Aston Villa 2 Crystal Palace 2: Barkley rescues point for Champions League chasers but Henderson is penalty hero

ROSS BARKLEY rode to the rescue with a stunning header to salvage a constituent for Villa - and easy wage backmost the £5million Unai Emery invested successful him this summer.

The bargain bargain from Luton Town has present clawed backmost 2 important points for his brag successful his past 2 appearances against Bournemouth and Palace.

Incredibly, without the 30-year-old's goals the Spaniard would beryllium looking astatine SIX consecutive defeats connected the rotation for the archetypal clip successful his star-studded career!

But successful the extremity a gully was a just effect arsenic Emi Martinez denied Palace with a stunning prevention to contradict Jeff Schlupp a precocious winner.

Emery was surely pumped up for this 1 arsenic helium looked to jump-start Villa's stuttering play - it's conscionable a pity his players took truthful agelong to get the memo!

Revenge indispensable person been connected the Villa manager's caput going into this one.

Not lone did the Eagles thrash his broadside 5-0 connected the last time of past season, aft Emery had led Villa to the Champions League.

They besides knocked the Villans retired of the Carabao Cup astatine Villa Park past month.

Emery had suffered 4 defeats connected the rotation for the archetypal clip successful 1026 games arsenic a manager - a 5th was simply unthinkable for the demanding Spaniard.

Yet his players changeable themselves successful the ft arsenic they conceded aft conscionable 4 minutes.

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Palace ruthlessly exposed their precocious antiaircraft enactment arsenic Jean-Philippe Mateta's aboriginal done shot sent Ismaila Sarr racing done connected goal.

The Senegal striker held disconnected Ian Maatsen earlier firing past Emi Martinez to unfastened his Premier League relationship for the Eagles.

Villa tried to respond but were wasteful.

New England headdress Morgan Rogers scuffed a changeable wide, Ollie Watkins nodded implicit past failed to get his caput to a superb Maatsen cross.

Palace were nether the cosh but had Dean Henderson to convey for a mates of moments of first-half brilliance.

Just earlier the half-hour, the 'keeper produced a stunning halt to contradict Watkins.

The Villa striker chopped wrong Trevoh Chalobah and fired successful a debased thrust which looked to person beaten Henderson arsenic it sped by him.

But someway the England keeper stretched retired his close limb to claw the shot from down him, distant from his gaping net.

Five minutes aboriginal Palace broke done Villa's lines again.

Sarr sprinted wide and drew Martinez disconnected his enactment earlier squaring to Mateta who someway lifted his changeable implicit an unfastened extremity from six yards.

To the striker's alleviation Sarr had conscionable strayed offside successful the build-up to spare his blushes.

Having survived that fortunate flight Villa past drew level.

Pau Torres produced a superb walk to divided the lines and prime retired McGinn, who past topped it with an adjacent amended done shot to nonstop Watkins clear.

The England striker calmly rounded Henderson and passed into an bare nett to extremity his five-match barren streak.

Villa's tails were up and Bailey near the crossbar shuddering with a rocket changeable which bounced to information with Henderson beaten.

The Jamaican was past progressive successful a bizarre incidental erstwhile helium tumbled successful the Palace container earlier play raged up to the different end.

However, erstwhile the shot yet went retired VAR Alex Chilowicz drew ref Tim Robinson's attraction to a foul by Will Hughes who had trod connected Bailey's bottommost to nonstop him crashing.

After a cheque connected the pitchside show Robinson pointed to the spot.

But Henderson hurled himself to his near to brilliantly thenar Youri Tielemans' spot footwear to safety.

And Palace delivered different suck-punch to Villa's ribs connected the stroke of half-time.

Sarr again raced wide of Villa's defence earlier being forced wide.

But the guardant managed to bypass Mateta to prime retired Justin Devenny astatine the backmost of the box.

And the young Northern Ireland planetary curled a peach of a changeable astir Tielemans to find the acold country of the net.

It was a stunning mode for the young Scottish-born midfielder to interruption his Premier League duck successful lone his 2nd commencement for Palace.

However Villa, with Matty Cash connected for Bogarde, came retired similar men possessed aft the break.

Emery went for broke sending connected Jhon Duran and Lucas Digne for McGinn and Maatsen.

But it was 30-year-old Barkley who salvaged a constituent for his side.

Tielemans swept implicit a country from the near and Barkley roseate betwixt Marc Guehi and Jeff Schlupp to power a header into the acold corner.

However it took a superb halt from Emi Martinez, who pushed a Schlupp thunderbolt onto his acold post, to forestall Palace snatching each 3 points.