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Match report
Football Elite
Division 3: Round 40 (setup 4, season 9)
Spezia
v.
Crystal Palace
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
14
Overall form:
Home form:
Alessandro IACOBUCCI16Tim HOWARD
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
2
Overall form:
Home form:
Aleandro ROSI727Christian MAGGIO
MÁRIO RUI Silva Duarte3Dmitri KOMBAROV
Simone MISSIROLI4Carlos 'Joaquín' CORREA
Simone ROMAGNOLI57Mamadou SAKHO
Simone BENEDETTI66Martin KELLY
Goran PANDEV78Ryan FRASER
Davide DI GENNARO68Wilfried Armal ZAHA Dazet
Leonardo PAVOLETTI69Jermain DEFOE
Stefano OKAKA Chuka10Jason PUNCHEON
Nicola SANSONE7117SANDRO RAMÍREZ Castillo
Manager
Raffaele SCHIAVI12Patrick VAN AANHOLT
Danilo RUSSO13Julian SPERONI
Mirco ANTENUCCI6146Connor WICKHAM
Matteo DARMIAN15Jeffrey SCHLUPP
Nicola MADONNA16James McARTHUR

Spezia 0 Crystal Palace 2
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 10,180, Stadium: Alberto Picco, Referee: Claus Bo LARSEN 6)
Scorers36 Defoe, 64 Maggio
82 Sansone <=> AntenucciSubstitutions78 Maggio <=> Wickham
Sendings off
Bookings
4Corners1
4Fouls17
1Offsides4
1Shots on4
7Shots off8
8Total shots12
1Shots saved1
39%Possession61%
Man of the match: Ryan FRASER
3PAVOLETTI fluffed an easy chance.
7A shot from OKAKA seemed a certain goal but the Crystal Palace 'keeper managed to parry the ball away.
12A cross from MISSIROLI left ROSI in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
15ZAHA touched the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
18SANSONE made space on the right and pulled the ball to OKAKA who rasped the ball over.
19The 'keeper was able to block a tame shot from DEFOE.
24FRASER played the ball to ZAHA who headed it just beyond the far post.
29CORREA nodded the ball wide of the goal from the edge of the box.
36GOAL!! A hefty goal-kick from KELLY caught the Spezia defence square and DEFOE rushed through to sidestep the 'keeper and score. (1-0 Crystal Palace)
39DI GENNARO stroked a simple chance past the righthand post.
43A free-kick from MISSIROLI went just wide.
 
48A accurate pass found DEFOE and his deadly shot flew narrowly wide.
56PUNCHEON beat MISSIROLI and blasted the ball to ZAHA who pulled his shot wide.
60ZAHA headed wide.
63A good ball from ZAHA on the left bobbled toward DEFOE who sliced his shot inches wide.
64GOAL!! A cross from the right was nodded down by KOMBAROV for MAGGIO to score. (2-0 Crystal Palace)
65A good effort from SANSONE scraped the outside of the post.
71DEFOE ran onto a wonderful ball from ZAHA but blasted his shot wide of the lefthand post.
82The stunned Crystal Palace 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from CORREA dropped just over.
89ZAHA shot wide.