Creative midfielder Eberechi Eze provided a fitting summary of Crystal Palace‘s 4-3 win over West Ham United last week. The Palace No. 10 struck what eventually proved to be the winning goal when he won and converted a penalty kick midway through the second-half.
Prior to that, Palace had fallen behind early on but hit back to take a two-goal lead over their visitors, as Jordan Ayew, Wilfried Zaha – on his return from injury – and Jeffrey Schlupp found the back of the net, but the deficit was reduced shortly before half-time.
Nayef Aguerd squeezed home a late goal to set up a tense finale, but Palace held on to secure their fourth win in their six games under Roy Hodgson, the three points seeing them hit the 40-point mark and leapfrog Chelsea into 11th.
Speaking to BT Sport, Eze beamed: “It was absolute madness, we worked hard and gave everything. They’re good at set pieces but we did all we could and we’re happy to get the three points.
“We’re thriving under Roy – we’re creative and positive when we have the ball.
“I think it’s a credit to all of us. We’re all working so hard on the processes, not just the results, trying to improve and get better. We’re just happy to get the three points.
“Our main aim is to keep winning, keep improving on the performances, and see where it takes us.”
Ebere Eze says Palace’s focus paid off after defeat at Molineux, with the belief that their performance after the break warranted a point against Wolves.
“We worked hard – the second-half was very good. You don’t want to concede early like that but we kept going, we kept playing our stuff and we create opportunities, but it wasn’t our day.
“We just had to focus on our own performances. We know if we keep performing like that we are going to get points. We are not fearful, we are brave, and we know that we can win games and we’ve shown that in the last few weeks.”
Eze reiterated that the players were thriving under Roy Hodgson despite a first defeat in his second spell as manager.
“He has given us belief and confidence in ourselves to play how we can,” Eze said. “It has shown in our performances. We know with games like that there are opportunities and chances we can take.”