Crystal Palace 2-3 Watford: result and report
Championship · Saturday 18 August 2012
Result
Crystal Palace 2-3 Watford
Championship · Saturday 18 August 2012, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Crystal Palace 2-3 Watford: match report
Crystal Palace were beaten by Watford 2-3 in the Championship on Saturday 18 August 2012. It was 2-1 at half-time.
Owen Garvan opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Crystal Palace's goals came from Owen Garvan (11', penalty) and Owen Garvan (29'). Watford scored through Martin Taylor (22'), Almen Abdi (88') and M. Vydra (90+4').
Discipline: Crystal Palace received no yellow cards; Watford received 1 yellow card.
Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 4th with 77 points, and Watford 2nd with 79.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Crystal Palace wins, 2 draws and 2 for Watford.
Key events
- 11'Penalty goal · Owen Garvan
- 22'Goal · Martin Taylor
- 29'Goal · Owen Garvan
- 81'Yellow card · Carl Dickinson
- 88'Goal · Almen Abdi
- 90+4'Goal · M. Vydra
Head-to-head
Team news
Crystal Palace line-up
Julián Speroni, Joel Ward, Aaron Martin, Dean Moxey, Peter Ramage, Owen Garvan, Mile Jedinak, Wilfried Zaha, Jonathan Parr, Kagisho Evidence Dikgacoi, Aaron Wilbraham
Watford line-up
Almunia, Carl Dickinson, Martin Taylor, Lloyd Doyley, Nyron Nosworthy, Mark Yeates, Jonathan Hogg, Sean Murray, Almen Abdi, Joe Garner, John Mark Eustace