Wolves Relegated After Crystal Palace And West Ham Ends Scoreless

West Ham drew astatine Crystal Palace 0-0 connected Monday, gaining an important constituent successful its combat to debar relegation and ensuring the demise of the Premier League’s bottommost nine Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Wolves cannot amass capable points successful its past 5 games to debar the driblet and volition instrumentality to the Championship for the archetypal clip since 2018.

Relegation looked inevitable for the Midlands nine for astir of a woeful play but adjacent a drawstring of much encouraging performances implicit the past mates of months could not prevention it.

The extremity came acold from location successful a listless lucifer successful southbound London.

West Ham had the amended of the opening exchanges but the scoreline remained goalless astatine halftime. Although Palace perked up successful the 2nd fractional it did not make galore chances and neither goalkeeper was precise busy.

The constituent was nevertheless welcomed by the Hammers, who moved 2 wide of Tottenham Hotspur successful 18th place.

"A constituent astatine the extremity of the time isn’t the worst happening successful the world," skipper Jarrod Bowen said.

"We’re trying to support West Ham successful the Premier League. We can’t trust connected anyone else, we request to look astatine ourselves and support warring to enactment successful the Premier League."

Palace, which has won lone 3 of its past 26 Monday nighttime games successful the Premier League, remained successful 13th.

Goalkeeper Dean Henderson’s shutout was Palace’s 12th cleanable expanse of the season, a grounds bettered lone by the apical 2 Arsenal and Manchester City.

"(That record) is an unbelievable instrumentality for our league position," Henderson said. "The antiaircraft portion is truthful good, anyone who steps successful has been excellent. That’s the foundations we’ve built and hopefully adhd immoderate goals astatine the different end."

Reporting by The Associated Press