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- Updated: August 13, 2016
West Brom kicked off their 2016/17 Premier League campaign with a 1-0 win at Crystal Palace, thanks to a second-half header from Salomon Rondon.
The Venezuelan rose highest to flick in substitute James McClean’s corner on 74 minutes and the visitors held on to start the new season with victory.
There was a late penalty shout from Yannick Bolasie, who had started the game on the bench following Palace’s acceptance of a £30m bid from Everton, and new signing Andros Townsend fired an injury-time free-kick wide as the hosts pushed for an equaliser.
But in a game of few chances it was West Brom and Rondon – who had been denied by a superb Wayne Hennessey save in the first-half – who came out on top.
After seeing his seventh-minute header clawed away by Palace’s Wales international goalkeeper, …
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