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Crystal Palace swept away rock-bottom Norwich 3-0 at Selhurst Park to end the year with an emphatic win.Palace, beaten 3-0 in their last outing by Tottenham, were again without manager Patrick Viera in the dugout while Wilfred Zaha and Conor Gallagher were also unavailable.
Dean Smith was desperate to get his Norwich side back on track after four straight defeats and the visitors started the game brightly. But as seems typical with the Canaries at the moment, all their hard work was quickly undone with some poor decision making.
On this occasion it was Kenny McLean who caught Will Hughes in the box after the Palace midfielder produced a neat turn to win a penalty after just seven minutes. Up stepped Odsonne Edouard who made no mistake from the spot and slotted home to break the deadlock.
From then on it became one way traffic as Edouard was involved in the next two goals. First the striker fizzed in a cross which was tucked away by Jean-Philippe Mateta. For the second goal the Frenchman danced his way into the box before teeing up Jeffrey Schlupp who fired his shot past Angus Gunn to make it 3-0.
The second half saw Norwich attempt to be more adventurous, but as the game…
