Crystal Palace 2-1 Stoke City: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 25 November 2017
Result
Crystal Palace 2-1 Stoke City
Premier League · Saturday 25 November 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Crystal Palace 2-1 Stoke City: match report
Crystal Palace beat Stoke City 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 25 November 2017. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Xherdan Shaqiri opened the scoring in the 53rd minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Ruben Loftus-Cheek (56') and Mamadou Sakho (90+2'). Stoke City scored through Xherdan Shaqiri (53').
Discipline: Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card; Stoke City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 20th on 5 points from 12 and Stoke City 15th on 13 points from 12. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 11th with 44 points, and Stoke City 19th with 33.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-4-2 and Stoke City in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Xherdan Shaqiri of Stoke City (8.4), ahead of Mamadou Sakho (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Crystal Palace wins, 2 draws and 2 for Stoke City.
Key events
- 53'Goal · Xherdan Shaqiri
- 56'Goal · Ruben Loftus-Cheek
- 63'Yellow card · Kevin Wimmer
- 84'Yellow card · James Tomkins
- 90+2'Goal · Mamadou Sakho
Head-to-head
Team news
Crystal Palace line-up (4-4-2)
Wayne Hennessey, Joel Ward, James Tomkins, Mamadou Sakho, Jeffrey Schlupp, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Yohan Cabaye, Luka Milivojevic, James McArthur, Andros Townsend, Wilfried Zaha
Stoke City line-up (3-4-2-1)
Lee Grant, Kurt Zouma, Ryan Shawcross, Kevin Wimmer, Mame Diouf, Darren Fletcher, Joe Allen, Erik Pieters, Xherdan Shaqiri, Ramadan Sobhi, Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting