Late substitute Jean-Philippe Mateta scored with the ultimate kick of the sport to show the match on its head, after an unlucky Daniel Iversen personal objective had cancelled out Ricardo Pereira’s opener.It secured Palace a fully-merited first victory of 2023 within the opening recreation of Hodgson’s second spell in command of the Eagles. The 75-year-old beforehand managed the aspect between 2017 and 2021 and he declared the 2-1 victory over Leicester one of the best show he has ever overseen as Palace boss.“I need to truthfully say that within the 4 years that I used to be fortunate sufficient to work right here earlier than, I don’t suppose I ever noticed that high quality of efficiency that the crew gave within the first half,” Hodgson mirrored.“It actually was a really dominant first-half efficiency, and a efficiency that basically encompassed all of the issues we’ve been attempting to place into folks’s heads: ‘You’re really superb gamers. For those who take pictures on, we predict along with your expertise you’ve acquired sufficient to attain targets.’READ MORE“All of the issues we requested for, they definitely did. Immediately we solely acquired two [goals], however fairly frankly with 31 pictures and 9 of them on track, we may have simply acquired a number of extra.”Palace’s talisman, Wilfried Zaha, hobbled off injured simply earlier than the break with a groin pressure that the membership might be hoping isn’t critical. Whereas the Ivorian is prone to go away the membership in the summertime on the finish of his contract, Palace want him match and firing as they battle eight different sides for Premier League survival.“The harm to Zaha was a large blow,” Hodgson conceded. “There’s no replace. All we will do now could be cross our fingers and hope for the perfect. It’s a muscle pressure, and muscle strains can take something from days to weeks and months. We’ll have to attend and see.”Hodgson had made Zaha captain and defined his resolution, saying: “He’s turn out to be a greater participant since I left. Once I was right here, we actually did depend upon him very closely. To create and rating targets, Wilf was the person all of us turned to. That’s been eased by good recruitment.“To make him captain was a simple selection. [Joel] Ward and Luka [Milivojevic], I’m very proud of these two. Marc Guehi, I love him very a lot and I may definitely see him being the long run captain, perhaps even of England. That’s how good that boy is. “I had to select, so I simply went for, in my view, our greatest participant.”