Premier League: Zaha shines again for Palace

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Crystal Palace 2 - 1 Wolves 

Wilfried Zaha scored a well-taken winner to seal Crystal Palace's terrific turnaround against managerless Wolves. 

Crystal Palace 2 - 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers

Picture from Flickr: Credit - Ben Terrett

Before the Zaha show, Adama Traore's header had earned the visitors a deserved half-time lead. This was almost doubled when Ruben Neves hit the post right on the stroke of half-time at Selhurst Park. 

The game started to look very different once the second half had started. Palace never looked back once Eberechi Eze nodded them level from Michael Olise's pinpoint cross just 63 seconds into the second half. Zaha then took Odsonne Edouard's pass in his stride before drilling past Jose Sa for his fifth goal of the season to lift Palace up to 10th place in the Premier League table. 

Wolves remain 17th and just one point above the relegation places. They came close to rescuing a point in London but Neves' late strike was superbly beaten away by Palace goalkeeper Vicente Guaita.

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Crystal Palace's official Twitter account made this cheeky post after the match finished.

One Palace fan replied: "Crystal Palace is a good team. I think we could qualify for next season's Europa League."

Another added: "Slow down. Smallsteps. Only be good enough if win a cup or top 5. A bit to go yet but let's hope they do."

This is what Wolves posted after the match finished.

Looking at the responses, it is clear that many Wolves fans are very negative about their club at the moment. One posted: "Imagine my shock!" 

Reaction from those involved

Zaha spoke with the BBC and other media outlets after the match. He was clearly delighted with the result and performance: "We had to dig deep - we were playing well in the first half but the goal was a massive blow, We had to keep going. This is what it takes in the Premier League - we knew we had it within us and we got what we deserved."

Steve David, Caretaker manager of Wolves, told the club website: "I think if we’d have started the second-half better, I think it would have been a different result. I didn’t think we took out what we put into the first-half in the second period. We started very slow, they put us under pressure, we didn’t regroup at that point.

Crystal Palace 2 - 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers

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