Plymouth Argyle 2-4 Crystal Palace: Jean-Philippe Mateta scores hat-trick as Eagles come from 2-0 down

Crystal Palace scored three targets in 5 second-half minutes to come from 2-0 down to win at Plymouth Argyle within the Carabao Cup second spherical.

But Palace responded in devastating trend as Odsonne Edouard transformed from shut vary and Jean-Philippe Mateta tapped in quickly after.

Mateta then blasted in his second earlier than Eberechi Eze fed Mateta for the French striker to ruthlessly full his first hat-trick for the Premier League facet.

This was the primary time a top-flight facet had visited Home Park for a aggressive fixture since Argyle – then in League Two – have been overwhelmed by Liverpool in an FA Cup third-round replay in January 2017.

Palace made seven modifications from the facet that drew 1-1 at Brentford, together with a debut for 20-year-old ahead Jesurun Rak-Sakyi, whereas Argyle made 9 from the crew that narrowly misplaced at Birmingham City.

It was Waine – a type of introduced in by Argyle boss Steven Schumacher – who put them forward together with his third purpose in two EFL Cup begins as he bought on the tip of Callum Wright’s back-post header from Tyreik Wright’s cross.

Palace had an equaliser disallowed 5 minutes later when Rak-Sakyi was offside as he completed a Jefferson Lerma move after an excellent transfer.

Argyle settled into the opening interval nicely and regarded a risk going ahead, with Wright notably spectacular.

The Eagles’ greatest first-half probability got here when Mateta was a toe’s width away from Rak-Sakyi’s low cross on the again publish, earlier than Mickel Miller flashed an effort large of the Palace publish in stoppage time.

Soon after the break, Cundle curled an exquisite right-footed shot into the highest nook from 25 yards to double Argyle’s lead and seem to calm any house nerves.

Palace responded by bringing on Jordan Ayew, Eze and Jeffrey Schlupp in a triple change 10 minutes into the half – and it proved a masterstroke by Eagles boss Roy Hodgson.

Eze and Ayew linked up nicely earlier than the latter put in a cross from the precise that Edouard transformed, earlier than Eze’s low ball in from the left was tapped in by Mateta.

Schlupp then launched Mateta with a right-footed move from midfield and the French striker blasted in to provide his facet the lead.

Waine and Miller each went shut for the Pilgrims earlier than Palace confirmed their ruthlessness for the fourth as Eze broke earlier than feeding Mateta, who shot right-footed previous on the close to publish.

Plymouth Argyle supervisor Steven Schumacher instructed BBC Sport:

“I actually loved the entire evening to be sincere.

“I’m clearly gutted to exit and never get to the subsequent spherical, however I felt that we performed very well.

“We pushed a prime crew in Crystal Palace all the best way, we confirmed in giant elements of the sport what we’re able to and only for a 5 minute spell within the second half we bought undone with three actual good moments of play from fine quality gamers.

“So it is one thing for us to be taught from, however general I’m happy with the efficiency, however gutted to be out.”

Crystal Palace supervisor Roy Hodgson instructed BBC Sport:

“I did not benefit from the first half very a lot – I assumed they have been excellent all through, I feel they are a good crew and positively within the first half I felt they absolutely deserved the lead at half time.

“I do not assume we bought anyplace close to shut sufficient for my liking to trigger them issues and look as although we have been going to get that equalising purpose.

“Then after all at half time we tried to impress the crew a bit of bit and perhaps with just one purpose in it we might play higher within the second half and out of the blue we’re 2-0 down.

“It was a really good performance to come back from that and we have to thank of course the senior players, the ones who have been playing in the first team, they replaced some of the ones who haven’t played for a while and they enabled us to create those goal chances to score the goals.”