Crystal Palace 1-2 Cardiff City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 28 April 2012

Result

Crystal Palace 1-2 Cardiff City

Championship · Saturday 28 April 2012, 11:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Crystal Palace 1-2 Cardiff City: match report

Crystal Palace were beaten by Cardiff City 1-2 in the Championship on Saturday 28 April 2012. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Wilfried Zaha opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Crystal Palace's goal came from Wilfried Zaha (13'). Cardiff City scored through Peter Whittingham (53') and Don Cowie (62').

Discipline: Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards; Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 17th on 56 points from 45 and Cardiff City 6th on 72 points from 45. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 17th with 56 points, and Cardiff City 6th with 75.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Crystal Palace win, 5 draws and 4 for Cardiff City.

Going into the match Crystal Palace's last five read D-L-D-L-L and Cardiff City's D-W-W-D-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Goal · Wilfried ZahaCrystal Palace · 1-0
  • 45'Yellow card · Owen GarvanCrystal Palace
  • 50'Yellow card · Kenny MillerCardiff City
  • 52'Yellow card · Matthew ParsonsCrystal Palace
  • 53'Goal · Peter WhittinghamCardiff City · 1-1
  • 62'Goal · Don CowieCardiff City · 1-2
  • 64'Yellow card · A. GunnarssonCardiff City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Crystal Palace 1, draws 5, Cardiff City 4.

Team news

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Crystal Palace line-up

Lewis Price, Dean Moxey, Matthew Parsons, Darren Ambrose, Owen Garvan, Stuart O'Keefe, Sean Scannell, Wilfried Zaha, Glenn Murray, Jonathan Parr, Patrick McCarthy

Cardiff City line-up

Txiki Acaz, Kevin McNaughton, Andrew Taylor, Ben Turner, Peter Whittingham, D. Cowie, Liam Lawrence, Aron Gunnarsson, Joe Mason, Mark Hudson, Kenny Miller