Reading 2-2 Crystal Palace: result and report

Championship · Saturday 21 April 2012

Result

Reading 2-2 Crystal Palace

Championship · Saturday 21 April 2012, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Reading 2-2 Crystal Palace: match report

Reading drew with Crystal Palace 2-2 in the Championship on Saturday 21 April 2012. The half-time score was 1-1.

Wilfried Zaha opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Reading's goals came from Kaspars Gorkss (20') and Adam Le Fondre (53'). Crystal Palace scored through Wilfried Zaha (14') and Glenn Murray (76').

Discipline: Reading received no yellow cards and 1 red card; Crystal Palace received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Reading were 1st on 88 points from 44 and Crystal Palace 16th on 55 points from 44. Reading went on to finish that season 2nd with 89 points, and Crystal Palace 17th with 56.

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

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Goal · Wilfried ZahaCrystal Palace · 0-1
  • 20'Goal · Kaspars GorkssReading · 1-1
  • 45'Red card · Jason RobertsReading
  • 53'Goal · Adam Le FondreReading · 2-1
  • 76'Goal · Glenn MurrayCrystal Palace · 2-2

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Reading 4, draws 4, Crystal Palace 1.

Team news

Reading line-up

Adam Federici, Alex Pearce, Kaspars Gorkss, Ian Harte, Shaun Cummings, Mikele Leigertwood, Jobi McAnuff, Hal Robson-Kanu, Jason Roberts, Noel Hunt, Hayden Mullins

Crystal Palace line-up

Julián Speroni, Dean Moxey, Paul McShane, Darren Ambrose, Owen Garvan, Stuart O'Keefe, Kyle De Silva, Wilfried Zaha, Glenn Murray, Jonathan Parr, Patrick McCarthy