Crystal Palace 2-1 Doncaster Rovers: result and report
Championship · Saturday 13 December 2008
Result
Crystal Palace 2-1 Doncaster Rovers
Championship · Saturday 13 December 2008, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
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Crystal Palace 2-1 Doncaster Rovers: match report
Crystal Palace defeated Doncaster Rovers 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 13 December 2008. The half-time score was 1-1.
Paul Heffernan opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Shefki Kuqi (21', penalty) and Alan Lee (89'). Doncaster Rovers scored through Paul Heffernan (15').
Discipline: Crystal Palace received no yellow cards; Doncaster Rovers received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 8th on 33 points from 22 and Doncaster Rovers 22nd on 18 points from 22. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 15th with 57 points, and Doncaster Rovers 14th with 58.
Going into the match Crystal Palace's last five read W-W-D-W-W and Doncaster Rovers's L-W-D-D-D.
Key events
- 15'Goal · Paul Heffernan
- 20'Red card · Matthew Mills
- 21'Penalty goal · Shefki Kuqi
- 71'Yellow card · Stuart Elliott
- 86'Yellow card · M. Woods
- 89'Goal · Alan Lee