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Crystal Palace 2-1 Stoke

Mamadou Sakho was quickest to react in injury-time to give Crystal Palace a 2-1 win over Stoke.

The Palace captain tapped home in the 92nd minute from two yards after a Yohan Cabaye shot had struck the base of the post to send Selhurst Park into raptures.

Xherdan Shaqiri had given Stoke the lead when he collected the ball on the halfway line and ran straight at the Palace defence who didn't close the Stoke man down, allowing him to get to the edge of the area and curl a shot into the bottom corner from 18 yards out after 53 minutes.

Crystal Palace reacted well and were on level terms within three minutes when Andros Townsend sent in a cross which went beyond everyone until reaching Ruben Loftus-Cheek at the back post who calmly slotted home from close range.

Ryan Shawcross should have won it late on for Stoke when he got on the end of a Shaqiri cross but the defender instead essentially cleared the ball rather than putting it into the back of the net from a yard, with his miss being compounded by Sakho's late winner.

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