Aston Villa 0-1 Crystal Palace: result and report
Premier League · Thursday 26 December 2013
Result
Aston Villa 0-1 Crystal Palace
Premier League · Thursday 26 December 2013, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Aston Villa 0-1 Crystal Palace: match report
Aston Villa lost to Crystal Palace 0-1 in the Premier League on Thursday 26 December 2013. The half-time score was 0-0.
The only goal came from Dwight Gayle of Crystal Palace in the 90th minute.
Discipline: Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 15th on 18 points from 17 and Crystal Palace 19th on 13 points from 17. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 16th with 37 points, and Crystal Palace 12th with 44.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-2 and Crystal Palace in a 4-4-1-1.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Aston Villa wins, 1 draw and 1 for Crystal Palace.
Going into the match Aston Villa's last five read L-L-L-D-D and Crystal Palace's L-L-W-W-L.
Key events
- 35'Yellow card · Nathan Baker
- 37'Yellow card · Barry Bannan
- 67'Yellow card · Cameron Jerome
- 72'Yellow card · Karim El Ahmadi
- 90+2'Goal · Dwight Gayle
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-4-2)
Brad Guzan, Matthew Lowton, Ciaran Clark, Nathan Baker, Antonio Luna, Marc Albrighton, Karim El Ahmadi, Fabian Delph, Andreas Weimann, Libor Kozák, Gabriel Agbonlahor
Crystal Palace line-up (4-4-1-1)
Julián Speroni, Adrian Mariappa, Danny Gabbidon, Damien Delaney, Jonathan Parr, Jason Puncheon, Joel Ward, Mile Jedinak, Yannick Bolasie, Barry Bannan, Cameron Jerome