Crystal Palace 2-0 Sheffield United: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 2 January 2021
Result
Crystal Palace 2-0 Sheffield United
Premier League · Saturday 2 January 2021, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
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Crystal Palace 2-0 Sheffield United: match report
Crystal Palace defeated Sheffield United 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 2 January 2021. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Jeffrey Schlupp opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Jeffrey Schlupp (4') and E. Eze (45+6'). Sheffield United did not score.
Discipline: Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card; Sheffield United received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 15th on 19 points from 16 and Sheffield United 20th on 2 points from 16. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 14th with 44 points, and Sheffield United 20th with 23.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-4-2 and Sheffield United in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to James McArthur of Crystal Palace (8.2), ahead of Cheikhou Kouyaté (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Crystal Palace wins, 0 draws and 2 for Sheffield United.
Key events
- 4'Goal · Jeffrey Schlupp
- 45+1'Yellow card · Jayden Bogle
- 45+6'Goal · E. Eze
- 63'Yellow card · Oliver Norwood
- 67'Yellow card · E. Eze
- 89'Yellow card · John Fleck
Head-to-head
Team news
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- Gary Cahill
- Martin Kelly
- Jack O'Connell
- Jack Robinson
- Connor Wickham
- Nathan Ferguson
- Sander Berge
- Wayne Hennessey
- Adam Davies
- Tommy Doyle
- Oli McBurnie
Crystal Palace line-up (4-4-2)
Vicente Guaita, Joel Ward, James Tomkins, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Tyrick Mitchell, Andros Townsend, James McArthur, Luka Milivojevic, Jeffrey Schlupp, Christian Benteke, Wilfried Zaha
Sheffield United line-up (3-5-2)
Aaron Ramsdale, Ethan Ampadu, John Egan, Enda Stevens, Jayden Bogle, Chris Basham, Oliver Norwood, John Fleck, Ben Osborn, David McGoldrick, Lys Mousset