Everton 1-1 Crystal Palace: result and report

Premier League · Friday 30 September 2016

Result

Everton 1-1 Crystal Palace

Premier League · Friday 30 September 2016, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Everton 1-1 Crystal Palace: match report

Everton drew with Crystal Palace 1-1 in the Premier League on Friday 30 September 2016. The half-time score was 1-0.

Romelu Lukaku opened the scoring in the 35th minute. Everton's goal came from Romelu Lukaku (35'). Crystal Palace scored through Christian Benteke (50').

Discipline: Everton received 5 yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Everton were 5th on 13 points from 6 and Crystal Palace 7th on 10 points from 6. Everton went on to finish that season 7th with 61 points, and Crystal Palace 14th with 41.

Everton lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Crystal Palace in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Joel Ward of Crystal Palace (8.2), ahead of Ross Barkley (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Everton wins, 4 draws and 1 for Crystal Palace.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 16'Yellow card · Bryan OviedoEverton
  • 26'Yellow card · J. PuncheonCrystal Palace
  • 35'Goal · Romelu LukakuEverton · 1-0
  • 45+1'Yellow card · James TomkinsCrystal Palace
  • 50'Goal · Christian BentekeCrystal Palace · 1-1
  • 52'Yellow card · Christian BentekeCrystal Palace
  • 67'Yellow card · Andros TownsendCrystal Palace
  • 68'Yellow card · Gareth BarryEverton
  • 78'Yellow card · Idrissa GueyeEverton
  • 88'Yellow card · Yannick BolasieEverton
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Tom CleverleyEverton

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Everton 3, draws 4, Crystal Palace 1.

Team news

Everton line-up (4-3-1-2)

Maarten Stekelenburg, Séamus Coleman, Phil Jagielka, Ashley Williams, Bryan Oviedo, Idrissa Gueye, Gareth Barry, Tom Cleverley, Ross Barkley, Romelu Lukaku, Yannick Bolasie

Crystal Palace line-up (4-2-3-1)

Steve Mandanda, Joel Ward, James Tomkins, Damien Delaney, Martin Kelly, James McArthur, Joe Ledley, Andros Townsend, Jason Puncheon, Wilfried Zaha, Christian Benteke