Crystal Palace 3-2 Cardiff City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 22 September 2012

Result

Crystal Palace 3-2 Cardiff City

Championship · Saturday 22 September 2012, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

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Crystal Palace 3-2 Cardiff City: match report

Crystal Palace won against Cardiff City 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 22 September 2012. It was 0-2 at half-time.

A. Gunnarsson opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Glenn Murray (52', penalty), Glenn Murray (62') and Glenn Murray (72', penalty). Cardiff City scored through A. Gunnarsson (13') and Don Cowie (15').

Discipline: Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card; Cardiff City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 16th on 7 points from 6 and Cardiff City 5th on 13 points from 6. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 4th with 77 points, and Cardiff City 1st with 87.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Goal · A. GunnarssonCardiff City · 0-1
  • 15'Goal · Don CowieCardiff City · 0-2
  • 35'Yellow card · Kevin McNaughtonCardiff City
  • 45'Yellow card · Wilfried ZahaCrystal Palace
  • 52'Penalty goal · Glenn MurrayCrystal Palace · 1-2
  • 62'Goal · Glenn MurrayCrystal Palace · 2-2
  • 65'Yellow card · A. GunnarssonCardiff City
  • 72'Penalty goal · Glenn MurrayCrystal Palace · 3-2
  • 90'Yellow card · Kim Bo-KyungCardiff City

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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Crystal Palace line-up

Julián Speroni, Darcy Blake, Damien Delaney, Peter Ramage, Mile Jedinak, André Moritz, Yannick Bolasie, Wilfried Zaha, Glenn Murray, Jonathan Parr, Kagisho Evidence Dikgacoi

Cardiff City line-up

Txiki Acaz, Kevin McNaughton, Andrew Taylor, Matthew Connolly, Peter Whittingham, D. Cowie, Aron Gunnarsson, Tommy Smith, Heidar Helguson, Craig Bellamy, Mark Hudson