Kamada gives Crystal Palace victory over Aston Villa but Eze injured
Just as reports started surfacing that Oliver Glasner had until the approaching international break to safeguard a job he started so brilliantly only eight months ago, so Crystal Palace go and win successive games. Whether this turns out to be a Pyrrhic victory, on a night when they lost Eberechi Eze and Adam Wharton to injury, remains to be seen but Daichi Kamada’s goal midway through the second half enabled Palace to reach the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup for only the second time in 21 years.
Eze had given a strong-looking Palace team the lead before Jhon Durán equalised for Aston Villa but, despite losing two of their best players to first-half injury, Glasner’s team rallied to follow up their first Premier League victory of the season on Sunday with this triumph. They will head back to the West Midlands for a bottom-four clash with Wolves on Saturday in good heart.
