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Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 20:56
Goals from Jonathan Douglas, Jermaine Beckford, Luciano Becchio and Enoch Showunmi secured a comfortable victory for Gary McAllister's men over a very poor Palace side, who have now failed to hit the back of the net in four out of five games this season.
Douglas latched on to an under hit Matt Lawrence headed back pass to tuck over Darryl Flahavan in the 13th minute to give Leeds an early advantage.
Palace enjoyed their fair share of possession in the first half - but as they have all season, looked toothless in the attacking third.
Beckford should have doubled the home side's lead on 32 minutes after his first time shot from a neat Neil Kilkenny free kick was well saved by Flahavan.
However, the pair combined from the resulting corner to give Leeds a two goal cushion after Beckford's towering header sailed past Flahavan just seconds later.
And any hope Palace had of dragging thmselves back into the game vanished seven minutes into the second period after Becchio's header from Frazer Richardson's cross came off the post and rebounded off Flahavan to give Leeds a three goal lead.
Substitute Enoch Showunmi missed a glorious chance to put his side 4-0 up on 71 minutes after Flahavan saved his close range shot after good work from Beckford.
But the giant striker made no mistake on 76 minutes after cutting inside Lawrence on the left before curling a beautiful right-footed strike past Flahavan.
The former Bristol City man should have had a second 12 minutes from time after a Paddy McCarthy mistake - but the Republic of Ireland man nipped in to rectify his mistake to save further embarrassment.
Andrew saw Palace's best opportunity cleared off the line by Douglas eight minutes from time after skipping past two Leeds defenders - as Palace's goalscoring woes continued to conclude an awful evening for the south Londoners.
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