West Brom 0-3 Crystal Palace: Andros Townsend stars as Palace cruise through in Carabao Cup

Townsend's goals were his first of the season

Andros Townsend scored a spectacular goal to help Crystal Palace cruise past Championship West Brom and progress to the Carabao Cup fourth round.

The winger ran with the ball from inside his own half before smashing a shot inside the far post from 30 yards for Palace's first goal.

Patrick van Aanholt fired in the visitors' second from the edge of the box in the 76th minute.

Townsend topped a fine display by scoring Palace's third late on.

The former England international skipped inside one defender before driving a finish in off the inside of the post.

West Brom made 10 changes from their league match on Saturday, compared to eight changes by Palace, and struggled throughout.

Their best chance came in the first half when James Morrison's shot from inside the penalty area was saved by Palace goalkeeper Vicente Guaita diving high to his left.

'Hard to fault anything with our performance' - manager reaction

Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: "It was a very good team performance.

"I thought we were excellent in every aspect of the game. I would find it hard to fault anything in our performance tonight.

"It's good to win games, it's good to win them away from home. Everything from tonight's performance was just what I wanted. We prepared very seriously for this game."

West Brom manager Darren Moore: "Tonight, against Premier League opposition, our younger players will benefit from the game.

"[They will benefit from] the speed, the precision, power, accuracy and the intelligence. They won't lose from that in the long-run despite the result.

"In terms of the levels needed, that was a great test for us tonight."