Crystal Palace cruised to a routine 3-0 win at Shelbourne to spice up their hopes of a top-eight end within the Conference League.
Fourth within the Premier League, the Eagles have produced some underwhelming shows in Europe, struggling two defeats.
However the event favourites had far an excessive amount of for Shelbourne in Dublin, with the Irish aspect nonetheless awaiting their first aim within the competitors this season.
Objectives from Christantus Uche, Eddie Nketiah and Yeremy Pino sealed the factors for Palace, who’re only a level outdoors the highest eight with a sport to play.
Palace face KuPS of their league section finale subsequent Thursday. Three points ahead of 25th-placed KuPS with a four-goal advantage in goal difference, they’re all however assured of a spot within the knockout rounds, however they are going to be determined to clinch a top-eight spot and keep away from the playoff spherical.
Crystal Palace cruise previous Shelbourne
Palace wanted solely 11 minutes to interrupt the impasse when Nketiah pulled again for Uche to fit in on the finish of a tremendous transfer from the guests.
Glasner’s males unsurprisingly continued to pour ahead and, after Adam Wharton had been denied by Wessel Speel, Nketiah doubled the lead.
Uche was unlucky to not double his tally as he hit the put up after sliding in to fulfill Pino’s intelligent throughball, however Nketiah was there to faucet in from point-blank vary.
A number of extra probabilities went begging for Uche, and Chris Richards hit the bar with a header from a nook earlier than Pino put the sport past doubt earlier than half-time.
Pino surged by way of a gaping void within the Shelbourne midfield and let fly from simply inside the realm to search out the bottom-left nook with an unstoppable low drive.
Palace had alternatives to pile on the ache within the second, Richards and Romain Esse every going shut, the latter seeing an effort strike the within of each posts and one way or the other keep out earlier than Uche lashed over the crossbar when by way of on aim.
The failure to make the scoreline extra emphatic mattered not, with the comfy nature of the victory very useful for Palace as they averted exerting themselves an excessive amount of forward of Sunday’s conflict with Manchester City.
