Crystal Palace follow up their Cup success by reaching highest ever point tally
Eddie Nketiah scored twice with Ben Chilwell and Eberechi Eze also netting
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By KIERAN GILL
Published: 17:25 EDT, 20 May 2025 | Updated: 17:29 EDT, 20 May 2025
The FA Cup party resumed at Selhurst Park and it was amid this SE25 knees-up that yet more history was made, with Crystal Palace striker Eddie Nketiah bagging a brace to help the club to their greatest-ever Premier League points total.
Never before had Palace broken the 50-point barrier, but they are now on 52 after coming from behind to beat Wolves, and as their supporters delighted in singing from start to finish, a European tour awaits next season after their exploits at Wembley Stadium.
Palace fans rocked up with all the items one would expect to find in an FA Cup champions starter kit. There were home shirts with ‘Winners’ and ‘25’ printed on the backs, inflatable trophies, red and blue balloons, you name it. They delivered one of the loudest renditions of ‘Glad All Over’ heard here before chants of ‘England’s No 1’ followed for Dean Henderson.
Henderson was one of only five players in Palace’s line-up who also started at Wembley, with manager Oliver Glasner naming Eberechi Eze and Jean-Philippe Mateta as substitutes.
Wolves boss Vitor Pereira followed suit, making six changes himself after spying this trip as an opportunity to analyse certain players ahead of next season.
That included him dropping Matheus Cunha, who is expected to sign for Manchester United for £62.5million this summer. Despite Cunha sitting on the bench, the visitors opened the scoring in the 24th minute when Emmanuel Agbadou headed in from a corner, with referee David Webb’s watch telling him it had crossed the line before Nketiah’s clearance.
Crystal Palace's FA Cup hero Eberechi Eze celebrates scoring the fourth goal against Wolves
Eddie Nketiah drives the ball in for the first of his two goals on the night for Crystal Palace
Chelsea loanee Ben Chilwell screams in delight after his deflected 25-yard strike makes it 3-1
Within eight minutes, however, Palace were the ones leading instead. First, they equalised when Nketiah drilled the ball beyond Dan Bentley after some silky creativity from Romain Esse.
Then, Nketiah made it 2-1 when he tapped in Ismaila Sarr’s cross with Daniel Munoz – man of the match in the FA Cup final – doing well to keep the ball in play with a scissor-kick in the build-up.
In the 50th minute, Chelsea loanee Ben Chilwell made it 3-1 as his deflected 25-yard free-kick spun into the corner after Bentley had began to dive in the opposite direction.
Wolves got a goal back when Jorgen Strand Larsen nodded in a corner as Cunha was brought on to the away end signing: ‘Who the f*** are Man United?’
Joel Ward started – and captained – Palace in what was his last-ever home game for the club after 13 years of service. When substituted to a standing ovation after 71 minutes, he was in tears, but then he could not have envisaged a better way to bid farewell than this week.
As full-time neared, Eze, on as a substitute, cut inside and scored Palace’s fourth in a fitting end to this party at Selhurst.
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