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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 5 (setup 4, season 28)
Crystal Palace
v.
Wrexham
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
1
Overall form:
Home form:
VICENTE GUAITA Panadero17Paul GALLACHER
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
5
Overall form:
Home form:
Martin KELLY2Alan MAYBURY
Jeffrey SCHLUPP73Andy ROBERTSON
Luka MILIVOJEVIC47Scott ARFIELD
Nicolás Andrés BURDISSO57Maynor Alexis FIGUEROA Róchez
Scott DANN6Neil TAYLOR
Oleksandr MELASCHENKO78Pedro LEÓN Sánchez Gil
Andros TOWNSEND78Jesse LINGARD
Christian BENTEKE9Odion Jude IGHALO
James McARTHUR106Stephen QUINN
Hugo RODALLEGA Martínez116Hal ROBSON-KANU
Manager
Jason PUNCHEON12Dean LEACOCK
Balázs MEGYERI13Graham STACK
Danny BATTH14Zavon HINES
Ruben LOFTUS-CHEEK15Mohamed SHAWKY
Bakary SAKO16

Crystal Palace 1 Wrexham 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 26,315, Stadium: Selhurst Park, Referee: RUI CARLOS Madureira 6½, TV: live)
41 TownsendScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
30 Kelly, 49 TownsendBookings
1Corners2
13Fouls4
1Offsides2
7Shots on2
14Shots off7
21Total shots9
5Shots saved2
51%Possession49%
Man of the match: Pedro LEÓN Sánchez Gil
4TOWNSEND hit a right foot shot just beyond the near post from just outside the area.
16A twenty yard drive from BENTEKE caused GALLACHER little difficulty.
19A poor strike from TOWNSEND rolled agonisingly wide.
20The stunned 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from TAYLOR dropped just wide.
21A cross from LEÓN left IGHALO in lots of space but he rushed his shot.
23A mix up in the Crystal Palace defence enabled IGHALO to hit the ball just beyond the far post.
25MILIVOJEVIC worked the ball to RODALLEGA, BENTEKE controlled his pass and booted the ball within easy reach of the 'keeper.
30A high challenge gets KELLY a yellow card.
31A corner bobbled toward MCARTHUR who forced the ball just beyond the far post.
33A penalty box scramble resulted in FIGUEROA driving the ball wide.
37SCHLUPP's header was well saved by the Wrexham 'keeper.
39The Wrexham 'keeper did well to hold onto an amazing shot from MCARTHUR.
41GOAL!! A patient Crystal Palace side were rewarded with a fierce strike from TOWNSEND. (1-0 Crystal Palace)
45+1A good effort from BENTEKE scraped the woodwork.
 
47MILIVOJEVIC beat LINGARD and fired the ball to BENTEKE who dragged his shot wide.
49RUI CARLOS yellow cards TOWNSEND for dangerous play against ARFIELD.
53LINGARD shot wide.
60MILIVOJEVIC brought the ball past QUINN and stroked a tame shot past the post.
71ROBSON-KANU kicked the ball wide of the goal from the edge of the box.
74A deadly effort from IGHALO was forced wide by the 'keeper.
80MILIVOJEVIC ran onto a delightful ball from TOWNSEND but pulled his shot wide of the lefthand post.
88A good ball from MCARTHUR on the left was collected by BENTEKE who mishit his shot over.