Matheus Franca scored his first goal in English football to get a point for Crystal Palace from a 1-1 draw with Southampton’s day.
The 21 -year -old man – who did not play Premier League since March 2024 due to injury – was introduced with less than 15 minutes to play in Stary’s and headed at Jefferson Lerma Cross to score a decisive equalizer after 92 minutes.
Until this moment, the first half of Paul Onuachhaho’s header seemed to have secured the first victory in the Saints League, who remain 19 points out of safety and only eight games remain this season.
For the party Ivan Jurica, however, it was not all bad, because they avoided to become only the third team in the history of the highest flight to lose 10 home games in a row.
Southampton is seemingly resigned from his fate; Juric said it himself. “We will go down, but (we want to go down) with a bigger struggle, more dignity and more,” he said after defeat 2-1 Wolves before the March international break.
As a result, he used Gung’s access from off at St Mary’s – but it bounced almost immediately. Some advocates allowed Jean-Philippe Matthew Svoboda Svoboda coast to choose his place from 20 yards and hit the shot back from the bottom of the partition and defeated Aaron Ramsdale.
The hosts, however, did not return to their shells and took a surprising lead for 20 minutes when Flynn Downes and Mateus Fernandes joined perfectly before the latter gave the cross that he set on fire in the lower corner.
Later, he raised two decent chances to expand the leadership, but not before the matote pulled out a sharp low savings from Ramsdale after a flashy control and an excellent shot.
Oliver Glasner made three changes just an hour ago, but Ben Chiwell, Daichi Kamada and Eddie Nkettiah did not cause their side into action. For a long time, the party’s shadow looked like Fulham on the weekend to book a place in the FA Cup quarterfinals.
In the 90th minute, the prospect of overcoming Derby record at a touch distance for the saints, but perhaps naively wanted to add more just to make sure. It was symptomatic for their unfortunate season so far to admit again.
And that’s exactly what happened when Taylor Harwood-Bellis’s removal returned the ball to Lerma, which chose Frank to head home and break again Southampton Hearts.
