Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace: result and report

Premier League · Wednesday 20 April 2016

Result

Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace

Premier League · Wednesday 20 April 2016, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Manchester United 1-0 Crystal Palace: match report

Manchester United beat Crystal Palace 1-0 in the Premier League on Wednesday 20 April 2016. The half-time score was 1-0.

Manchester United's goals came from an own goal by Damien Delaney (4') and Matteo Darmian (55'). Crystal Palace did not score.

Discipline: Manchester United received 1 yellow card; Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Manchester United were 6th on 55 points from 33 and Crystal Palace 15th on 39 points from 34. Manchester United went on to finish that season 4th with 66 points, and Crystal Palace 15th with 42.

Manchester United lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Crystal Palace in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Julián Speroni of Crystal Palace (8.2), ahead of Antonio Valencia (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Manchester United wins, 4 draws and 0 for Crystal Palace.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Own goal · Damien DelaneyManchester United · 1-0
  • 6'Yellow card · M. KellyCrystal Palace
  • 43'Yellow card · Pape SouaréCrystal Palace
  • 55'Goal · Matteo DarmianManchester United · 2-0
  • 62'Yellow card · Matteo DarmianManchester United

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Manchester United 4, draws 4, Crystal Palace 0.

Team news

Manchester United line-up (4-1-4-1)

David de Gea, Antonio Valencia, Chris Smalling, Daley Blind, Matteo Darmian, Morgan Schneiderlin, Jesse Lingard, Juan Mata, Wayne Mark Rooney, Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford

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

Julián Speroni, Martin Kelly, Adrian Mariappa, Damien Delaney, Pape Souaré, Yohan Cabaye, Mile Jedinak, Wilfried Zaha, Chung-yong Lee, Bakary Sako, Emmanuel Adebayor