Jesse Marsch's side survived a 2d half barrage from a Palace team stimulated via Wilfried Zaha after he was accused of diving through the site visitors.
Leeds are 5 points clean of the relegation zone, however 0.33 bottom Everton have a recreation in hand to shut the distance to two factors.
With Leeds' next three video games coming towards Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea, there should yet be a nerve-jangling end to the season for the Yorkshire membership.
Leeds have taken 11 factors from seven video games on account that hiring American boss Marsch to replace the sacked Marcelo Bielsa.
But no matter that solid run, Burnley's 2d successive win, towards Wolves on Sunday, has lifted them out of the relegation sector above Everton, within the system dragging Leeds into the scrap for survival.
Marsch and Palace boss Patrick Vieira met nine instances inside the United States throughout their spells in charge of New York Red Bulls and New York City FC respectively.
None of those preceding encounters can had been pretty so important to Marsch as this one as Leeds tried to climb faraway from the relegation dogfight.
England midfielder Kalvin Phillips become making his first Leeds begin for almost five months after a hamstring injury, but at instances the frenetic pace left him struggling to preserve up.
Jean-Philippe Mateta nearly gave Palace the perfect begin whilst he raced onto Conor Gallagher's lengthy pass and clipped his shot past Leeds keeper Illan Meslier, but the burly striker's attempt drifted just extensive.
