Crystal Palace manager Neil Warnock is left dazzled by John Oster's magic

Neil Warnock paid tribute to John Oster after his superb goal helped Crystal Palace to their second win within four days.

Oster produced a sublime piece of skill to put Palace 2-0 up at Carrow Road, chipping goalkeeper David Marshall from just inside the box.

Matthew Pattison pulled a goal back for the home side but Palace held on to win 2-1, much to the delight of Warnock.

"You will never see a better piece of skill than that anywhere in the world," said the Palace boss.

"It was a goal that was worthy of winning any game, although I've just reminded John that he was supposed to be marking Matthew Pattison when he scored. John has always had that sort of thing in him and I'm delighted with the way he is playing for us at the moment.

"He's never tackled in his life but we're teaching him to track back and he worked as hard as anyone out there, as well as providing that special moment."

Palace took the lead on 26 minutes when Craig Beattie sprung the offside trap to run through unopposed and slip the ball past Marshall.

Oster then conjured up his magical goal to give the visitors some breathing space and although Pattison headed home Lee Croft's cross on the hour mark, Norwich were unable to complete the comeback.

Palace beat Bristol City 4-2 at the weekend and Warnock is delighted his side now appear to be making progress after a slow start to the season.

"We don't seem to like the early months of the season for some reason," he said.

"We should have been a lot higher in the table now but we've played six of the top nine sides away from home already so it has not been easy. The main thing is we're not too far behind.

"I was delighted with the way we played tonight, it was a really good all-round display."