Crystal Palace 1-0 Middlesbrough: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 25 February 2017

Result

Crystal Palace 1-0 Middlesbrough

Premier League · Saturday 25 February 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Crystal Palace · Middlesbrough · Premier League predictions

Crystal Palace 1-0 Middlesbrough: match report

Crystal Palace beat Middlesbrough 1-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 25 February 2017. It was 1-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Patrick van Aanholt of Crystal Palace in the 34th minute.

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

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 19th on 19 points from 25 and Middlesbrough 16th on 22 points from 25. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 14th with 41 points, and Middlesbrough 19th with 28.

Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Middlesbrough in a 5-3-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Ben Gibson of Middlesbrough (7.7), ahead of Jason Puncheon (7.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Crystal Palace win, 0 draws and 2 for Middlesbrough.

Going into the match Crystal Palace's last five read L-L-W-L-L and Middlesbrough's D-L-D-L-D.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 30'Yellow card · Yohan CabayeCrystal Palace
  • 34'Goal · Patrick van AanholtCrystal Palace · 1-0
  • 75'Yellow card · FábioMiddlesbrough
  • 76'Yellow card · James McArthurCrystal Palace
  • 83'Yellow card · Joel WardCrystal Palace

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Crystal Palace 1, draws 0, Middlesbrough 2.

Team news

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

Wayne Hennessey, Joel Ward, James Tomkins, Mamadou Sakho, Patrick van Aanholt, Luka Milivojevic, Andros Townsend, Yohan Cabaye, Jason Puncheon, Wilfried Zaha, Christian Benteke

Middlesbrough line-up (5-3-2)

Víctor Valdés, Fábio, Yuki Takahashi, Bernardo Espinosa, Ben Gibson, Stewart Downing, Marten de Roon, Gastón Ramírez, Adam Forshaw, Álvaro Negredo, Cristhian Stuani