Relegation-threatened Burnley staged an extraordinary first-half fightback to beat Crystal Palace and claim their first Premier League victory in 17 matches.<\/p>\n
The Clarets had failed to win in the top flight since overcoming Wolves on 26 October, and they appeared to be heading for another bruising evening after two first-half Jorgen Strand Larsen goals had put Palace firmly in the driving seat.<\/p>\n
Strand Larsen, making his first appearance at Selhurst Park since joining from Wolves in a club-record deal in January, slammed Adam Wharton’s lofted pass beyond Martin Dubravka to put the Eagles ahead after 17 minutes.<\/p>\n
The Norwegian striker then netted his and Palace’s second shortly after the half-hour mark, directing a brilliant header into the far corner from Jefferson Lerma’s outswinging cross.<\/p>\n
Burnley failed to register a shot on target in the opening 39 minutes of the game, but Scott Parker’s side finished the half in scarcely believable fashion, scoring three goals in seven minutes to take a 3-2 lead into the break.<\/p>\n
Hannibal Mejbri reduced the arrears with a sweetly struck, first-time shot from Marcus Edwards’ cut-back, before Jaidon Anthony guided a low drive inside the near post to restore parity four minutes later.<\/p>\n
The ball appeared to strike Burnley midfielder Lesley Ugochukwu on the arm in the build-up to the Anthony’s effort, but despite Palace’s protests the goal was allowed to stand.<\/p>\n
The Clarets’ astonishing turnaround was complete in first-half stoppage time when Henderson parried Bashir Humphreys’ header on to the foot of Lerma, who was unable to prevent the ball trickling over the line for an own goal.<\/p>\n
Palace, who arrested a 12-match winless run with victory at rivals Brighton on Sunday, dominated possession in the second half without properly testing Dubravka in the Burnley goal.<\/p>\n
But they should have equalised when the unmarked Daichi Kamada met Daniel Munoz’s cross at the far post, only to turn his header wide of the target from close range.<\/p>\n
Martin Dubravka also produced a stunning save to deny Ismaila Sarr with virtually the last kick of the game, parrying the Senegal international’s effort out of harm’s way to secure a precious three points for Burnley.<\/p>\n
Glasner’s team stay 13th, while Burnley are now nine points adrift of safety with 12 matches left to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Relegation-threatened Burnley staged an extraordinary first-half fightback to beat Crystal Palace and claim their first Premier League victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-463417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}