Derby County 3-2 Crystal Palace: result and report
Championship · Saturday 24 March 2012
Result
Derby County 3-2 Crystal Palace
Championship · Saturday 24 March 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Derby County 3-2 Crystal Palace: match report
Derby County beat Crystal Palace 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 24 March 2012. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Steven Davies opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Derby County's goals came from Steven Davies (6'), Jeff Hendrick (29') and Theo Robinson (49', penalty). Crystal Palace scored through Chris Martin (79') and Darren Ambrose (90').
Discipline: Derby County received 1 yellow card; Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Derby County were 13th on 52 points from 38 and Crystal Palace 11th on 53 points from 37. Derby County went on to finish that season 11th with 64 points, and Crystal Palace 17th with 56.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Derby County wins, 3 draws and 4 for Crystal Palace.
Going into the match Derby County's last five read L-W-W-L-W and Crystal Palace's W-D-D-D-W.
Key events
- 6'Goal · Steven Davies
- 29'Goal · Jeff Hendrick
- 48'Yellow card · Anthony Gardner
- 49'Penalty goal · Theo Robinson
- 74'Yellow card · Jason Shackell
- 79'Goal · Chris Martin
- 90'Goal · Darren Ambrose
Head-to-head
Team news
Derby County line-up
Frank Fielding, Gareth Roberts, Jason Shackell, Jeff Hendrick, Tom Naylor, Paul Green, Steven Davies, Theo Robinson, Craig Bryson, Jake Buxton, Ben Davies
Crystal Palace line-up
Julián Speroni, Nathaniel Clyne, Anthony Gardner, Darren Ambrose, Mile Jedinak, Sean Scannell, Glenn Murray, Chris Martin, Jonathan Parr, Patrick McCarthy, Kagisho Evidence Dikgacoi