Crystal Palace 0-2 Liverpool: result and report

Premier League · Monday 20 August 2018

Result

Crystal Palace 0-2 Liverpool

Premier League · Monday 20 August 2018, 19:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Crystal Palace 0-2 Liverpool: match report

Crystal Palace lost to Liverpool 0-2 in the Premier League on Monday 20 August 2018. The half-time score was 0-1.

James Milner opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Crystal Palace did not score. Liverpool scored through James Milner (45', penalty) and Sadio Mané (90+3').

Discipline: Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Liverpool received 1 yellow card.

Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 12th with 49 points, and Liverpool 2nd with 97.

Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-4-2 and Liverpool in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Sadio Mané of Liverpool (8.3), ahead of Virgil van Dijk (7.8).

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 42'Yellow card · Patrick van AanholtCrystal Palace
  • 45'Penalty goal · James MilnerLiverpool · 0-1
  • 52'Yellow card · Trent Alexander-ArnoldLiverpool
  • 75'Red card · Aaron Wan-BissakaCrystal Palace
  • 90+3'Goal · Sadio ManéLiverpool · 0-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Crystal Palace 5, draws 0, Liverpool 5.

Team news

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

Wayne Hennessey, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, James Tomkins, Mamadou Sakho, Patrick van Aanholt, Andros Townsend, Luka Milivojevic, James McArthur, Jeffrey Schlupp, Christian Benteke, Wilfried Zaha

Liverpool line-up (4-3-3)

Alisson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Joe Gomez, Virgil van Dijk, Andrew Robertson, James Milner, Georginio Wijnaldum, Naby Keïta, Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mané