Crystal Palace 3-0 Southampton: result and report

Championship · Monday 8 December 2008

Result

Crystal Palace 3-0 Southampton

Championship · Monday 8 December 2008, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Crystal Palace 3-0 Southampton: match report

Crystal Palace beat Southampton 3-0 in the Championship on Monday 8 December 2008. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Shefki Kuqi opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Shefki Kuqi (9'), Craig Beattie (15') and P. Ifill (75'). Southampton did not score.

Discipline: Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card; Southampton received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 9th on 30 points from 21 and Southampton 20th on 22 points from 21. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 15th with 57 points, and Southampton 23rd with 45.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Crystal Palace wins, 5 draws and 1 for Southampton.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Shefki KuqiCrystal Palace · 1-0
  • 15'Goal · Craig BeattieCrystal Palace · 2-0
  • 43'Yellow card · Clint HillCrystal Palace
  • 75'Goal · P. IfillCrystal Palace · 3-0
  • 87'Yellow card · Chris PerrySouthampton

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Crystal Palace 2, draws 5, Southampton 1.

Team news

Southampton expected line-up

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