Crystal Palace 2 Cardiff City 0: match report

 

Crystal Palace's recovery under Tony Pulis picked up further velocity with an impressive second win in five days.

An early strike from Cameron Jerome and a second from Marouane Chamakh were sufficient to sink a woeful Cardiff side who have now not won in five matches – and not scored for four and a half hours.

Victory sees Palace level on points with West Ham though with an inferior goal difference but the momentum is with Pulis’s men, who kept their fourth clean sheet in five games.

Pulis, though, was happy to turn the spotlight on his goalscorers.

“Those two have been brilliant. They have given everyone in the team a lead in respect of the way they worked. I thought Chamakh was wonderful today and when Cameron does what he’s good at he’s a threat to anybody,” he said.