WOLVERHAMPTON, England (Reuters) -Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha created the opener after which netted a penalty as his aspect’s glorious first half show meant they declare a deserved 2-0 victory at Wolverhampton Wanderers within the Premier League on Saturday.
Zaha arrange striker Jean-Philippe Mateta for the primary aim after 19 minutes after which dispatched a great spot kick to double the benefit because the guests dominated the opening interval earlier than weathering a rally by the hosts after the break.
It was a 3rd successive defeat for Wolves, who stay in eighth place on 40 factors from 27 video games however are seeing their probabilities of European soccer subsequent season diminish by the week. Palace climbed to tenth with 33 factors from 28 matches.
“It was a extremely good efficiency from the primary minute till the final one,” Palace supervisor Patrick Vieira mentioned. “We performed properly, we labored laborious. We have been courageous, we put them underneath strain, we created probabilities.
“The first half was among the finest since I’ve been right here. In the second half we bought somewhat bit drained. The final 20-Half-hour it was laborious to get out of our half.
“I’m happy with the character we confirmed. It is necessary we hold constructing on this momentum.”
Palace hit the entrance as Zaha broke free on the fitting, and his low cross from the byline was met at the close to publish by Mateta. The striker’s preliminary effort was blocked, however he reacted quickest to the unfastened ball to rating.
Max Kilman’s blatant foul on Jeffrey Schlupp then handed the guests a penalty, and Zaha made no mistake from the spot.
Wolves, who subsequent host Watford on Thursday, improved within the second half however couldn’t discover a method again into the sport. Palace don’t play once more till they host Manchester City on March 14.
“The method we conceded the targets, it’s laborious to settle for, a group that doesn’t concede too many probabilities, we’re stable. And you then look at the targets now we have conceded within the final three video games, it was really easy,” Wolves supervisor Bruno Lage instructed the BBC.
“Second half it was somewhat bit totally different, we performed higher, created probabilities, however didn’t rating targets. If we scored perhaps we had time to change the sport, however we did not.”
(Reporting by Nick Said; Editing by Hugh Lawson and Ken Ferris and Christian Radnedge)
