Christian Benteke put a difficult week behind him to score his first goal of the season as Crystal Palace won 3-0 at Leicester City to climb out of the English Premier League's bottom three yesterday.
Wilfried Zaha and Bakary Sako were also on target as the Eagles ended an eight-month wait for an away league victory.
A week after being castigated for ignoring team orders to take and miss a stoppage-time penalty in a 2-2 draw with Bournemouth, Benteke made amends to put Palace in front with a glancing header from Andros Townsend's whipped-in cross.It was Palace's first away goal of the 2017/18 season.
Leicester failed to muster much of a response and were punished for their lacklustre approach five minutes before half time when Benteke played in Zaha, who outfoxed Ben Chilwell before drilling a low shot past goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel.
The hosts did improve after the break and Riyad Mahrez was denied a goal when Palace keeper Julian Speroni made a superb save to keep out the Algerian's powerful low shot.
Vicente Iborra had a headed goal correctly ruled out for a push on the hour-mark and Leicester suffered a further blow a minute later when birthday boy Wilfred Ndidi received a second yellow card for a dive and was sent off...