Crystal Palace pair Mateta and Eze share praise after thumping Villa: Listen, Southgate!

Crystal Palace striker Jean-Philippe Mateta was delighted with his hat-trick in their 5-0 win against Aston Villa.

Palace signed for the season with a superb performance.

I'm very happy because we win a lot of games," said Mateta, who scored Palace's first Premier League hat-trick since Yannick Bolasie in 2015. We play with this guy [Ebere Eze] always, the team is climbing. It's very fun when you win and you score a lot of goals, like today.

We worked so hard, and I think we see the reward now, we see the benefit now. We just enjoy it, we have fun on the pitch.

I can score, I can give the ball."

Eze who scored twice - also said: He's [Mateta] what I'm playing for, man.

He's finishing everything that comes to him, which makes our life a lot easier when I'm playing for him, so it's good.

I did come close [to a hat-trick], but the most important thing is putting in good performances. We're all going to flourish, we're all going to have games where we score. Next time we're going to score.

We're preparing the work and we're doing the work before we go on to the pitch, so we're enjoying it, that's the main thing."

Mateta then had a Euros message for England coach Gareth Southgate: He [Eze] has to call, he has to, if he wants to win something!"