Roy Hodgson delighted to end Crystal Palace's away-day 'hoodoo'

Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson believe the Eagles have broken their away-day curse after a 3-0 win at Leicester.

Christian Benteke scored his first goal since May to help Palace to their first away victory of the season on Saturday.

Wilfried Zaha and Bakary Sako also netted while the Foxes had Wilfred Ndidi sent off after collecting two yellow cards.

Palace also scored their first away goals of the campaign, are unbeaten in seven games and have risen to 14th in the Premier League.

"It's three clean sheets in a row away from home which is good, and even more importantly we've cured the hoodoo of not scoring away from home," Hodgson said.

"That has always been a bit surprising for me as in each of those away games as well as the ones at Brighton and West Brom, the chances were there and we were very close to scoring goals. On Saturday, we did score them.

"I suppose it is (the best away performance) because we won, but I thought we played very well at Tottenham when we lost 1-0, and I was pretty pleased when we lost at Newcastle."

Benteke had not scored for 1,106 minutes before his 19th-minute opener ended a troubled week after he was criticised for breaking team orders.

The striker missed a last-minute penalty in the 2-2 draw with Bournemouth after taking it ahead of Luka Milivojevic but Hodgson is keen to move on.

He said: "He was very strong and did the right things after the penalty miss and held his hands up, and everyone in the club appreciated that. We know that he is a quality player and the goal he scored is the sort of one he's going to score.

"His record at Aston Villa was one every two games, and it wouldn't surprise me if he matched that here in the remaining games of the season."

Leicester missed the chance to close the gap to the top four boss Claude Puel offered no excuses.

"I think it was a poor performance from us," he said. "It was a bad day. We didn't start the day with a good intensity or tempo, or good quality. It was difficult to find a solution.

"Our play was too slow on the pitch. We needed more intensity."