Crystal Palace 3-0 Southampton: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 3 December 2016
Result
Crystal Palace 3-0 Southampton
Premier League · Saturday 3 December 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Crystal Palace 3-0 Southampton: match report
Crystal Palace won against Southampton 3-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 3 December 2016. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Christian Benteke opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Christian Benteke (33'), James Tomkins (36') and Christian Benteke (85'). Southampton did not score.
Discipline: Crystal Palace received 3 yellow cards; Southampton received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 17th on 11 points from 13 and Southampton 10th on 17 points from 13. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 14th with 41 points, and Southampton 8th with 46.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Southampton in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Sofiane Boufal of Southampton (8.4), ahead of Christian Benteke (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Crystal Palace win, 2 draws and 5 for Southampton.
Key events
- 33'Goal · Christian Benteke
- 36'Goal · James Tomkins
- 37'Yellow card · James Tomkins
- 51'Yellow card · Charlie Austin
- 55'Yellow card · James McArthur
- 70'Yellow card · Christian Benteke
- 85'Goal · Christian Benteke
Head-to-head
Team news
Crystal Palace line-up (4-2-3-1)
Wayne Hennessey, James Tomkins, Scott Dann, Damien Delaney, Joel Ward, James McArthur, Joe Ledley, Andros Townsend, Jason Puncheon, Wilfried Zaha, Christian Benteke
Southampton line-up (4-3-3)
Fraser Forster, Cédric Soares, José Fonte, Virgil van Dijk, Ryan Bertrand, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Oriol Romeu, James Ward-Prowse, Nathan Redmond, Charlie Austin, Sofiane Boufal