Crystal Palace 1-0 Watford: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 7 March 2020
Result
Crystal Palace 1-0 Watford
Premier League · Saturday 7 March 2020, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Crystal Palace 1-0 Watford: match report
Crystal Palace won against Watford 1-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 7 March 2020. It was 1-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Jordan Ayew of Crystal Palace in the 28th minute.
Discipline: Crystal Palace received 4 yellow cards; Watford received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 12th on 36 points from 28 and Watford 17th on 27 points from 28. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 14th with 43 points, and Watford 19th with 34.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-3-3 and Watford in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Vicente Guaita of Crystal Palace (8.5), ahead of Christian Benteke (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Crystal Palace wins, 3 draws and 3 for Watford.
Going into the match Crystal Palace's last five read W-W-L-L-L and Watford's W-L-D-L-L.
Key events
- 28'Goal · Jordan Ayew
- 31'Yellow card · Kiko Femenía
- 41'Yellow card · Wilfried Zaha
- 50'Yellow card · Étienne Capoue
- 50'Yellow card · Cheikhou Kouyaté
- 52'Yellow card · Abdoulaye Doucouré
- 59'Yellow card · Christian Benteke
- 85'Yellow card · Ignacio Pussetto
- 90+4'Yellow card · Jordan Ayew
Head-to-head
Team news
Crystal Palace line-up (4-3-3)
Vicente Guaita, Joel Ward, Scott Dann, Gary Cahill, Patrick van Aanholt, Cheikhou Kouyaté, James McCarthy, James McArthur, Jordan Ayew, Christian Benteke, Wilfried Zaha
Watford line-up (4-2-3-1)
Ben Foster, Kiko Femenía, Christian Kabasele, Craig Cathcart, Adam Masina, Will Hughes, Étienne Capoue, Ismaïla Sarr, Abdoulaye Doucouré, Brian Gartland, Troy Deeney