Crystal Palace 2-4 Liverpool: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 29 October 2016

Result

Crystal Palace 2-4 Liverpool

Premier League · Saturday 29 October 2016, 16:30 UTC · half-time 2-3

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Crystal Palace 2-4 Liverpool: match report

Crystal Palace were beaten by Liverpool 2-4 in the Premier League on Saturday 29 October 2016. It was 2-3 at half-time.

Emre Can opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from James McArthur (18') and James McArthur (33'). Liverpool scored through Emre Can (16'), Dejan Lovren (21'), Joel Matip (44') and Roberto Firmino (71').

Discipline: Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card; Liverpool received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 12th on 11 points from 9 and Liverpool 3rd on 20 points from 9. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 14th with 41 points, and Liverpool 4th with 76.

Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Liverpool in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Philippe Coutinho of Liverpool (8.6), ahead of Jordan Henderson (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Crystal Palace wins, 0 draws and 3 for Liverpool.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 16'Goal · Emre CanLiverpool · 0-1
  • 18'Goal · James McArthurCrystal Palace · 1-1
  • 21'Goal · Dejan LovrenLiverpool · 1-2
  • 33'Goal · James McArthurCrystal Palace · 2-2
  • 44'Goal · Joel MatipLiverpool · 2-3
  • 49'Yellow card · Emre CanLiverpool
  • 62'Yellow card · Yohan CabayeCrystal Palace
  • 71'Goal · Roberto FirminoLiverpool · 2-4
  • 72'Yellow card · Roberto FirminoLiverpool

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Crystal Palace 5, draws 0, Liverpool 3.

Team news

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

Steve Mandanda, Joel Ward, Scott Dann, James Tomkins, Martin Kelly, Yohan Cabaye, Joe Ledley, Wilfried Zaha, James McArthur, Chung-yong Lee, Christian Benteke

Liverpool line-up (4-3-3)

Loris Karius, Nathaniel Clyne, Joël Matip, Dejan Lovren, Alberto Moreno, Adam Lallana, Jordan Henderson, Emre Can, Sadio Mané, Roberto Firmino, Philippe Coutinho