Blackpool 2-1 Crystal Palace: result and report

Championship · Saturday 21 January 2012

Result

Blackpool 2-1 Crystal Palace

Championship · Saturday 21 January 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Blackpool 2-1 Crystal Palace: match report

Blackpool defeated Crystal Palace 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 21 January 2012. The half-time score was 0-1.

Owen Garvan opened the scoring in the 27th minute. Blackpool's goals came from E. Grandin (85') and Chris Basham (90'). Crystal Palace scored through Owen Garvan (27', penalty).

Discipline: Blackpool received no yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Blackpool were 9th on 39 points from 26 and Crystal Palace 13th on 37 points from 26. Blackpool went on to finish that season 4th with 79 points, and Crystal Palace 17th with 56.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Blackpool win, 5 draws and 1 for Crystal Palace.

Going into the match Blackpool's last five read D-W-L-W-D and Crystal Palace's D-L-W-L-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 27'Penalty goal · Owen GarvanCrystal Palace · 0-1
  • 84'Yellow card · Alex MarrowCrystal Palace
  • 85'Goal · E. GrandinBlackpool · 1-1
  • 90'Goal · Chris BashamBlackpool · 2-1

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Blackpool 1, draws 5, Crystal Palace 1.

Team news

Blackpool line-up

Stephen Crainey, Alex Baptiste, Craig Cathcart, Ludovic Sylvestre, Matt Phillips, John Fleck, Tom Ince, Matthew Gilks, Ian Ross Evatt, Gary Taylor-Fletcher, Barry Ferguson

Crystal Palace line-up

Lewis Price, Matthew Parsons, Paul McShane, John Egan, Mustapha Dumbuya, Owen Garvan, Stuart O'Keefe, Kieron Cadogan, Ibra Sekajja, Calvin Andrew, David Wright