Southampton 3-1 Crystal Palace: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 15 May 2016
Result
Southampton 3-1 Crystal Palace
Premier League · Sunday 15 May 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Southampton 3-1 Crystal Palace: match report
Southampton defeated Crystal Palace 3-1 in the Premier League on Sunday 15 May 2016. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Sadio Mané opened the scoring in the 43rd minute. Southampton's goals came from Sadio Mané (43'), Graziano Pellè (61'), Ryan Bertrand (75', penalty) and Steven Davis (87'). Crystal Palace scored through J. Puncheon (64').
Discipline: Southampton received 2 yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Southampton were 7th on 60 points from 37 and Crystal Palace 13th on 42 points from 37. Southampton went on to finish that season 7th with 63 points, and Crystal Palace 15th with 42.
Southampton lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Crystal Palace in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Sadio Mané of Southampton (8.3), ahead of Steven Davis (8.2).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Southampton wins, 2 draws and 1 for Crystal Palace.
Key events
- 43'Goal · Sadio Mané
- 54'Yellow card · Joel Ward
- 59'Yellow card · James McArthur
- 61'Goal · Graziano Pellè
- 64'Goal · J. Puncheon
- 72'Yellow card · Graziano Pellè
- 72'Yellow card · Graziano Pellè
- 75'Penalty goal · Ryan Bertrand
- 87'Goal · Steven Davis
Head-to-head
Team news
Southampton line-up (4-2-3-1)
Fraser Forster, Cuco Martina, José Fonte, Virgil van Dijk, Ryan Bertrand, Oriol Romeu, Victor Wanyama, Sadio Mané, Steven Davis, Dusan Tadic, Shane Long
Crystal Palace line-up (4-4-2)
Julián Speroni, Joel Ward, Adrian Mariappa, Damien Delaney, Pape Souaré, Jason Puncheon, James McArthur, Mile Jedinak, Jordon Mutch, Dwight Gayle, Emmanuel Adebayor