Crystal Palace 3-1 Norwich City: result and report
Championship · Friday 26 December 2008
Result
Crystal Palace 3-1 Norwich City
Championship · Friday 26 December 2008, 13:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Crystal Palace 3-1 Norwich City: match report
Crystal Palace won against Norwich City 3-1 in the Championship on Friday 26 December 2008. It was 2-1 at half-time.
José Fonte opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from José Fonte (6'), José Fonte (31') and Danny Butterfield (90'). Norwich City scored through Gary Doherty (19').
Discipline: Crystal Palace received 4 yellow cards; Norwich City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 7th on 37 points from 24 and Norwich City 20th on 26 points from 24. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 15th with 57 points, and Norwich City 22nd with 46.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Crystal Palace wins, 4 draws and 1 for Norwich City.
Going into the match Crystal Palace's last five read D-W-W-W-D and Norwich City's W-L-L-W-L.
Key events
- 6'Goal · José Fonte
- 19'Goal · Gary Doherty
- 31'Goal · José Fonte
- 44'Yellow card · Shaun Derry
- 56'Yellow card · Mark Fotheringham
- 58'Yellow card · John Oster
- 78'Yellow card · Nick Carle
- 81'Yellow card · José Fonte
- 90'Goal · Danny Butterfield