Mateta’s 97th-minute penalty completes his hat-trick as Palace and Bournemouth share a six-goal Selhurst epic
Crystal Palace and Bournemouth produced a breathless 3-3 draw that swung wildly from one extreme to the other and back again. Jean-Philippe Mateta was the headline act, dragging Palace level after going 0-2 down with a quick-fire brace before keeping his nerve from the spot in the 97th minute to complete a hat-trick. That wasn’t the final twist: in the ninth minute of stoppage time, he blazed over a chance that would have sealed an improbable win.
For long spells, Bournemouth looked set to go top of the Premier League for a few hours, powered by a superb first-half brace from 19-year-old Eli Junior Kroupi and a late strike from Ryan Christie in the 89th minute. The visitors' high press rattled Palace early, their fans chanting about being 'top of the league,' but Oliver Glasner's side roared back after the interval in a match that had VAR interventions, controversy, and drama to the last kick.
Teenage Kroupi fires Bournemouth into a dream start