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Full-time! Crystal Palace 2-1 Leeds
They said Palace should have too much for Leeds today … and indeed they did. But only just. A fine game of association football.
Palace move up to 15th.
90 min + 5: After Koch’s foul, Eze tries to catch Meslier off his line with an outrageous effort which drops on to the top of the goal!
90 min + 3: Rodrigo and Harrison link in the Palace box … Andersen manages to nick the ball off Harrison’s foot, as he was about to pull the trigger! Stunning defending from the man already named man of the match. He even has another bite at the cherry as Leeds try again a couple of seconds later. Koch is booked for pulling back Eze.
90 min + 3: Palace win a corner. Leeds manage to deal with it. But they can’t get out of their own half. Paddy Vieira will be very, very happy to see his team camped in the Leeds half right now. He is tantalisingly close to a massive win.
90 min: Five minutes will be added on. Will we see late drama?
90 min: The Crystal Palace defender, Joachim Andersen, is named the most valuable player of this afternoon’s Premier League scrimmage.
88 min: Nearly 3-1, after Eze whips in a free-kick from near the corner flag, and Andersen wins the header but sends his effort over the bar.
87 min: After Gelhardt concedes a free-kick, Eze cracks the resulting set-piece from distance. It’s swerving and powerful and smacks Rodrigo on the head – or rather, Rodrigo bravely jumps to deflect it away from goal.
84 min: Gelhardt and Ayling come on for Leeds: Kristensen and Roca off. I should have mentioned that Bamford went off a while back, replaced by Summerville.
For Palace, Mateta comes on for Eduoard and Hughes replaces Olise.
Cracking goal. The substitute full-back Mitchell, hugging the left touch line, volleys a crisp first-time pass inside to Eduoard. Eduoard gathers the ball and gives it back to Mitchell. Mitchell strokes a lovely pass inside to Zaha this time, who shows wonderful vision to flick it, first-time, to Eze who is lurking on the edge of the box. Eze has time and space to have a shot, but rather than take it immediately, he shows the kind of composure that is often the difference between success and failure at this level … he jinks inside again, beyond the first defender, opening up a clearer sight of goal, and whips a right-footed shot low into the corner that Meslier has no hope of getting close to. The celebrations are suitably enthusiastic. The Eagles are soaring to a much-needed comeback win if it stays like this. Selhurst Park is bouncing!
Goal! 76 min: Crystal Palace 2-1 Leeds (Eze)
It’s there!
75 min: Marsch is about to bring on Klich. It is Brenden Aaronsen who goes off.
72 min: Zaha gives and goes on the edge of the box, playing a one-two with Eduoard. Edouard gets the ball back to him, and Zaha tries a right-footed shot which skews wide. He gestures to his teammate that the return pass wasn’t in the right place, or somehow unsatisfactory for his requirements. It has not been Zaha’s day, but he’s always capable of something outrageous.
Buddies. (Vieira and Marsch, pictured before kick-off.)
69 min: A cross is fizzed over from the Palace right. Meslier gathers. Leeds stream down the field on the counter, and a sliding interception from Andersen stops them in their tracks.
67 min: Harrison bends a free-kick towards goal for Leeds. It bounces harmlessly out for a goal kick.
65 min: Ayew off, Mitchell on for Palace, with Doucoure also coming off and Milivojevic replacing him. Ayew, looking disgusted, takes his bandages off and trudges down the tunnel. Meanwhile West Ham now lead Fulham 2-1.
62 min: Zaha, again, gets time and space on the ball. Kristensen does well to stand him up and block another shot. Zaha’s end product, thus far, has been very disappointing in view of what we know he is capable of.
60 min: Palace attack – Zaha has a shot blocked from the edge of the box – Leeds counter quickly with Bamford in a three-on-three. It comes to nought, but the intensity and pace of the game has shot up again.
58 min: Doucoure is nearly caught in possession in midfield by the swarming Leeds press, but gets away with it. Olise is immediately released on the Palace right wing, cuts inside, and drills a shot goalwards which Meslier is able to gather cleanly. Palace immediately come again and Olise crosses for Eduoard, who heads over the bar. Gaps are appearing all over the pitch.
56 min: No, they won’t settle for a point! Palace roar forward in attack and Eze plays in Ayew, who takes a touch and has a shot blocked from point-blank range. Leeds deal with the corner, although Meslier goes down in a heap after clashing with Schlupp.
55 min: Leeds win a corner. Palace are pinned back for a moment, then Edouard nearly finds Zaha with an audacious flick as the ball is cleared from the Eagles’ back line and they try to counter quickly.
Will both of these sides settle for a point?
52 min: Olise starts a Palace attack from the centre of the pitch, spreading the ball from midfield out to Schlupp on the left, who puts his head down and sprints for the byline. The crowd stirs. But Schlupp sprints to such good effect that he runs out of room, and in attempting to direct a cross into the danger zone from the left wing, succeeds only in chipping it behind the net and out for a goal kick.
48 min: A flash of good old Wilfried Zaha, driving in from the touchline and trying a shot from an angle. It’s low and vaguely in the direction of the near post but it’s no issue for Meslier, however.
An email arrives from ElCapinyoazz: “Re: “Manhattan v Jersey, a pedantic correction from across the pond: Yankee Stadium is not on Manhattan, it’s in the Bronx, hence the Yankee’s nickname of The Bronx Bombers.
“Jesse may yet bomb at Leeds, but he’s surprising the naysayers, who seemed to expect another Bob Bradley, complete with the horror gaffe of calling a penalty a “pee-kay”. Swansea are still terrible, so maybe it wasn’t the gaffers’ choice of vocabulary that was the issue!”
Marsch will be pleased with that road goal from Struijk, anyway.
47 min: Bamford floats a cross from near the corner flag on the Leeds left, looking for Rodrigo, but Guaita claims it safely.
46 min: Ayew had five stitches above his eye during half-time. A painful business, but he is already getting stuck in in this second half, and having more words with his Leeds adversaries.
Second half kick-off!
Let’s go.
Half-time! Crystal Palace 1-1 Leeds
Honours even at half-time and a decent contest all round. Leeds were by far the better team for the first 20, with a goal to show for it, but Palace certainly grew into it as the first half wore on, and a fantastic delivery by Olise from a set-piece provided Eduoard with a chance to score the equaliser. See you in a few minutes for more.
Half-time reading:
45 min + 3: Adams scythes down Eze on the Palace left. Leeds are definitely leaving a foot in here and there. But then again so are Palace. Much more of this and the friendly words between Vieira and Marsch before kick-off will be a distant memory …
45 min + 2: Ayew concedes a free-kick for a foul on Rodrigo, taking a bit of the ball and a lot of the man. There is some afters between Ayew and another Leeds player. You get the strong sense that Ayew isn’t keen on the approach Leeds are taking to the one-on-ones here.
44 min: Ayew’s head is bandaged up. He walks off shaking his head and has a chat with Vieira. He’s not back on yet. Vieira has a glance at his head-dressing and asks him if he is OK. Ayew returns to the action. There will be five minutes added on at the end of this first half.
Ed Aarons is at Selhurst Park:
Jordan Ayew’s head being bandaged heavily after a collision following a corner. Significant delay already but he’s back on his feet
— Ed Aarons (@ed_aarons) October 9, 2022
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