Crystal Palace 2-1 Stoke City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 7 May 2016
Result
Crystal Palace 2-1 Stoke City
Premier League · Saturday 7 May 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Crystal Palace 2-1 Stoke City: match report
Crystal Palace beat Stoke City 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 7 May 2016. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Charlie Adam opened the scoring in the 26th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Dwight Gayle (47') and Dwight Gayle (68'). Stoke City scored through Charlie Adam (26').
Discipline: Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards; Stoke City received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 15th on 39 points from 36 and Stoke City 13th on 42 points from 36. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 15th with 42 points, and Stoke City 13th with 45.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Stoke City in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Dwight Gayle of Crystal Palace (8.5), ahead of Marko Arnautovic (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Crystal Palace wins, 2 draws and 1 for Stoke City.
Key events
- 3'Yellow card · Glenn Whelan
- 21'Yellow card · Erik Pieters
- 26'Goal · Charlie Adam
- 33'Yellow card · James McArthur
- 47'Goal · Dwight Gayle
- 68'Goal · Dwight Gayle
- 87'Yellow card · Stephen Ireland
- 87'Yellow card · Stephen Ireland
- 90+1'Yellow card · Pape Souaré
Head-to-head
Team news
Crystal Palace line-up (4-2-3-1)
Wayne Hennessey, Joel Ward, Scott Dann, Damien Delaney, Pape Souaré, James McArthur, Yohan Cabaye, Yannick Bolasie, Jason Puncheon, Dwight Gayle, Connor Wickham
Stoke City line-up (4-1-4-1)
Jakob Haugaard, Phil Bardsley, Ryan Shawcross, Geoff Cameron, Erik Pieters, Glenn Whelan, Xherdan Shaqiri, Giannelli Imbula, Charlie Adam, Marko Arnautovic, Peter Crouch