Crystal Palace 2-1 Preston North End: result and report

Championship · Saturday 7 March 2009

Result

Crystal Palace 2-1 Preston North End

Championship · Saturday 7 March 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Crystal Palace 2-1 Preston North End: match report

Crystal Palace defeated Preston North End 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 7 March 2009. The half-time score was 2-1.

Billy Jones opened the scoring in the 29th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Anthony Stokes (32') and N. Danns (34'). Preston North End scored through Billy Jones (29').

Discipline: Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card; Preston North End received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 16th on 44 points from 34 and Preston North End 6th on 56 points from 36. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 15th with 57 points, and Preston North End 6th with 75.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Crystal Palace wins, 2 draws and 2 for Preston North End.

Going into the match Crystal Palace's last five read L-L-D-L-W and Preston North End's L-W-L-W-D.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Goal · Billy JonesPreston North End · 0-1
  • 32'Goal · Anthony StokesCrystal Palace · 1-1
  • 34'Goal · N. DannsCrystal Palace · 2-1
  • 39'Yellow card · Claude DavisCrystal Palace

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Crystal Palace 3, draws 2, Preston North End 2.