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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 26 (setup 1, season 31)
Crystal Palace
v.
Arsenal
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
10
Overall form:
Home form:
Iker CASILLAS Fernández1Gianluigi BUFFON
Formation:
5-3-2
League position:
14
Overall form:
Home form:
Gaël CLICHY627JORDI ALBA Ramos
Mapou YANGA-MBIWA36José María GIMÉNEZ de Vargas
SERGI GÓMEZ Solá4Gerard PIQUÉ Bernabeu
Mattia DE SCIGLIO657Rick KARSDORP
Stefano STURARO66Sergio BUSQUETS Burgos
Corentin TOLISSO7Xabier Alonso Olano, XABI ALONSO
Andriy YARMOLENKO78Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez, ISCO
BERNARDO Mota Veiga de Carvalho e SILVA97Mesut ÖZIL
Juan Guillermo CUADRADO Bello10Edinson Roberto CAVANI Gómez
Timo WERNER6116ROBERTO FIRMINO Barbosa de Oliveira
Reuben HoltomManager
Jorge MERÉ Pérez12Aleksandar KOLAROV
Diego BENAGLIO13Kevin TRAPP
Marco BENASSI14Bart RAMSELAAR
Samuel Castillejo Azuaga, SAMU CASTILLEJO15Marcus COCO
Francisco Alcácer García, PACO ALCÁCER16DIEGO da Silva COSTA

Crystal Palace 0 Arsenal 0
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 41,391, Stadium: Selhurst Park, Referee: Mike PIKE 6½)
Scorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
7 Yanga-Mbiwa, 36 Bernardo Silva, 46 De SciglioBookings
2Corners2
18Fouls13
2Offsides3
6Shots on5
3Shots off6
9Total shots11
6Shots saved5
43%Possession57%
Man of the match: Iker CASILLAS Fernández
4The Crystal Palace 'keeper did well to hold onto a wicked strike from ÖZIL.
5An inswinging corner was touched into the arms of the 'keeper by YARMOLENKO.
7The ref books YANGA-MBIWA for dangerous play against JORDI ALBA.
13BERNARDO SILVA played the ball to TOLISSO who turned it wide.
19ROBERTO FIRMINO flicked a simple chance past the lefthand post.
20A corner fell to ROBERTO FIRMINO who fired the ball just beyond the far post.
25ISCO galloped through the Crystal Palace defence but shot straight at the 'keeper.
34A strike from CUADRADO held little difficulty for BUFFON.
36BERNARDO SILVA booked.
39JORDI ALBA scuffed an easy chance.
40The 'keeper was able to claw away a tame shot from ISCO.
42ROBERTO FIRMINO was put clear by PIQUÉ and he pulled away from CASILLAS but drilled his shot just beyond the far post.
43STURARO shot wide.
44The 'keeper dived to his right to block an accurate drive from Crystal Palace's CUADRADO.
45+3GIMÉNEZ beat two Crystal Palace players and fired a shot inches wide.
 
46DE SCIGLIO cautioned for a poor tackle on PIQUÉ.
49A clever cross from BUSQUETS, was placed goalbound by CAVANI only for the 'keeper to palm clear.
53CUADRADO's header was well saved by BUFFON.
57YANGA-MBIWA headed wide.
62CUADRADO's shot was well held by BUFFON.
65JORDI ALBA waltzed round YANGA-MBIWA and rattled a tame shot over.
74CUADRADO turned XABI ALONSO but shot the ball into the arms of BUFFON.
85A thirty yard drive from JORDI ALBA caused the Crystal Palace 'keeper no problem.