Jean-Philippe Mateta came off the bench to score twice as Crystal Palace recovered from behind to beat Newcastle United 2-1 at Selhurst Park. Will Osula had given Newcastle a first-half lead, but Mateta's 80th-minute header and his penalty in the fourth minute of stoppage time completed the turnaround. The result sent Palace above Newcastle into 13th on goal difference and dealt another blow to the visitors' hopes of reaching Europe.
It was a game that took time to ignite, with both sides changed and short of rhythm. Ramsdale's sharp double save kept Palace out when Yeremy Pino and Daniel Munoz threatened, and Newcastle struck against the run of play before the interval. After the break, however, Palace pushed the visitors back, Oliver Glasner's substitutions changed the tone, and Jefferson Lerma hitting the bar foreshadowed Mateta's decisive intervention.
A quiet opening finally gives way
With both managers altering their line-ups, the opening half-hour was sluggish. Palace did not manage a shot on target in the first 30 minutes, and the first real scare came only after 34 minutes, when Pino's effort from outside the box was pushed away by Ramsdale before he recovered quickly to stop Munoz's follow-up.