Jordan Ayew, Schlupp feature in Crystal Palace defeat to Burnley
24th November 2020
Ghanaian duo of Jordan Ayew and Jeffrey Schlupp featured for Crystal Palace in their 1 nil defeat against Burnley in their English Premier League game played on Monday night.
The two were anonymous in the game for much spells with Jordan Ayew being substituted in the second half in for Christian Benteke in the 77th minute.
While his compatriot Jeffrey Schlupp came on for Dutch man Riedewald in the 67th minute but could do very little to change his team's fortunes.
It was Burnley's first win in the Premier League this season as victory over Crystal Palace at Turf Moor moved them out of the relegation zone.
The Clarets had lost five and drawn two of their first seven games to leave them second from bottom in the table.
Palace were without influential forward Wilfried Zaha after he tested positive for coronavirus, and they missed his contribution in attack.
However, they did have the chance to equalise in the first half with on-loan Chelsea striker Michy Batshuayi just failing to reach an excellent ball by James McArthur before Nick Pope tipped over Andros Townsend's powerful effort.
Burnley should have put the game out of Crystal Palace's reach soon after the restart but Johann Gudmundsson crashed his shot against the crossbar, a miss that almost proved costly soon after when a Dwight McNeil mistake put Batshuayi in on goal but he could not beat Pope.
There was one final chance for Palace to snatch an equaliser but Pope produced a superb save from close range to deny substitute Christian Benteke.
The win moves Burnley up to 17th on five points, one point clear of the relegation zone, while Crystal Palace remain on 13 points in 10th place.