Crystal Palace 2-2 Arsenal: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 28 October 2018

Result

Crystal Palace 2-2 Arsenal

Premier League · Sunday 28 October 2018, 13:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Crystal Palace 2-2 Arsenal: match report

Crystal Palace drew with Arsenal 2-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 28 October 2018. The half-time score was 1-0.

Luka Milivojevic opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Luka Milivojevic (45+1', penalty) and Luka Milivojevic (83', penalty). Arsenal scored through Granit Xhaka (51') and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (56').

Discipline: Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card; Arsenal received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 15th on 7 points from 9 and Arsenal 4th on 21 points from 9. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 12th with 49 points, and Arsenal 5th with 70.

Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-4-2 and Arsenal in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Luka Milivojevic of Crystal Palace (8.3), level with Wilfried Zaha (8.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Crystal Palace win, 1 draw and 8 for Arsenal.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Yellow card · Jordan AyewCrystal Palace
  • 45+1'Penalty goal · Luka MilivojevicCrystal Palace · 1-0
  • 51'Goal · Granit XhakaArsenal · 1-1
  • 56'Goal · Pierre-Emerick AubameyangArsenal · 1-2
  • 79'Yellow card · Stephan LichtsteinerArsenal
  • 83'Penalty goal · Luka MilivojevicCrystal Palace · 2-2
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Mattéo GuendouziArsenal

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Crystal Palace 1, draws 1, Arsenal 8.

Team news

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

Wayne Hennessey, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, James Tomkins, Mamadou Sakho, Patrick van Aanholt, Andros Townsend, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Luka Milivojevic, James McArthur, Jordan Ayew, Wilfried Zaha

Arsenal line-up (4-2-3-1)

Bernd Leno, Héctor Bellerín, Shkodran Mustafi, Rob Holding, Granit Xhaka, Lucas Torreira, Mattéo Guendouzi, Alex Iwobi, Mesut Özil, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette