Sheffield United 3-2 Crystal Palace: result and report

Championship · Saturday 20 November 2010

Result

Sheffield United 3-2 Crystal Palace

Championship · Saturday 20 November 2010, 17:20 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Sheffield United 3-2 Crystal Palace: match report

Sheffield United beat Crystal Palace 3-2 in the Championship on Saturday 20 November 2010. It was 1-1 at half-time.

N. Danns opened the scoring in the 18th minute. Sheffield United's goals came from Richard Cresswell (39', penalty), Ched Evans (85') and D. Bogdanović (87', penalty). Crystal Palace scored through N. Danns (18', penalty) and James Vaughan (63').

Discipline: Sheffield United received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Sheffield United were 21st on 19 points from 17 and Crystal Palace 22nd on 17 points from 17. Sheffield United went on to finish that season 23rd with 42 points, and Crystal Palace 20th with 48.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Sheffield United wins, 2 draws and 3 for Crystal Palace.

Going into the match Sheffield United's last five read W-D-L-L-L and Crystal Palace's W-W-L-L-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Penalty goal · N. DannsCrystal Palace · 0-1
  • 37'Yellow card · Owen GarvanCrystal Palace
  • 38'Second yellow · Owen GarvanCrystal Palace
  • 39'Penalty goal · Richard CresswellSheffield United · 1-1
  • 63'Goal · James VaughanCrystal Palace · 1-2
  • 76'Yellow card · Leon BrittonSheffield United
  • 78'Yellow card · N. ClyneCrystal Palace
  • 85'Goal · Ched EvansSheffield United · 2-2
  • 87'Penalty goal · D. BogdanovićSheffield United · 3-2
  • 90'Red card · D. BogdanovićSheffield United

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Sheffield United 3, draws 2, Crystal Palace 3.

Team news

Sheffield United expected line-up

Steve Simonsen, Nyron Nosworthy, Johannes Ertl, Phil Jagielka, S. Quinn, Mark Yeates, Rob Hulse, Richard Cresswell, Chris Morgan, Leon Britton

Crystal Palace line-up

Julián Speroni, Nathaniel Clyne, Claude Davis, Neil Danns, Owen Garvan, Alassane N'Diaye, Wilfried Zaha, James Vaughan, David Wright, Patrick McCarthy, Alex Marrow