Kamada gives Palace win but Eze limps off injured

Just as reports started surfacing that Oliver Glasner had until the approaching international break to safeguard a job he started so brilliantly only eight months ago, so Crystal Palace go and win successive games.

- Peter Lansley

Whether this turns out to be a Pyrrhic victory, on a night when they lost Eberechi Eze and Adam Wharton to injury, remains to be seen but Daichi Kamada's goal midway through the second half enabled Palace to reach the quarterfinals of the Carabao Cup for only the second time in 21 years.

Eze had given a strong-looking Palace team the lead before Jhon Durán equalised for Aston Villa but, despite losing two of their best players to first-half injury, Glasner's team rallied to follow up their first Premier League victory of the season on Sunday with this triumph.

They will head back to the West Midlands for a bottom-four clash with Wolves on Saturday in good heart.

Palace had finished last season by thrashing Villa 5-0 and Glasner was being heralded.

But the abject start to this campaign had soon reversed that until this past few days.

The return of Tyrone Mings to the starting line-up after his 445-day absence from first-team action provided Villa with a fillip.

Within half an hour, however, notwithstanding the teams trading a goal apiece, it was withdrawals through injury that was most ailing Palace.