Southampton 3-1 Crystal Palace: result and report
Premier League · Wednesday 5 April 2017
Result
Southampton 3-1 Crystal Palace
Premier League · Wednesday 5 April 2017, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-1
Southampton 3-1 Crystal Palace: match report
Southampton beat Crystal Palace 3-1 in the Premier League on Wednesday 5 April 2017. The half-time score was 1-1.
Christian Benteke opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Southampton's goals came from Nathan Redmond (45'), Maya Yoshida (83') and James Ward-Prowse (85'). Crystal Palace scored through Christian Benteke (31').
Discipline: Southampton received 2 yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Southampton were 13th on 34 points from 28 and Crystal Palace 16th on 31 points from 29. Southampton went on to finish that season 8th with 46 points, and Crystal Palace 14th with 41.
Southampton lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Crystal Palace in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Nathan Redmond of Southampton (8.3), ahead of Maya Yoshida (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Southampton wins, 2 draws and 2 for Crystal Palace.
Key events
- 31'Goal · Christian Benteke
- 45'Goal · Nathan Redmond
- 71'Yellow card · Oriol Romeu
- 79'Yellow card · Cédric Soares
- 83'Goal · Maya Yoshida
- 85'Goal · James Ward-Prowse
- 88'Yellow card · Christian Benteke
Head-to-head
Team news
Southampton line-up (4-2-3-1)
Fraser Forster, Cédric Soares, Jack Stephens, Maya Yoshida, Sam McQueen, Steven Davis, Oriol Romeu, James Ward-Prowse, Dusan Tadic, Nathan Redmond, Shane Long
Crystal Palace line-up (4-2-3-1)
Wayne Hennessey, Joel Ward, Martin Kelly, Mamadou Sakho, Jeffrey Schlupp, Yohan Cabaye, Luka Milivojevic, Andros Townsend, Jason Puncheon, Wilfried Zaha, Christian Benteke