Crystal Palace loved their maiden European journey by seeing off Dynamo Kyiv in Lublin due to targets from Daniel Munoz and Eddie Nketiah.
The Eagles went into the sport – their first in a significant continental competitors – on the again of an 18-game unbeaten run in all competitions and their confidence shone by way of with Kyiv unable to muster a lot of a response.
The ‘house’ facet weren’t helped by having to play the sport on Polish territory as a result of Russian invasion of their homeland.
Munoz’s looping header put Palace in entrance after 31 minutes and Nketiah – the hero of the late win over Liverpool on the weekend – struck once more 13 minutes into the second half.
The one blemish on an in any other case good evening for Palace and boss Oliver Glasner was the useless sending off of Borna Sosa with 14 minutes to go.
Palace boss early phases
Palace have been shortly into their stride and just some effective defending prevented Jean-Philippe Mateta from sliding house Munoz’s low cross after six minutes.
Munoz was inflicting Kyiv issues down Palace’s proper and the Colombia worldwide made the breakthrough shortly after the half-hour mark.
Yeremy Pino floated a cross in from the left and Munoz received above his marker on the far publish to information a header previous Ruslan Neshcheret and into the online. Kyiv would have felt pissed off, nevertheless, because the objective got here once they have been all the way down to 10 males with defender Taras Mykhavko getting therapy after a collision with Maxime Lacroix.
Nescheret denied Palace a second objective earlier than the break with a wise block after Sosa had received on the top of an Adam Wharton move.
Nketiah got here on for Mateta at half-time and made an immediate impression, practically making it 2-0 with a intelligent end after latching on to a different very good Wharton move.
It went to VAR, although, and was disallowed for a good offside.
Nketiah did make his mark a minute later. Pino was the architect with a neat piece of talent and cross and the previous Arsenal striker did the remainder with a crisp end.
Palace have been, by now, in cruise management and Nescheret needed to get down properly to maintain out an Nketiah shot.
Foolish Sosa taints Palace win
Sosa, given a chance at left wing-back in place of Tyrick Mitchell, blotted his copybook with two foolish challenges. The primary reserving got here for a sort out on Shola Ogundana and the second, a minute later, for a mindless barge into Oleksandr Tymchyk.
Dynamo belatedly provided an attacking risk however substitute Vladislav Blanuta shot into the sidenetting and Oleksandr Karavaiev glanced a header straight at Dean Henderson.
Palace held on with ease to the delight of their travelling supporters.
