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 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.
Key events
- 4'Yellow card · Fitz Hall
- 7'Goal · Almen Abdi
- 14'Goal · Nathaniel Chalobah
- 32'Yellow card · Troy Deeney
- 32'Yellow card · Alex Marrow
- 65'Yellow card · Marco Cassetti
- 66'Goal · Peter Ramage
- 70'Goal · Kevin Phillips
- 81'Yellow card · Glenn Murray
- 85'Yellow card · Nathaniel Chalobah
- 90'Yellow card · Daniel Pudil
Head-to-head
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