Crystal Palace 3-1 AZ Alkmaar: result and report
Europa Conference League · Thursday 6 November 2025
Result
Crystal Palace 3-1 AZ Alkmaar
Europa Conference League · Thursday 6 November 2025, 20:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Crystal Palace · AZ Alkmaar · Europa Conference League predictions
Crystal Palace 3-1 AZ Alkmaar: match report
Crystal Palace defeated AZ Alkmaar 3-1 in the Europa Conference League on Thursday 6 November 2025. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Maxence Lacroix opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Maxence Lacroix (22'), Ismaïla Sarr (45+4') and Ismaïla Sarr (57'). AZ Alkmaar scored through Sven Mijnans (54').
Discipline: Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards; AZ Alkmaar received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 49th on 7 points from 4 and AZ Alkmaar 4th on 18 points from 8. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa Conference League season and is kept for reference.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and AZ Alkmaar in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ismaïla Sarr of Crystal Palace (8.7), ahead of Maxence Lacroix (8.1).
Going into the match Crystal Palace's last five read L-W-D-W and AZ Alkmaar's W-L-W-W-W.
Key events
- 17'Missed penalty · Jean-Philippe Mateta
- 22'Goal · Maxence Lacroix
- 45+4'Goal · Ismaïla Sarr
- 52'Yellow card · Ismaïla Sarr
- 54'Goal · Sven Mijnans
- 57'Goal · Ismaïla Sarr
- 67'Yellow card · Ibrahim Sadiq
- 75'Yellow card · Kees Smit
- 90+3'Yellow card · Marc Guéhi
Team news
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Crystal Palace line-up (3-4-2-1)
Dean Henderson, Chris Richards, Maxence Lacroix, Marc Guéhi, Daniel Muñoz, Will Hughes, Jefferson Lerma, Tyrick Mitchell, Ismaïla Sarr, Yéremy Pino, Jean-Philippe Mateta
AZ Alkmaar line-up (4-2-3-1)
Rome-Jayden Owusu-Oduro, Elijah Dijkstra, Wouter Goes, Alexandre Penetra, Mateo Chávez, Peer Koopmeiners, Kees Smit, Weslley Patati, Sven Mijnans, Ibrahim Sadiq, Troy Parrott