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Crystal Palace vs West Ham United. Premier League.

12:30pm, Saturday 29th April 2023.

Selhurst ParkAttendance25,148.

Crystal Palace 4

J Ayew (15th minute)
W Zaha (20th minute)
J Schlupp (30th minute)
E Eze (66th minute pen)

West Ham United 3

T Soucek (9th minute)
M Antonio (35th minute)
N Aguerd (72nd minute)

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Crystal Palace 4-3 West Ham: Eagles edge seven-goal thriller to reach 40-point mark

Match report and highlights as Crystal Palace's attacking excellence overcomes defensive frailties in West Ham thriller; Eagles close to Premier League safety with 11-point gap to bottom three; Hammers not yet safe after successive defeats; watch free highlights from 5.15pm on Sky Sports

Jack Wilkinson

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Sunday 30 April 2023 08:04, UK

Roy Hodgson believes Crystal Palace have lifted themselves out of the relegation battle after they edged closer to mathematical safety with a thrilling 4-3 victory over West Ham at Selhurst Park.

Palace produced a scintillating response to Tomas Soucek's early opener as Jordan Ayew, Wilfried Zaha and Jeffrey Schlupp struck in the space of 15 first-half minutes to seize control of the game, but the Eagles' vulnerability at set-pieces would repeatedly offer West Ham lifelines.

After Michail Antonio reduced the deficit from a corner before the break, Palace restored their two-goal lead midway through the second half, with Eberechi Eze winning and converting a penalty. But back came West Ham again, with Nayef Aguerd nodding in to atone for his foul on Eze and set up a grandstand finale.

West Ham's potency at set-pieces was not matched by their overall attacking output, though, as Palace held on for a first Premier League win in three which lifts them up to 11th in the table and sees Roy Hodgson's side reach the coveted 40-point mark with four games to play. West Ham remain 15th, five points clear of the relegation zone with five games left to guarantee safety.

"Before you start asking the question, yes, I think we are safe!" Hodgson said.

"We are where we are purely because we have good players, the club's recruitment has been so good in rejuvenating the team I worked with previously. The club can look forward to a platform where they can hope to push forward."

Player ratings

Crystal Palace: Johnstone (6), Ward (6), Andersen (6), Guehi (6), Mitchell (6), Schlupp (7), Doucoure (6), Eze (8), Olise (6), Zaha (7), Ayew (6).

Subs: Milivojevic (n/a), Edouard (5).

West Ham: Fabianski (5), Coufal (4), Zouma (5), Aguerd (6), Emerson Palmieri (4), Soucek (7), Rice (6), Bowen (5), Lucas Paqueta (5), Fornals (4), Antonio (7).

Subs: Ogbonna (5), Cresswell (5), Benrahma (5), Ings (5), Cornet (n/a).

Man of the match: Eberechi Eze

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Palace edge seven-goal West Ham thriller as safety nears

After a 15-minute delay to kick-off due to turnstile issues at Selhurst Park, Crystal Palace started as though they were making up for lost time in attack but paid the price for being careless in defence as West Ham took the lead. Michael Olise's poor defensive header from a corner fell for Soucek, who lashed in his third goal of the season from 12 yards.

Palace's response was swift and ruthless, with Ayew firing a shot in at the near post to restore parity five minutes later before Zaha, making his first since April 1, hooked in at the back post to complete the turnaround on 20 minutes.

West Ham's loss of defender Kurt Zouma to injury was compounded two minutes later when Schlupp dispossessed the dithering Soucek and raced clear before slotting in Palace's third.

But Palace's frailty at dead balls came back to haunt them as Antonio reduced the arrears with a close-range header after Soucek had flicked a corner on at the near post.

Palace were aggrieved not to be awarded a penalty in first-half stoppage time after Zaha was hauled down in the area by Vladimir Coufal, but referee Craig Pawson did point to the spot on 66 minutes after Aguerd was adjudged to have tugged Eze as he raced through on goal.

After a VAR review Eze stepped up and sent Lukasz Fabianski the wrong way as Palace established a 4-2 lead. It would last just six minutes, with Soucek flicking another corner on at the near post for Aguerd to bundle into the Palace net, but it proved too little, too late for the below-par Hammers to stage a comeback.

Palace complete West Ham double - Opta stats

Crystal Palace have completed the Premier League double against West Ham for the third time (also in 2013-14 and 2019-20), while they've scored four goals against the Hammers for the first time in all competitions.
There has been 80 goals in Crystal Palace's 24 Premier League games against West Ham (F37 A43), an average of 3.3 goals per game. Among teams they've played at least 10 times, only the Eagles' games against Liverpool have seen a higher such ratio in the competition (97 goals in 28 games - 3.5 per game).
Crystal Palace have come from behind to win seven Premier League games this season, their most such victories in a single campaign in the competition.
West Ham have lost a Premier League game having scored three goals for the sixth time, however it's their first such defeat away from home with all five of the previous occasions coming at Upton Park.
All three of West Ham's goals against Crystal Palace were from corners, the first time they've netted three or more such goals in a Premier League game since March 2019 against Huddersfield.

FPL stats


Goals	Ayew, Zaha, Schlupp, Eze, Soucek, Antonio, Aguerd
Assists	Olise, Soucek (2)
Bonus points	Soucek (3), Eze (2), Schlupp, Antonio (1)

Hodgson: Palace have makings of great team

Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: "Before you start asking the question, yes, I think we are safe! The players showed incredible energy. I couldn't be more delighted with how my players overcame the slaps in the face that we got after taking a two-goal lead.

"You've got to develop an incredible resilience to be a top-class footballer. What I see in this group is the makings of a very good team and a large streak of resilience and determination.

Moyes slams VAR handling of penalty

West Ham manager David Moyes: "VAR has prided itself on not giving soft penalty kicks away this year, but that would go down as a very soft penalty.

"I'm more frustrated by the way we played the whole game. We didn't play well, Palace showed more quality, played better. Over the years I've prided myself on my teams being pretty hard to beat and play against, today we weren't hard to beat or play against. That is the most galling bit for me.

"But two huge decisions have gone against us this week which could have meant we didn't lose the points. It's fine lines at the moment between us getting something from games and not."