Crystal Palace 2-2 AFC Bournemouth: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 9 December 2017

Result

Crystal Palace 2-2 AFC Bournemouth

Premier League · Saturday 9 December 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-2

Crystal Palace · AFC Bournemouth · Premier League predictions

Crystal Palace 2-2 AFC Bournemouth: match report

Crystal Palace drew with AFC Bournemouth 2-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 9 December 2017. The half-time score was 2-2.

Jermain Defoe opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Luka Milivojevic (41', penalty) and S. Dann (44'). AFC Bournemouth scored through Jermain Defoe (10') and Jermain Defoe (45+3').

Discipline: Crystal Palace received 5 yellow cards; AFC Bournemouth received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 19th on 10 points from 15 and AFC Bournemouth 14th on 15 points from 15. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 11th with 44 points, and AFC Bournemouth 12th with 44.

Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-4-2 and AFC Bournemouth in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jermain Defoe of AFC Bournemouth (8.6), ahead of Andrew Surman (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Crystal Palace win, 2 draws and 1 for AFC Bournemouth.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Jermain DefoeAFC Bournemouth · 0-1
  • 30'Yellow card · James TomkinsCrystal Palace
  • 34'Yellow card · Luka MilivojevicCrystal Palace
  • 40'Yellow card · Asmir BegovicAFC Bournemouth
  • 41'Penalty goal · Luka MilivojevicCrystal Palace · 1-1
  • 44'Goal · S. DannCrystal Palace · 2-1
  • 45+3'Goal · Jermain DefoeAFC Bournemouth · 2-2
  • 71'Yellow card · Lewis CookAFC Bournemouth
  • 71'Yellow card · Wilfried ZahaCrystal Palace
  • 79'Yellow card · James McArthurCrystal Palace
  • 82'Yellow card · Christian BentekeCrystal Palace
  • 90+3'Missed penalty · Christian BentekeCrystal Palace

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Crystal Palace 1, draws 2, AFC Bournemouth 1.

Team news

Crystal Palace line-up (4-4-2)

Julián Speroni, Timothy Fosu-Mensah, James Tomkins, Mamadou Sakho, Jeffrey Schlupp, Andros Townsend, Yohan Cabaye, Luka Milivojevic, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Wilfried Zaha, Christian Benteke

AFC Bournemouth line-up (4-4-1-1)

Asmir Begović, Simon Francis, Steve Cook, Nathan Aké, Charlie Daniels, Junior Stanislas, Lewis Cook, Andrew Surman, Ryan Fraser, Joshua King, Jermain Defoe