Premier League: Watford relegated after loss to Palace, Chelsea held to 2-2 draw by Wolves

Watford have been relegated from the Premier League after they have been overwhelmed 1-0 at Crystal Palace on Saturday. Wilfried Zaha scored from the spot within the first half for Palace as supervisor Roy Hodgson’s return to the Selhurst Park was not a memorable one.

Meanwhile, Chelsea’s odd run continued because the Blues have been held to a 2-2 draw by Wolverhampton Wanderers on the Stamford Bridge in entrance of their new house owners. Conor Coady struck deep into time added on to grab a 2-2 draw for Wolverhampton.

Coady headed house a cross from substitute Chiquinho within the 97th minute — virtually the final motion of the sport –after Francisco Trincao had pulled a objective again following Romelu Lukaku’s double strike for Chelsea.

Todd Boehly, the person heading the consortium that has agreed phrases to take over the membership in a 4.25 billion kilos ($5.24 billion) deal, seemed crestfallen after cheering Chelsea’s objectives enthusiastically.

The London facet have received solely twice of their final seven league video games and have been struggling defensively as they search to cling on to a Champions League spot with three video games to go.

“Of course the taste of the game is bad,” Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta advised Sky Sports.

“We are conceding too many goals in the last couple of games which is putting us in a difficult position in the race for the Champions League.”

WATFORD RELEGATED

Palace have been awarded a penalty following a VAR test for handball by Hassane Kamara and Zaha stepped as much as slot house his thirteenth objective of the season after sending Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster the mistaken method.

The guests wanted a win to maintain alive their dwindling hopes of survival after final week’s 2-1 loss to Burnley left them 12 factors adrift of the protection zone however their timid show meant Palace comfortably saved Watford at arm’s size.

Patrick Vieira’s facet climbed as much as ninth place on 44 factors whereas Watford remained second-bottom with 22 factors and can be a part of Norwich within the Championship, dropping all the way down to the second division for the second time in three seasons.

“Last week, we were 1-0 up and looked as though we were going to carry that result through but when those last two goals went in… I think only someone who’s got no idea what football is about would have believed we could still do it (avoid relegation),” Hodgson mentioned.

“We were, I suppose, resigned to that to some extent last week, and I think that makes today’s performance even more commendable… We kept going, we were competitive until the end and that was a good effort from our team.”