Crystal Palace 1-1 Fulham: result and report
Premier League · Thursday 1 January 2026
Result
Crystal Palace 1-1 Fulham
Premier League · Thursday 1 January 2026, 17:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
Crystal Palace 1-1 Fulham: match report
Crystal Palace drew with Fulham 1-1 in the Premier League on Thursday 1 January 2026. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Jean-Philippe Mateta opened the scoring in the 39th minute. Crystal Palace's goal came from Jean-Philippe Mateta (39'). Fulham scored through Tom Cairney (80').
Discipline: Crystal Palace received no yellow cards; Fulham received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 11th on 26 points from 18 and Fulham 12th on 26 points from 18. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 15th with 45 points, and Fulham 11th with 52.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Fulham in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Nathaniel Clyne of Crystal Palace (7.5), ahead of Tom Cairney (7.4).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Crystal Palace wins, 4 draws and 2 for Fulham.
Going into the match Crystal Palace's last five read L-L-L-W-W and Fulham's W-W-W-L-L.
Key events
- 19'Yellow card · Jorge Cuenca
- 39'Goal · Jean-Philippe Mateta
- 46'Yellow card · Joachim Andersen
- 60'Yellow card · Emile Smith Rowe
- 80'Goal · Tom Cairney
- 81'Yellow card · Tom Cairney
- 88'Yellow card · Timothy Castagne
Head-to-head
Team news
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Crystal Palace line-up (3-4-2-1)
Dean Henderson, Jefferson Lerma, Maxence Lacroix, Marc Guéhi, Nathaniel Clyne, Adam Wharton, Will Hughes, Tyrick Mitchell, Justin Devenny, Yéremy Pino, Jean-Philippe Mateta
Fulham line-up (4-2-3-1)
Bernd Leno, Kenny Tete, Joachim Andersen, Jorge Cuenca, Antonee Robinson, Saša Lukić, Sander Berge, Harry Wilson, Emile Smith Rowe, Kevin, Raúl Jiménez