Southampton 1-2 Crystal Palace: result and report

Premier League · Tuesday 2 January 2018

Result

Southampton 1-2 Crystal Palace

Premier League · Tuesday 2 January 2018, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Southampton 1-2 Crystal Palace: match report

Southampton lost to Crystal Palace 1-2 in the Premier League on Tuesday 2 January 2018. The half-time score was 1-0.

Ingo Goetze opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Southampton's goal came from Ingo Goetze (17'). Crystal Palace scored through James McArthur (69') and Luka Milivojevic (80').

Discipline: Southampton received no yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Southampton were 15th on 20 points from 21 and Crystal Palace 17th on 19 points from 21. Southampton went on to finish that season 17th with 36 points, and Crystal Palace 11th with 44.

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 James McArthur of Crystal Palace (7.8), ahead of Oriol Romeu (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 7 Southampton wins, 1 draw and 2 for Crystal Palace.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Goal · Ingo GoetzeSouthampton · 1-0
  • 57'Yellow card · Timothy Fosu-MensahCrystal Palace
  • 69'Goal · James McArthurCrystal Palace · 1-1
  • 80'Goal · Luka MilivojevicCrystal Palace · 1-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Southampton 7, draws 1, Crystal Palace 2.

Team news

Southampton line-up (4-2-3-1)

Alex Simon McCarthy, Jérémy Pied, Jack Stephens, Maya Yoshida, Ryan Bertrand, Oriol Romeu, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, James Ward-Prowse, Dusan Tadic, Sofiane Boufal, Shane Long

Crystal Palace line-up (4-2-3-1)

Wayne Hennessey, Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Martin Kelly, James Tomkins, Jeffrey Schlupp, James McArthur, Luka Milivojevic, Andros Townsend, Yohan Cabaye, Wilfried Zaha, Christian Benteke