Coventry City 1-1 Crystal Palace: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 6 March 2012

Result

Coventry City 1-1 Crystal Palace

Championship · Tuesday 6 March 2012, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Coventry City 1-1 Crystal Palace: match report

Coventry City drew with Crystal Palace 1-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 6 March 2012. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Darren Ambrose opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Coventry City's goal came from Cody McDonald (80'). Crystal Palace scored through Darren Ambrose (4', penalty).

Discipline: Coventry City received 3 yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Coventry City were 23rd on 28 points from 34 and Crystal Palace 12th on 47 points from 33. Coventry City went on to finish that season 23rd with 40 points, and Crystal Palace 17th with 56.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Coventry City wins, 3 draws and 5 for Crystal Palace.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Penalty goal · Darren AmbroseCrystal Palace · 0-1
  • 36'Yellow card · Jordan ClarkeCoventry City
  • 68'Yellow card · P. McShaneCrystal Palace
  • 69'Yellow card · Nathan CameronCoventry City
  • 73'Yellow card · Gary McSheffreyCoventry City
  • 80'Goal · Cody McDonaldCoventry City · 1-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Coventry City 2, draws 3, Crystal Palace 5.

Team news

Coventry City line-up

Joe Murphy, Richard Keogh, Martin Cranie, Jordan Clarke, Nathan Cameron, Carl Baker, Gary McSheffrey, Gary Deegan, Oliver Norwood, Alex Nimely, Clive Platt

Crystal Palace line-up

Julián Speroni, Anthony Gardner, Paul McShane, Darren Ambrose, Owen Garvan, Mile Jedinak, Wilfried Zaha, Chris Martin, Jonathan Parr, Patrick McCarthy, Jermaine Easter