Plymouth Argyle 2-4 Crystal Palace: Jean-Philippe Mateta scores hat-trick as Eagles come from 2-0 down

Substitutes Eberechi Eze (left) and Jordan Ayew (centre) combined to acceptable up Odsonne Edouard for Palace's archetypal goal

Crystal Palace scored 3 goals successful 5 second-half minutes to travel from 2-0 down to triumph astatine Plymouth Argyle successful the Carabao Cup 2nd round.

But Palace responded successful devastating manner arsenic Odsonne Edouard converted from adjacent scope and Jean-Philippe Mateta tapped successful soon after.

Mateta past blasted successful his 2nd earlier Eberechi Eze fed Mateta for the French striker to ruthlessly implicit his archetypal hat-trick for the Premier League side.

Ben Waine's aboriginal extremity had fixed Plymouth Argyle content earlier Palace's second-half fightback

This was the archetypal clip a top-flight broadside had visited Home Park for a competitory fixture since Argyle - past successful League Two - were beaten by Liverpool successful an FA Cup third-round replay successful January 2017.

Palace made 7 changes from the broadside that drew 1-1 astatine Brentford, including a debut for 20-year-old guardant Jesurun Rak-Sakyi, portion Argyle made 9 from the squad that narrowly mislaid astatine Birmingham City.

It was Waine - 1 of those brought successful by Argyle brag Steven Schumacher - who enactment them up with his 3rd extremity successful 2 EFL Cup starts arsenic helium got connected the extremity of Callum Wright's back-post header from Tyreik Wright's cross.

Palace had an equaliser disallowed 5 minutes aboriginal erstwhile Rak-Sakyi was offside arsenic helium finished a Jefferson Lerma walk aft a bully move.

Argyle settled into the opening play good and looked a menace going forward, with Wright peculiarly impressive.

The Eagles' champion first-half accidental came erstwhile Mateta was a toe's width distant from Rak-Sakyi's debased transverse astatine the backmost post, earlier Mickel Miller flashed an effort wide of the Palace station successful stoppage time.

Soon aft the break, Cundle curled a fantastic right-footed changeable into the apical country from 25 yards to treble Argyle's pb and look to calm immoderate location nerves.

Palace responded by bringing connected Jordan Ayew, Eze and Jeffrey Schlupp successful a triple alteration 10 minutes into the fractional - and it proved a masterstroke by Eagles brag Roy Hodgson.

Eze and Ayew linked up good earlier the second enactment successful a transverse from the close that Edouard converted, earlier Eze's debased shot successful from the near was tapped successful by Mateta.

Schlupp past released Mateta with a right-footed walk from midfield and the French striker blasted successful to springiness his broadside the lead.

Waine and Miller some went adjacent for the Pilgrims earlier Palace showed their ruthlessness for the 4th arsenic Eze broke earlier feeding Mateta, who changeable right-footed past Callum Burton astatine the adjacent post.