Crystal Palace 4-1 Aston Villa: result and report

Premier League · Tuesday 25 February 2025

Result

Crystal Palace 4-1 Aston Villa

Premier League · Tuesday 25 February 2025, 19:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Crystal Palace 4-1 Aston Villa: match report

Crystal Palace beat Aston Villa 4-1 in the Premier League on Tuesday 25 February 2025. The half-time score was 1-0.

Ismaïla Sarr opened the scoring in the 29th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Ismaïla Sarr (29'), Jean-Philippe Mateta (59'), Ismaïla Sarr (71') and Eddie Nketiah (90+1'). Aston Villa scored through Morgan Rogers (52').

Discipline: Crystal Palace received 3 yellow cards; Aston Villa received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 13th on 33 points from 26 and Aston Villa 8th on 42 points from 27. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 12th with 53 points, and Aston Villa 6th with 66.

Crystal Palace lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Aston Villa in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Ismaïla Sarr of Crystal Palace (8.3), ahead of Eberechi Eze (8.2).

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Goal · Ismaïla SarrCrystal Palace · 1-0
  • 35'Yellow card · Will HughesCrystal Palace
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Daniel MuñozCrystal Palace
  • 52'Goal · Morgan RogersAston Villa · 1-1
  • 59'Goal · Jean-Philippe MatetaCrystal Palace · 2-1
  • 71'Goal · Ismaïla SarrCrystal Palace · 3-1
  • 82'Yellow card · Leon BaileyAston Villa
  • 87'Yellow card · Jefferson LermaCrystal Palace
  • 90+1'Goal · Eddie NketiahCrystal Palace · 4-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Crystal Palace 3, draws 2, Aston Villa 5.

Team news

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Crystal Palace line-up (3-4-2-1)

Dean Henderson, Chris Richards, Maxence Lacroix, Marc Guéhi, Daniel Muñoz, Adam Wharton, Will Hughes, Tyrick Mitchell, Ismaïla Sarr, Eberechi Eze, Jean-Philippe Mateta

Aston Villa line-up (3-4-3)

Emiliano Martínez, Axel Disasi, Ezri Konsa, Lamare Bogarde, Andrés García, John McGinn, Youri Tielemans, Lucas Digne, Morgan Rogers, Ollie Watkins, Jacob Ramsey