Roy Hodgson was full of praise for his match-winning Eagles after Crystal Palace condemned Cardiff City to Championship football next season.
Hodgson said: "A clinical performance, and extremly good play as well. It was an exciting game as well, and although I thought we spurned quite a few chances which the quality of our play had managed to produce. Cardiff were never out of it, and there was always that risk that they would get a strike away and score, as we saw right at the end of the game - there had been two or three warnings of that goal coming before he actually scored it.