Zaha Returns In Thriller As Palace Hand Defeat To West Ham

The followers had been handled to an exquisite afternoon of leisure within the sunshine because the Eagles turned on the model to make it 4 wins in six video games below Hodgson.

TIME/ DATE/ VENUE

• 12.30pm
• twenty ninth April 2023
• Selhurst Park, Holmesdale Highway, London SE25 6PU

RESULT

Crystal Palace 4-3 West Ham United

PLAYER RATINGS

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES – 5 James TOMKINS, 8 Albert Sambi LOKONGA, 13 Vicente GUAITA, 14 Jean-Philippe MATETA, 19 Will HUGHES, 26 Chris RICHARDS, 44 Jairo RIEDEWALD

OPPOSITION LINE-UP

UNSED SUBSTITUTES – 10 Manuel LANZINI, 12 Flynn DOWNES, 13 Alphonse AREOLA, 24 Thilo KEHRER

TEB VERDICT

Neglect the defending from corners for a second, however had been we not entertained at Selhurst Park? A blistering first half was paying homage to a boxing match with every workforce taking turns to strike a blow with assault after assault. Fortunately, the Eagles reacted to going a go down early in sensible style to go in on the break with the lead.

The victory was sealed by a considerably lucky penalty resolution the place Zaha handed the ball to Eze who dispatched with aplomb into the nook.

Nonetheless, the hosts had been absolutely deserving of all three factors because the hyperlink up play all through the workforce was of a really excessive normal and the guests simply couldn’t cope. The one concern on  sunny after (apart from the digital ticketing system not working inflicting chaos on the turnstiles) was the very disappointing defending of corners, with all three West Ham targets coming from nook kicks. That’s definitely one thing to work on however let’s not take something away from this efficiency.

The victory sees Palace climb above Chelsea and into 11^th place within the Premier League.  With Fulham nonetheless to play and solely 5 factors forward in 10^th, maybe we are able to hunt them down with a robust end to the season?

BOB’S POINT OF VIEW

Bob White was a coach at Palace below the tenure of Steve Coppell and Alan Smith and will likely be sharing his perspective every week in our assessment article.

“The early omens didn’t look good with the pre-match fiasco on the turnstiles that means a 15 minute delay to kick off after which going a aim down inside 10 minutes.

So let’s get the negatives out of the way in which first. Our defending at corners, notably within the first defensive man place was very poor permitting the Hammers to attain all of their three targets. That aside they threatened our defensive unit on only a few events in open play. Nonetheless, that will sound churlish while we witnessed an entertaining seven aim thriller with our workforce producing among the finest attacking shows seen at Selhurst for fairly a while.

Our passing was progressive, urgent the opposition in all areas of the pitch and ceaselessly creating quite a few goal-scoring alternatives. It was mirrored within the general statistics. Fifteen makes an attempt on aim mixed with 60% possession confirmed that we well-deserved all three factors.

There have been quite a few glorious particular person performances – Eberechi Eze, Jeffrey Schlupp and Jordan Ayew amongst them. Nonetheless, my man of the match award goes to Cheick Doucoure – an imperious efficiency within the engine room. It says one thing when their key participant Declan Rice was nameless for the entire sport.

So we lastly obtain that key 10 wins in a season mark and the 40 level whole managers of groups within the decrease areas of the league like to succeed in as quickly as attainable to ensure Premier League standing. All credit score to Roy Hodgson, his workers and gamers. A complete of 13 factors gained from our final 6 video games mixed with some very respectable performances has definitely improved the temper of everybody together with followers linked to our membership.

Let’s now see if we are able to end the season on a excessive. Up the Palace!”

POST GAME QUOTES

ROY HODGSON

 “It was an exquisite first half from our perspective, we performed rather well, did all of the issues we hoped we might do and our high quality gamers produced.

High quality to West Ham to maintain coming down from two targets behind, they’ve had a busy schedule and it was unimaginable what they had been capable of do from set items, conserving the sport alive”

Generally there are one or two too many flicks, however they had been good right this moment, the targets we scored right this moment had been good targets. We saved sustaining attackers after which successful the ball again so nicely once they cleared it.

If you happen to’re going to grow to be a very good attacking workforce you are able to do you’re employed and get the patterns of play the way you need however with out the standard of the gamers no one notices it. The way in which we’ve labored right here is strictly the identical as we did 4 years in the past, however now the membership is ready up with a stronger arrange than earlier than.” 

DAVID MOYES

“We didn’t begin the sport notably nicely, might have been the fast turnaround and having a day lower than Palace to arrange. We scored and gave ourselves one thing to construct on. We scored good targets from set items however general we obtained what we deserved however I do count on our groups to defend higher than that and through the years we now have carried out. At present I used to be actually upset with how we defended. Their entrance gamers performed rather well and had been a handful all sport. We didn’t win the second balls fairly often and we allowed Palace to get management within the sport.”

MATCH STATISTICS

POSITION IN THE TABLE (on the last whistle)

UPCOMING FIXTURES

06/06/23 Tottenham Hotspur (a) – Premier League (3pm)

13/05/23 Bournemouth (h) – Premier League (3pm)

20/05/23 Fulham (a) – Premier League (3pm)

28/05/23 Nottingham Forest (h) – Premier League (4.30pm)