Crystal Palace climbed to fifth in the Premier League with victory over Bournemouth despite playing 71 minutes with 10 men.
Jeffrey Schlupp’s late winner more than compensated for the first-half dismissal of Mamadou Sakho, who was shown a red card for a dangerous lunge on Adam Smith.
For Bournemouth their worries continue after a fourth consecutive defeat.
The match was a chance to watch two English managers with contrasting approaches to the game.
This was apparent from the teams, Eddie Howe refreshing Bournemouth side with four changes, Roy Hodgson sticking with his trusted players and Sakho, the only change from Saturday’s victory over Burnley, replacing the injured Scott Dann.
As it turned out, that sole change proved to be rather significant.
After an opening period in which both sides snapped about each other, either closing down possession with alacrity or moving the ball short distances as quickly as they could, one tackle upended a finely balanced contest.
The challenge came from Sakho; it was dangerous and more importantly needless.
The centre-half had already done a job well, anticipating Adam Smith’s throw down the Palace left and beating both Callum Wilson and Dominic Solanke to the punch with a poke of his toe.
It was what he did next that was stupid, chasing down his clearance and sliding in on Smith at pace and with his right foot raised to knee height.
Sakho won the ball but that was irrelevant; so was the fact Smith avoided much contact as he flew up in the air anticipating the challenge.
It looked bad, it looked dangerous, and after a little lingering around waiting for VAR’s approval, Sakho completed his marching orders.
Palace were briefly down to nine men soon afterwards when Patrick van Aanholt departed with an injury and play was allowed to continue.
When the ball went into touch, Schlupp replaced his fellow Dutchman and Cheikhou Kouyaté stepped back from midfield into the heart of defence.
The effect was to strip Palace of any ambition to build through possession. What remained was defensive resolution and a quick ball to Wilfried Zaha.
That these qualities are also two of Palace’s key strengths meant the home side did not struggle to adapt.
Bournemouth crafted one goalscoring opportunity in the first half six minutes before the interval.
After progressing the ball up the left-hand side through Diego Rico, a pass was cut back from the byline to Solanke.
The forward looked up and slipped the ball to Philip Billing. He was just inside the box and in acres of room but hit his shot side-foot and straight down the throat of Vicente Guaita, who claimed it comfortably.
Not one to take an undue risk, Hodgson opted to batten down the hatches, making a second substitution to withdraw Andros Townsend in favour of James McCarthy.
Bournemouth came out with the same side and immediately set about trying to make their numerical advantage count.
In the 48th minute they had a clear chance when Harry Wilson bent a wonderful cross along the six-yard line.
Standing on the penalty spot Solanke was too slow to react and could not get his toe to the ball. At the far post, Martin Kelly did his job and poked the ball away from the loitering Wilson.
Solanke has still to score for Bournemouth since his £17m move from Liverpool last January and his lack of confidence, not only in front of goal but in his approach play, was clear.
Howe sought to refresh his attacking options and Rico and Danjuma were the players to make way, replaced by Simon Francis and Ryan Fraser.
So what did Palace do in response? They sensed the visitors’ increasing frustration and set about pouncing on the counterattack.
Zaha led the way and was furious not to be awarded a penalty after receiving a push from Chris Mepham in the box.
Soon afterwards Palace scored and the man with the dynamic run this time was Schlupp. He got the ball on halfway and dashed away at a sprint.
As the Bournemouth defenders backed off he slalomed his way into the area before shooting low across the goal under Aaron Ramsdale and into the net.
