Wilfried Zaha makes impact as Crystal Palace beat Southampton

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Wilfried Zaha put speculation about his future behind him to fire Crystal Palace to an opening-day victory over Southampton&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The winger needed 13 games to get off the mark last season&comma; but achieved the feat after only 13 minutes at Selhurst Park and it was enough to give Roy Hodgson’s men a 1-0 win&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Vicente Guaita’s excellent close-range save from Che Adams in the 53rd minute was the closest Southampton went with Danny Ings nullified by a makeshift Palace defence due to the Eagles missing seven first-teamers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">🙌 What a way to get his 50th league goal for Palace&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;CPFC&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;CPFC<&sol;a> &vert; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;CRYSOU&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;CRYSOU<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;NF2tXq4De3">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;NF2tXq4De3<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Crystal Palace F&period;C&period; &lpar;&commat;CPFC&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;CPFC&sol;status&sol;1304787023149047808&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">September 12&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It could have been worse for the visitors had referee Jonathan Moss not downgraded his decision to send off Kyle Walker-Peters at the start of the second half&comma; but despite keeping 11 players on the pitch&comma; Ralph Hasenhuttl’s side failed to fire in the capital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hodgson resisted the temptation to start new signings Ebere Eze and Michy Batshuayi after both had hardly featured in pre-season and named them on the bench&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Southampton&comma; who were one of the form teams once football resumed last season&comma; were without Stuart Armstrong and it offered Will Smallbone an opportunity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was the Saints who started strongest and dictated possession&comma; but they conceded after 13 minutes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>James McCarthy won possession and released Andros Townsend down the right and he was able to produce a telling cross to Zaha at the back post&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With Southampton’s full-backs caught up the pitch&comma; the Ivory Coast international side-footed home from eight yards past Alex McCarthy to open his account for the season&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Scott Dann was Palace’s only recognised centre-back in the XI due to injuries and he almost made it 2-0 with a header from James McCarthy’s corner after 26 minutes but Saints’ goalkeeper saved well to his left&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hasenhuttl made a change at half-time with defender Yannick Vestergaard introduced for Jan Bednarek and at the other end of the pitch&comma; Southampton tested Guaita for the first time 60 seconds into the second period&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Neat passes between Ings and Adams saw Nathan Redmond presented with a chance&comma; but he could only fire straight at Palace’s goalkeeper from inside the area&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The pitchside monitor was needed not long after when Walker-Peters caught Palace left-back Tyrick Mitchell with a high challenge in the 49th minute&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Referee Moss originally showed a red card for the Saints full-back before he had a second look and downgraded the decision to a yellow card&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Southampton were denied an equaliser with 53 minutes on the clock when Guaita produced a superb point-blank save to deny Adams from close-range&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Palace&comma; with midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate at centre-back alongside Dann&comma; were able to regroup though and the next opportunity for the visitors was 20 minutes later but captain James Ward-Prowse curled a free-kick over&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Zaha had the ball in the net again during the final exchanges&comma; 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