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Eberechi Eze’s fine late winner has earned Crystal Palace a 2-1 comeback victory over Leeds United in the Premier League.
Palace’s victory came as West Ham also forged back from behind to beat Fulham 3-1 in a London derby on Sunday.
Leeds had opened the scoring at Palace’s Selhurst Park home through Pascal Struijk, who reacted first after Brenden Aaronson’s stunning run and shot had come out off the post.
But Leeds striker Patrick Bamford, starting his first match since August, missed a glorious opportunity to double the visitors’ lead, which proved costly when Palace levelled through Odsonne Edouard’s header in the 24th minute.
Palace were much the better side in the second half but struggled to break down a resolute Leeds, until Eze picked the ball on the edge of the penalty area, threw a dummy and rifled home an 76th-minute winner.
The away side kept coming but could not make their pressure pay, and Palace moved out of the relegation zone and up to 15th in the table, level on nine points with Leeds one place above them.
Meanwhile, West Ham won back-to-back league games for the first time this season with their win at their home London Stadium.
Fulham took an early lead almost out of nothing when Andreas Pereira took the ball into West Ham’s box and blasted the ball from a tight angle past Lukasz Fabianski into the roof of the net.
Pereira then quickly turned from hero to villain when he fouled Craig Dawson in the box at a corner despite repeated warnings from the referee to keep his arms off the defender.
Jarrod Bowen dispatched the resulting penalty and Gianluca Scamacca gave the home side the lead just after the hour mark when he deftly controlled Lucas Paqueta’s lob before applying a cool finish.
Michail Antonio came off the bench to wrap up the win in stoppage time when he profited from a defensive mix-up between Leno and defender Tim Ream.
West Ham moved up to 13th in the standings, a point behind ninth-placed Fulham.
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