Crystal Palace 1-3 Arsenal: result and report
Premier League · Wednesday 19 May 2021
Result
Crystal Palace 1-3 Arsenal
Premier League · Wednesday 19 May 2021, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Crystal Palace 1-3 Arsenal: match report
Crystal Palace lost to Arsenal 1-3 in the Premier League on Wednesday 19 May 2021. The half-time score was 0-1.
Nicolas Pépé opened the scoring in the 35th minute. Crystal Palace's goal came from Christian Benteke (62'). Arsenal scored through Nicolas Pépé (35'), Gabriel Martinelli (90+1') and Nicolas Pépé (90+5').
Discipline: Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards; Arsenal received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 13th on 44 points from 36 and Arsenal 10th on 55 points from 36. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 14th with 44 points, and Arsenal 8th with 61.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-3-3 and Arsenal in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Andros Townsend of Crystal Palace (8.5), ahead of Nicolas Pépé (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Crystal Palace wins, 5 draws and 3 for Arsenal.
Key events
- 5'Yellow card · Jeffrey Schlupp
- 35'Goal · Nicolas Pépé
- 37'Yellow card · Christian Benteke
- 37'Yellow card · Mohamed Elneny
- 62'Goal · Christian Benteke
- 90+1'Goal · Gabriel Martinelli
- 90+5'Goal · Nicolas Pépé
Head-to-head
Team news
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Crystal Palace line-up (4-3-3)
Vicente Guaita, Joel Ward, James Tomkins, Gary Cahill, Tyrick Mitchell, Cheikhou Kouyaté, James McCarthy, Jeffrey Schlupp, Andros Townsend, Christian Benteke, Wilfried Zaha
Arsenal line-up (4-2-3-1)
Bernd Leno, Calum Chambers, Rob Holding, Gabriel, Kieran Tierney, Thomas Partey, Mohamed Elneny, Nicolas Pépé, Emile Smith Rowe, Bukayo Saka, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang