Crystal Palace 2-1 Watford: result and report
Premier League · Tuesday 12 December 2017
Result
Crystal Palace 2-1 Watford
Premier League · Tuesday 12 December 2017, 20:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Crystal Palace 2-1 Watford: match report
Crystal Palace beat Watford 2-1 in the Premier League on Tuesday 12 December 2017. The half-time score was 0-1.
Daryl Janmaat opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Bakary Sako (89') and James McArthur (90+2'). Watford scored through Daryl Janmaat (3').
Discipline: Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards; Watford received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 20th on 11 points from 16 and Watford 9th on 22 points from 16. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 11th with 44 points, and Watford 14th with 41.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-4-2 and Watford in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Scott Dann of Crystal Palace (7.8), level with James McArthur (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Crystal Palace wins, 1 draw and 1 for Watford.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Daryl Janmaat
- 63'Yellow card · Luka Milivojevic
- 78'Yellow card · Tom Cleverley
- 85'Yellow card · Patrick van Aanholt
- 87'Second yellow · Tom Cleverley
- 89'Goal · Bakary Sako
- 90+1'Yellow card · Roberto Pereyra
- 90+2'Goal · James McArthur
Head-to-head
Team news
Crystal Palace line-up (4-4-2)
Julián Speroni, Timothy Fosu-Mensah, James Tomkins, Scott Dann, Jeffrey Schlupp, Andros Townsend, Yohan Cabaye, Luka Milivojevic, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Wilfried Zaha, Christian Benteke
Watford line-up (3-4-2-1)
Heurelho Gomes, Adrian Mariappa, Sebastian Prödl, Christian Kabasele, Daryl Janmaat, Tom Cleverley, Abdoulaye Doucouré, José Holebas, André Carrillo, Richarlison, Troy Deeney