them lose out to superior opposition. "From the start onwards, in the decisive moments of the game, they were sharper".
"The fact that we've lost a few away games: it's really unusual".
"It's really odd because we were for a long time unbeaten away from home. It had an impact on us after the second goal". But now the whole club looks a problem.
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Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher pulled no punches in his assessment.
There was so much to admire about the first half of Wenger's 21 year reign at the club, most notably the Premier League title successes in 1998, 2002 and 2004.
For the rest of the match, both he and Gabriel Paulista surrendered willingly to Benteke and Wilfried Zaha as the rest of the team just looked disinterested.
"What father would want his daughter to bring one of them home?"
The Gunners were so limp for long periods at Selhurst Park that the club's legendary former striker Ian Wright claimed in a tweet that Wenger had lost the backing of his squad.
In contrast, Marca report that Arsenal have made an enquiry for Athletic Bilbao coach Ernesto Valverde, the man said to be a frontrunner to replace Luis Enrique at Barcelona this summer.
Bellerin sought to meet the Arsenal faithful at full-time following the loss but was instead booed, leading to the full-back turning and walking away before being consoled by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
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