Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-2 Crystal Palace: result and report

Premier League · Wednesday 2 January 2019

Result

Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-2 Crystal Palace

Premier League · Wednesday 2 January 2019, 19:45 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-2 Crystal Palace: match report

Wolverhampton Wanderers were beaten by Crystal Palace 0-2 in the Premier League on Wednesday 2 January 2019. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Jordan Ayew opened the scoring in the 83rd minute. Wolverhampton Wanderers did not score. Crystal Palace scored through Jordan Ayew (83') and Luka Milivojevic (90+5', penalty).

Discipline: Wolverhampton Wanderers received 4 yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Wolverhampton Wanderers were 8th on 29 points from 20 and Crystal Palace 14th on 19 points from 20. Wolverhampton Wanderers went on to finish that season 7th with 57 points, and Crystal Palace 12th with 49.

Wolverhampton Wanderers lined up in a 3-4-3 and Crystal Palace in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Patrick van Aanholt of Crystal Palace (8.2), ahead of Jordan Ayew (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers win, 0 draws and 0 for Crystal Palace.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 23'Yellow card · Willy BolyWolverhampton Wanderers
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Romain SaïssWolverhampton Wanderers
  • 54'Yellow card · Ryan BennettWolverhampton Wanderers
  • 62'Yellow card · Luka MilivojevicCrystal Palace
  • 83'Goal · Jordan AyewCrystal Palace · 0-1
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Jonny CastroWolverhampton Wanderers
  • 90+5'Penalty goal · Luka MilivojevicCrystal Palace · 0-2

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, draws 0, Crystal Palace 0.

Team news

Wolverhampton Wanderers line-up (3-4-3)

Rui Patrício, Ryan Bennett, Willy Boly, Conor Coady, Matt Doherty, Jonny Otto, Romain Saïss, João Moutinho, Ivan Cavaleiro, Raúl Jiménez, Hélder Costa

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

Vicente Guaita, Patrick van Aanholt, James Tomkins, Mamadou Sakho, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Luka Milivojevic, Cheikhou Kouyaté, James McArthur, Andros Townsend, Wilfried Zaha, Jordan Ayew