COMEBACK specialists Cherries once again showed their desire to score late goals as substitute Joshua King earned them a share of the spoils against Crystal Palace.

King stabbed home a minute from time to seal a 2-2 draw for Eddie Howe’s men for the second occasion against the Eagles this season.

His late finish came after a moment of magic from Wilfried Zaha appeared to have won it for the visitors.

The Palace forward scored 15 minutes from time to make it 2-1 after Cherries striker Lys Mousset had cancelled out birthday boy Luka Milivojevic’s second-half free-kick.

Cherries made three changes to the starting XI which secured a point against Watford last time out.

With Junior Stanislas ruled out for the rest of the campaign with a knee injury, Ryan Fraser moved back to his natural position on the wing and skipper Simon Francis returned at right-back.

King dropped to the bench in place of Jermain Defoe, who started alongside Callum Wilson for the first time this season.

Marc Pugh made his first Premier League start since New Year’s Day as he came in for Jordon Ibe, who was left out of the squad all together.

Palace, who went into the encounter having lost five of their past six games, were without striker Christian Benteke due to a groin problem.

Martin Kelly was named on the bench, meaning both James Tomkins and Ruben Loftus-Cheek returned to the Eagles’ line-up as the visitors made two changes.

It was Cherries who could have been a goal up with only 40 seconds on the clock.

A teasing delivery from out wide played in by Charlie Daniels evaded defender Mamadou Sakho but Wilson scuffed the ball wide of the target.

Fraser then crossed from the opposite flank for Defoe, whose tame attempt was gathered by Wayne Hennessey in the away goal.

It was then the turn of skipper Francis to advance forward from full-back. He linked up nicely with Wilson and saw his cross agonisingly drift away from Dan Gosling, who had charged into the area.

But despite their slow start, Palace almost took the lead with 22 minutes gone.

After working the ball neatly down the left flank through Loftus-Cheek, midfielder James McArthur’s low drive was charged down by Nathan Ake and the ball fell to safety.

Tempers then flared between Wilfried Zaha and Lewis Cook as the pair tangled in midfield with the Palace man appearing to drag the England international across the turf.

Despite the bizarre coming together, referee Jonathan Moss gave the visiting winger a talking to but showed no caution.

Moments later, Cook spread the ball to Fraser, whose first-time cross was volleyed narrowly over the bar by Wilson.

Striker Defoe almost improved his impressive goal record against Palace. He was picked out by Fraser, but saw his effort on the turn deflect off target.

But just two minutes after the break, Palace took the lead.

Defoe appeared to clip Yohan Cabaye on the edge of the box and up stepped skipper Milivojević to bend the resulting free-kick into the corner from 25-yards out.

Cherries attempted to rally. Pugh’s curling attempt was palmed away by Hennessey before midfielder Cook was also denied by the Welsh stopper.

As the hosts began to throw men forward, they left themselves open on the counter.

Begovic came to the rescue to charge down Patrick van Aanholt’s attempt when going through one-on-one.

The Cherries keeper was then relied on once again as Palace broke forward, this time Zaha stung the palms of the goalkeeper after cutting inside and shifting the ball on to his left foot.

Howe then looked to the bench in a bid to get his side back into the contest, with Mousset and King replacing Pugh and Wilson.

And it was the Frenchman who made a huge impact three minutes after entering the field as he netted his second league goal of the campaign.

Mousset found the bottom corner after being teed up by Ryan Fraser on the edge of the box to make it 1-1.

But Zaha was to show his class as he put Hodgson’s men back in the driving seat.

He skipped away following attempted challenges from Cook, Gosling and Fraser before smashing the ball into the top corner via a deflection.

Cherries were not done there however, as they rescued their 18th point from losing positions this season.

Fraser’s corner was flicked on by Steve Cook and there was King to poke the ball home at the back post and earn the Dorset club a draw.

Cherries: Begovic; Francis, Daniels, Ake, S Cook; Fraser, L Cook (Surman, 80), Gosling, Pugh (Mousset, 62); Defoe; Wilson (King, 62).

Unused subs: B Smith, Simpson, Taylor, Boruc (g/k).

Booked: Francis, Gosling.

Eagles: Hennessey; Wan-Bissaka, Tomkins, Sakho, Van Aanholt; Cabaye, Milivojevic, McArthur; Townsend, Zaha, Loftus-Cheek.

Unused subs: Lee, Souare, Fosu-Mensah, Kelly, Riedewald, Daly, Cavalieri (g/k).

Booked: Tomkins, Cabaye.

Referee: Jonathan Moss.