Watford 2-2 Crystal Palace: result and report

Championship · Friday 8 February 2013

Result

Watford 2-2 Crystal Palace

Championship · Friday 8 February 2013, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-0

Watford · Crystal Palace · Championship predictions

Watford 2-2 Crystal Palace: match report

Watford drew with Crystal Palace 2-2 in the Championship on Friday 8 February 2013. The half-time score was 2-0.

Almen Abdi opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Watford's goals came from Almen Abdi (7') and Nathaniel Chalobah (14'). Crystal Palace scored through Peter Ramage (66') and Kevin Phillips (70').

Discipline: Watford received 5 yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Watford were 5th on 50 points from 30 and Crystal Palace 4th on 51 points from 30. Watford went on to finish that season 2nd with 79 points, and Crystal Palace 4th with 77.

Watford lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Crystal Palace in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Watford wins, 2 draws and 6 for Crystal Palace.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Yellow card · Fitz HallWatford
  • 7'Goal · Almen AbdiWatford · 1-0
  • 14'Goal · Nathaniel ChalobahWatford · 2-0
  • 32'Yellow card · Troy DeeneyWatford
  • 32'Yellow card · Alex MarrowCrystal Palace
  • 65'Yellow card · Marco CassettiWatford
  • 66'Goal · Peter RamageCrystal Palace · 2-1
  • 70'Goal · Kevin PhillipsCrystal Palace · 2-2
  • 81'Yellow card · Glenn MurrayCrystal Palace
  • 85'Yellow card · Nathaniel ChalobahWatford
  • 90'Yellow card · Daniel PudilWatford

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Watford 2, draws 2, Crystal Palace 6.

Team news

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

Almunia, Fitz Hall, Lloyd Doyley, Daniel Pudil, Marco Cassetti, Tommie Hoban, Jonathan Hogg, Almen Abdi, Nathaniel Chalobah, Troy Deeney, Matej Vydra

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

Julián Speroni, Jazz Richards, Dean Moxey, Damien Delaney, Peter Ramage, Kagisho Evidence Dikgacoi, Alex Marrow, Yannick Bolasie, Stephen Dobbie, Wilfried Zaha, Glenn Murray