Crystal Palace smash GAK Graz for THIRTEEN in emphatic pre-season victory

Stephen Dobbie scored four as Tony Pulis' side romp to easy win

Glenn Murray, Joe Ledley and Jonny Williams each scored a brace

Yannick Bolasie (pen), Jerome Thomas and Marouane Chamakh also scored



Crystal Palace have begun their pre-season campaign with a thumping 13-1 win at GAK Graz.

Tony Pulis' side completed a week-long training camp in Austria by crashing home 13 goals past their opponents.



Stephen Dobbie scored four, with Glenn Murray, Joe Ledley and Jonny Williams grabbing a brace each for the Eagles, as Yannick Bolasie, Jerome Thomas and Marouane Chamakh were also on target for the visitors.

Menace: Stephen Dobbie scored five for Crystal Palace (left) in their 13-1 win at GAK Graz on Wednesday On the ball: Barry Bannan (left) started for Tony Pulis' side in Austria

Match Facts

GAK Graz: Kreisl, Strauss, Geller, Stadler, Ceesay, Griesbacher, Samuel, Ivanescu, Sacher, Grischenig, Wemmer. Goal: Sacher 59

Crystal Palace first-half XI: Hennessey, Mariappa, Dann, Delaney, Jerome Williams, Bolasie, Bannan, Ledley, Thomas, Murray, Gayle. Crystal Palace second-half XI: Kettings, Hunt, Ramage, McCarthy, Boateng, Gray, O'Keefe, Campana, Jonny Williams, Dobbie, Chamakh.

Goals: Ledley 5 and 71, Bolasie (pen 12), Murray 18 and 36, Thomas 44, Dobbie 62, 66, 67 and 81, Chamakh 76, Williams 79 and 90



It took just five minutes for Palace to take the lead with Ledley prodding home from close range from a corner.

Bolasie soon doubled the lead with a penalty converting from the spot after he he was fouled in the box.

The score was 5-0 at half-time as Murray scored twice before Thomas put the game beyond doubt prior to the interval.

Pulis rang the changes at half-time but that didn't stop his Eagles' soaring despite Graz pulling one back Laurenz Sacher.

Palace substitute Dobbie collected a five-minute hattrick after 67 minutes before Ledley scored his second four minutes later.

Fellow replacements Chamakh and Williams added a tenth and eleventh goal to the proceedings before Dobbie completed his personal haul for the night with his fourth strike past the hosts.

Williams completed the scoreline in injury-time, leaving their travelling fans delighted.