AFC Bournemouth 2-2 Crystal Palace: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 7 April 2018

Result

AFC Bournemouth 2-2 Crystal Palace

Premier League · Saturday 7 April 2018, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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AFC Bournemouth 2-2 Crystal Palace: match report

AFC Bournemouth drew with Crystal Palace 2-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 7 April 2018. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Luka Milivojevic opened the scoring in the 47th minute. AFC Bournemouth's goals came from Lys Mousset (65') and Joshua King (89'). Crystal Palace scored through Luka Milivojevic (47') and Wilfried Zaha (75').

Discipline: AFC Bournemouth received 2 yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game AFC Bournemouth were 10th on 37 points from 32 and Crystal Palace 17th on 30 points from 32. AFC Bournemouth went on to finish that season 12th with 44 points, and Crystal Palace 11th with 44.

AFC Bournemouth lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Crystal Palace in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Ryan Fraser of AFC Bournemouth (8.5), ahead of Wilfried Zaha (8.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 AFC Bournemouth win, 3 draws and 1 for Crystal Palace.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 47'Goal · Luka MilivojevicCrystal Palace · 0-1
  • 65'Goal · Lys MoussetAFC Bournemouth · 1-1
  • 75'Goal · Wilfried ZahaCrystal Palace · 1-2
  • 76'Yellow card · Dan GoslingAFC Bournemouth
  • 82'Yellow card · Simon FrancisAFC Bournemouth
  • 89'Goal · Joshua KingAFC Bournemouth · 2-2
  • 90+3'Yellow card · James TomkinsCrystal Palace
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Yohan CabayeCrystal Palace

Head-to-head

5 meetings: AFC Bournemouth 1, draws 3, Crystal Palace 1.

Team news

AFC Bournemouth line-up (4-4-1-1)

Asmir Begović, Simon Francis, Steve Cook, Nathan Aké, Charlie Daniels, Dan Gosling, Marc Pugh, Lewis Cook, Ryan Fraser, Callum Wilson, Jermain Defoe

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

Wayne Hennessey, Patrick van Aanholt, James Tomkins, Mamadou Sakho, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Luka Milivojevic, Yohan Cabaye, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, James McArthur, Andros Townsend, Wilfried Zaha