Crystal Palace 2-2 Southampton: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 7 May 2005

Result

Crystal Palace 2-2 Southampton

Premier League · Saturday 7 May 2005, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Crystal Palace · Southampton · Premier League predictions

Crystal Palace 2-2 Southampton: match report

Crystal Palace drew with Southampton 2-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 7 May 2005. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Fitz Hall opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Fitz Hall (34') and Nicola Ventola (72'). Southampton scored through Peter Crouch (37', penalty) and Danny Higginbotham (90').

Discipline: Crystal Palace received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Southampton received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 18th on 31 points from 36 and Southampton 17th on 31 points from 36. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 18th with 33 points, and Southampton 20th with 32.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Crystal Palace wins, 1 draw and 0 for Southampton.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 22'Yellow card · Andy JohnsonCrystal Palace
  • 34'Goal · Fitz HallCrystal Palace · 1-0
  • 37'Penalty goal · Peter CrouchSouthampton · 1-1
  • 58'Red card · Peter CrouchSouthampton
  • 59'Red card · Gonzalo Sorondo AmaroCrystal Palace
  • 62'Yellow card · Fitz HallCrystal Palace
  • 72'Goal · Nicola VentolaCrystal Palace · 2-1
  • 74'Yellow card · Nicola VentolaCrystal Palace
  • 86'Yellow card · Kevin PhillipsSouthampton
  • 90'Goal · Danny HigginbothamSouthampton · 2-2

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Crystal Palace 0, draws 1, Southampton 0.

Team news

Southampton expected line-up

Antti Niemi, Claus Lundekvam, Danny Higginbotham, Paul Telfer, Anders Svensson, Fabrice Fernandes, David Prutton, Kevin Phillips, Rory Delap