Huddersfield 0 CRYSTAL palace 2

Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson was relieved Wilfried Zaha avoided another injury in his side’s win at relegation rivals Huddersfield.

Zaha had been out since early February with a knee injury, but returned to help give Palace’s survival hopes a major boost as goals from James Tomkins and Luka Milivojevic secured them their first win in over two months.

“You’ll have seen he took quite a few kicks there towards the end of the game,” said Hodgson, whose side climbed out of the bottom three to within a point of Huddersfield.

“On a couple of occasions he was stopped by a foul and the referee gave the freekicks, but he took a couple of knocks.

“I haven’t been given any indication he’s picked up any injury.”

Huddersfield had hoped to take advantage of another home fixture against a relegation rival after being held to a goalless draw by Swansea last week.

“We were below par,” said Huddersfield boss David Wagner. “We deserved this defeat.”