Crystal Palace 2-4 Liverpool: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 29 October 2016
Result
Crystal Palace 2-4 Liverpool
Premier League · Saturday 29 October 2016, 16:30 UTC · half-time 2-3
Crystal Palace 2-4 Liverpool: match report
Crystal Palace were beaten by Liverpool 2-4 in the Premier League on Saturday 29 October 2016. It was 2-3 at half-time.
Emre Can opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from James McArthur (18') and James McArthur (33'). Liverpool scored through Emre Can (16'), Dejan Lovren (21'), Joel Matip (44') and Roberto Firmino (71').
Discipline: Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card; Liverpool received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 12th on 11 points from 9 and Liverpool 3rd on 20 points from 9. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 14th with 41 points, and Liverpool 4th with 76.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Liverpool in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Philippe Coutinho of Liverpool (8.6), ahead of Jordan Henderson (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Crystal Palace wins, 0 draws and 3 for Liverpool.
Key events
- 16'Goal · Emre Can
- 18'Goal · James McArthur
- 21'Goal · Dejan Lovren
- 33'Goal · James McArthur
- 44'Goal · Joel Matip
- 49'Yellow card · Emre Can
- 62'Yellow card · Yohan Cabaye
- 71'Goal · Roberto Firmino
- 72'Yellow card · Roberto Firmino
Head-to-head
Team news
Crystal Palace line-up (4-2-3-1)
Steve Mandanda, Joel Ward, Scott Dann, James Tomkins, Martin Kelly, Yohan Cabaye, Joe Ledley, Wilfried Zaha, James McArthur, Chung-yong Lee, Christian Benteke
Liverpool line-up (4-3-3)
Loris Karius, Nathaniel Clyne, Joël Matip, Dejan Lovren, Alberto Moreno, Adam Lallana, Jordan Henderson, Emre Can, Sadio Mané, Roberto Firmino, Philippe Coutinho