Three goals in six second half minutes helped Crystal Palace Reserves to a comfortable 4-0 win against Leyton Orient at the KT Stadium.

Reserve Team manager, Ronnie Jepson, made a series of changes from the side that drew 2-2 with Millwall last week by bringing in Jack Holland and Wilfred Zaha after their call ups to the senior team squad; as well as welcoming back Nathaniel Pinney and Hakeem Adelakun from their recent loan spells.

The last time these two sides met in the Totesport.com Combination League Palace ran out 9-2 winners, but after a first 45 of very few chances there appeared to be little chance of such a scoreline recurring this time round.

The opening stages saw Orient earn their only chance of the first half when a foul on the edge of the box allowed skipper Harry Beautyman to fire a curling effort into Charlie Mann's hands.

From there it was all Palace as Jepson's side began to settle into the pace of the game and carve out a series of chances.

On 18 minutes Wilfred Zaha did well on the edge of the box to get away from his marker before looking up and playing a defence splitting diagonal pass to Kieron Cadogan inside the area, but his first touch took him too wide and he had it all to do from a tight angle and fired over.

But the two combined with more lethal effect a minute later in almost identical circumstances. Zaha picked the ball up on the left corner of the box, saw Cadogan make the run and played the diagonal pass inside the Orient left back and this time he made no mistake with a calm finish past Jack Giddens.

It should have been two on 34 minutes when Cadogan did well on the right to fashion a cross to Kieran Djilali who headed straight at the keeper from six yards.

Two minutes later Djilali turned architect when his cross found Pinney at the back post, but instead of heading towards goal the striker tried to lay up Cadogan in support and the ball was cleared.

At the break Ronnie Jepson made a tactical substitution with Charlie Holness replacing James Comley in the centre and Palace began to look a greater attacking threat.

On 48 minutes Pinney received the ball down the left channel, dropped his shoulder before firing a low shot across goal narrowly missing the far post.

Then, just after the hour mark, Zaha almost managed to finish off a flowing Palace attacking move after Hakeem Adelakun and Kieran Djilali had combined, but his effort from inside the box was just wide.

Eventually Palace's pressure paid off inside six devastating minutes, starting with Cadogan's second of the evening on 64 minutes.

Set free down the right flank he cut into the six yard box, rolled the ball past the keeper before slotting home into an empty net.

Two minutes later it was 3-0 thanks to a stunner from Adelakun. The midfielder was picked out with a pass to the edge of the box from Djilali and he thumped it first time past a helpless Giddens in the Orient goal.

The result was wrapped up on 70 minutes when Djilali, who had the better of the Orient right back all game, skipped down the left wing to the touch line before clipping the ball over the advancing keeper.

He almost had a second for himself on 78 minutes when he again got the better of his marker on the left, cut in on his right to the edge of the box and curled a right footed effort just wide of the post.

Orient came to life in the dying stages with two late chances that should have narrowed the gap, but both times woefully wasted them.

With three minutes to go to full time Jake Argent smashed over from ten yards, while Beautyman did the same from even closer with the goal at his mercy.