Arsenal 2-0 Crystal Palace: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 1 January 2017
Result
Arsenal 2-0 Crystal Palace
Premier League · Sunday 1 January 2017, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Arsenal 2-0 Crystal Palace: match report
Arsenal beat Crystal Palace 2-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 1 January 2017. The half-time score was 1-0.
Olivier Giroud opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Arsenal's goals came from Olivier Giroud (17') and Alex Iwobi (56'). Crystal Palace did not score.
Discipline: Arsenal received 1 yellow card; Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Arsenal were 5th on 37 points from 18 and Crystal Palace 17th on 16 points from 18. Arsenal went on to finish that season 5th with 75 points, and Crystal Palace 14th with 41.
Arsenal lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Crystal Palace in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Alex Iwobi of Arsenal (8.3), ahead of Alexis Sánchez (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Arsenal wins, 2 draws and 0 for Crystal Palace.
Going into the match Arsenal's last five read W-L-L-W-W and Crystal Palace's D-L-L-D-W.
Key events
- 17'Goal · Olivier Giroud
- 56'Goal · Alex Iwobi
- 83'Yellow card · Nacho Monreal
- 90'Yellow card · James Tomkins
Head-to-head
Team news
Arsenal line-up (4-2-3-1)
Petr Čech, Héctor Bellerín, Gabriel Paulista, Laurent Koscielny, Nacho Monreal, Mohamed Elneny, Granit Xhaka, Lucas Pérez, Alex Iwobi, Alexis Sánchez, Olivier Giroud
Crystal Palace line-up (4-2-3-1)
Wayne Hennessey, Martin Kelly, Scott Dann, James Tomkins, Joel Ward, Jason Puncheon, Mathieu Flamini, Andros Townsend, Yohan Cabaye, Wilfried Zaha, Christian Benteke