Crystal Palace 2-3 Arsenal: result and report
Premier League · Thursday 28 December 2017
Result
Crystal Palace 2-3 Arsenal
Premier League · Thursday 28 December 2017, 20:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Crystal Palace 2-3 Arsenal: match report
Crystal Palace were beaten by Arsenal 2-3 in the Premier League on Thursday 28 December 2017. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Nurgzay Khayrulin opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Andros Townsend (49') and James Tomkins (89'). Arsenal scored through Nurgzay Khayrulin (25'), A. Sánchez (62') and A. Sánchez (66').
Discipline: Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card; Arsenal received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 16th on 18 points from 19 and Arsenal 6th on 34 points from 19. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 11th with 44 points, and Arsenal 6th with 63.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-4-2 and Arsenal in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Alexis Sánchez of Arsenal (9.4), ahead of Shkodran Mustafi (8.6).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Crystal Palace win, 2 draws and 7 for Arsenal.
Key events
- 25'Goal · Nurgzay Khayrulin
- 29'Yellow card · C. Chambers
- 45+2'Yellow card · Wilfried Zaha
- 49'Goal · Andros Townsend
- 62'Goal · A. Sánchez
- 66'Goal · A. Sánchez
- 89'Goal · James Tomkins
Head-to-head
Team news
Crystal Palace line-up (4-4-2)
Julián Speroni, Martin Kelly, James Tomkins, Scott Dann, Jeffrey Schlupp, Andros Townsend, Yohan Cabaye, Luka Milivojevic, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Christian Benteke, Wilfried Zaha
Arsenal line-up (3-4-2-1)
Petr Čech, Calum Chambers, Shkodran Mustafi, Laurent Koscielny, Héctor Bellerín, Granit Xhaka, J. Wilshere, Sead Kolasinac, Mesut Özil, Alexis Sánchez, Alexandre Lacazette