Cardiff City 2-1 Crystal Palace: result and report
Championship · Saturday 15 November 2008
Result
Cardiff City 2-1 Crystal Palace
Championship · Saturday 15 November 2008, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Cardiff City 2-1 Crystal Palace: match report
Cardiff City beat Crystal Palace 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 15 November 2008. The half-time score was 1-1.
Michael Chopra opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Cardiff City's goals came from Michael Chopra (33', penalty) and Joe Ledley (53'). Crystal Palace scored through Sean Scannell (37').
Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Crystal Palace received no yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Cardiff City were 6th on 25 points from 16 and Crystal Palace 16th on 20 points from 16. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 7th with 74 points, and Crystal Palace 15th with 57.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Cardiff City wins, 3 draws and 1 for Crystal Palace.
Going into the match Cardiff City's last five read L-L-W-W-D and Crystal Palace's W-D-L-D-L.
Key events
- 33'Penalty goal · Michael Chopra
- 37'Goal · Sean Scannell
- 53'Goal · Joe Ledley
- 67'Yellow card · Peter Whittingham
- 90'Missed penalty · Michael Chopra
- 90'Red card · Matt Lawrence