Wilfried Zaha is enjoying a fine start to the 2022/23 season.The Ivorian opened his account for the campaign during Crystal Palace's trip to Liverpool on Monday evening.Zaha was played in by the marauding Eberechi Eze and then produced a finish worthy of Thierry Henry in his prime to make it 1-0.When the former Manchester United forward is at the peak of his powers, he's incredibly difficult to stop, as Aston Villa found out the hard way on Saturday afternoon.Just two minutes after Ollie Watkins opened the scoring early on at Selhurst Park, Zaha bagged his second goal of the season.It was another counterattack from Patrick Vieira's quality-packed side, with their main man finishing cooly once again with his 'weaker' left foot.
Video: Zaha's first goal vs Palace
Well played, Wilf. That strike saw him overtake fellow countryman Yaya Toure in the Premier League's scoring charts, which is some achievement.
Zaha then moved further ahead and made it three goals in the English top-flight this season on 58 minutes, although there was certainly an element of luck involved.
Palace were awarded a penalty after VAR stepped in and declared that Villa defender Lucas Digne handled the ball inside the penalty area.
Zaha took responsibility from the spot as he always does, but was initially denied by a terrific save from Emi Martinez.
However, the Palace forward was on hand to gobble up the rebound and put his side 2-1 ahead.
And straight after doing so, he opted to celebrate by cockily staring down Martinez, who wasn't best pleased with his the goalscorer's actions.
Video: Zaha's celebration after scoring penalty rebound
There aren't many players in the Premier League better at riling up the opposition than Zaha. He really was born to wind people up on a football pitch.
Shortly after Zaha bagged his second of the game, Palace took a 3-1 lead through second half substitute Jean-Philippe Mateta, which secured their first win of the 2022/23 season - and it really was deserved.
Villa were poor throughout in truth and the defence's performance in the absence of Diego Carlos - who is likely to miss the rest of the campaign due to a serious achilles injury - will really concern manager Steven Gerrard.