Crystal Palace 3-2 Aston Villa: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 16 May 2021
Result
Crystal Palace 3-2 Aston Villa
Premier League · Sunday 16 May 2021, 11:00 UTC · half-time 1-2
Crystal Palace 3-2 Aston Villa: match report
Crystal Palace won against Aston Villa 3-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 16 May 2021. The half-time score was 1-2.
John McGinn opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Christian Benteke (32'), Wilfried Zaha (76') and T. Mitchell (84'). Aston Villa scored through John McGinn (17') and Anwar El Ghazi (34').
Discipline: Crystal Palace received 3 yellow cards; Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 14th on 41 points from 35 and Aston Villa 11th on 49 points from 35. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 14th with 44 points, and Aston Villa 11th with 55.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-3-3 and Aston Villa in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Tyrick Mitchell of Crystal Palace (8.6), ahead of Andros Townsend (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Crystal Palace wins, 1 draw and 4 for Aston Villa.
Key events
- 17'Goal · John McGinn
- 32'Goal · Christian Benteke
- 34'Goal · Anwar El Ghazi
- 50'Yellow card · John McGinn
- 73'Yellow card · Joel Ward
- 76'Goal · Wilfried Zaha
- 82'Yellow card · Cheikhou Kouyaté
- 84'Goal · T. Mitchell
- 86'Yellow card · Kortney Hause
- 90+2'Yellow card · Wilfried Zaha
Head-to-head
Team news
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Crystal Palace line-up (4-3-3)
Jack Butland, Joel Ward, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Gary Cahill, Tyrick Mitchell, Eberechi Eze, James McCarthy, Jeffrey Schlupp, Andros Townsend, Christian Benteke, Wilfried Zaha
Aston Villa line-up (4-3-3)
Emiliano Martínez, Ahmed Eissa El Mohamady Abdel Fattah, Ezri Konsa, Kortney Hause, Matt Targett, John McGinn, Douglas Luiz, Jacob Ramsey, Bertrand Traoré, Ollie Watkins, Anwar El Ghazi