Christian Benteke was on the scoresheet as Crystal Palace won 3-0 at Leicester City.

A week after defying manager Roy Hodgson's orders to take - and miss - a penalty, Benteke netted the opener in the 19th minute before Wilfried Zaha doubled the advantage for the Eagles.

Things became worse for Leicester when birthday boy Wilfried Ndidi was shown a second yellow card for a dive and Bakary Sako scored an injury-time third on the break. Having lost their opening seven league games, Palace are now unbeaten in seven.

Hodgson remarked afterwards: “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. 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. Today, we did score them."

On Benteke, he added: “That's great for him. 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, and had it not been for a wondersave by Kasper Schmeichel, he would have scored two today because he got in the positions well, and when he does that he's a good header of the ball."