Jean-Philippe Mateta scored twice as Crystal Palace defeated 10-man West Ham 2-0 at London Stadium to increase their unbeaten run within the Premier League to 5 video games.
After a forgettable first half, Mateta opened the scoring three minutes after the restart as he latched onto a by means of cross from Eberechi Eze and fired low previous West Ham goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski from exterior the field.
West Ham have been diminished to 10 males after Konstantinos Mavropanos acquired a second yellow card within the eightieth minute for a excessive boot on Mateta earlier than the guests sealed the win from the penalty spot.
Substitute Eddie Nketiah was fouled by Fabianski contained in the field and Mateta transformed the spot-kick within the 89th minute to bag his fourth purpose in three league video games.
The London derby victory helped Oliver Glasner’s facet leapfrog West Ham to twelfth place with 27 factors from 22 matches, whereas Graham Potter’s West Ham sit one level behind them in 14th place.
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Mateta and Eze have been as soon as once more instrumental for Palace as they continued their good run of type at London Stadium.
Eze has now offered eight assists for Mateta within the Premier League, with no Palace participant aiding a team-mate extra usually within the competitors’s historical past.
It was additionally the third consecutive recreation by which Eze had bagged an help for Glasner’s facet.
Mateta, in the meantime, is Palace’s prime scorer with eight targets within the Premier League this season and 11 total.
He has now scored 32 league targets for Palace, however the opening purpose right here was the Frenchman’s first to be scored from exterior the field.