Dani Osvaldo provides an exotic flourish as Southampton class tells against Crystal Palace The players believe fully in how they're playing and they're going to have to work even harder now that opponents can see how we operate. Of Osvaldo, Pochettino said: "I think Dani has to adapt more than anything to English football. To play in the English competition has to be the hardest for a striker. This for me is the best league. The tempo and rhythm is the best in the world - even better than the Italian or French or Spanish leagues. This first home win since March 30 followed on from last week's victory at Liverpool and exposed Palace as potential deadweights in this division. In the first-half, Southampton applied constant pressure without hurting their south London guests. Morgan Schneiderlin, whose high standards seldom dip, had a header cleared off the line and Lambert blasted over. At the other end Marouane Chamakh was booked for diving. Chamakh's punishment for flopping at Arsenal is to be ensnared in a survival struggle every time he leaves the house. Goal-scoring duties will weigh heavily on him. He might now be taking delivery of precision through-balls from Mesut Ozil. Instead, he finds himself groping for an understanding with Jimmy Kebe and Dwight Gayle, who gave way here to Jerome Thomas after just 57 minutes. Kebe and Chamakh combined well for one sweeping first-half move but Kebe's failure to shoot killed the moment. Chamakh then resorted to desperate measures, swerving round Artur Boruc in the Southampton goal and then throwing himself down in full sniper-victim mode. Ian Holloway, the Palace manager, condemned that attempt to deceive the referee: "He went down far too easily for my liking. I can't understand why he didn't chip it or shoot. After the break Southampton landed their two quick blows. First Osvaldo pulled the ball away from Kagisho Dikgacoi and cracked a left-foot shot past Speroni; then Lambert curled Southampton's second inside the post. Holloway has added 12 new faces but has yet to find a core of players capable of surviving. "I didn't like the way we capitulated again," he said. This division is so hard. They've got to learn about themselves and get some points in the toughest league in the world.