Crystal Palace 1-2 Watford: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 12 January 2019
Result
Crystal Palace 1-2 Watford
Premier League · Saturday 12 January 2019, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Crystal Palace 1-2 Watford: match report
Crystal Palace lost to Watford 1-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 12 January 2019. The half-time score was 1-0.
Crystal Palace's goal came from an own goal by Craig Cathcart (38'). Watford scored through Craig Cathcart (67') and Tom Cleverley (74').
Discipline: Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card; Watford received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 14th on 22 points from 21 and Watford 9th on 29 points from 21. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 12th with 49 points, and Watford 11th with 50.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-3-3 and Watford in a 4-2-2-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Luka Milivojevic of Crystal Palace (7.8), ahead of Aaron Wan-Bissaka (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Crystal Palace wins, 2 draws and 2 for Watford.
Going into the match Crystal Palace's last five read W-L-D-W-W and Watford's D-D-L-W-W.
Key events
- 38'Own goal · Craig Cathcart
- 61'Yellow card · Kiko Femenía
- 65'Yellow card · Ken Sema
- 67'Goal · Craig Cathcart
- 74'Goal · Tom Cleverley
- 84'Yellow card · Luka Milivojevic
- 90+1'Yellow card · Roberto Pereyra
- 90+4'Yellow card · Tom Cleverley
Head-to-head
Team news
Crystal Palace line-up (4-3-3)
Vicente Guaita, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, James Tomkins, Mamadou Sakho, Patrick van Aanholt, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Luka Milivojevic, James McArthur, Andros Townsend, Jordan Ayew, Wilfried Zaha
Watford line-up (4-2-2-2)
Ben Foster, Kiko Femenía, Adrian Mariappa, Craig Cathcart, José Holebas, Abdoulaye Doucouré, Étienne Capoue, Will Hughes, Brian Gartland, Gerard Deulofeu, Troy Deeney