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7¹ NEILL blasted a deadly shot over from twenty-five yards out. 15¹ GOAL!! The Norwich City 'keeper got into difficulty with a backpass from CURETON and KOLKKA was able to poke the ball home. (1-0 Crystal Palace) 17¹ CAVE-BROWN booked for a bad challenge. 19¹ GOAL!! A beautiful outswinging corner was headed in at the far post by DOSSENA. (1-1) 20¹ A tame strike from BÄRKROTH bounced agonisingly wide. 23¹ BERNARDELLO was put clear by SANTON and he nutmegged McNEIL but thrust his shot wide. 43¹ An outswinging corner was turned into the arms of McNEIL by KOLKKA. 43¹ MULLINS chipped the ball to NEILL who nodded it over the bar. 45¹ GOAL!! A free-kick was punched clear by the Norwich City 'keeper, SANTON was first to the loose ball and played the ball to SIMUNIC to tuck in. (2-1 Crystal Palace) 4² A penalty box meleé resulted in SIMUNIC knocking a low shot over. 6² GOAL!! A neat one-two left MULLINS clear and he made no mistake by cleverly floating the ball past the oncoming Crystal Palace 'keeper. (2-2) 14² A mix up in the Norwich City defence enabled SIMUNIC to thump an effort over. 15² CURETON shot wide. 19² GOAL!! A patient Norwich City side were rewarded with an accurate strike from MULLINS. (3-2 Norwich City) 22² BERNARDELLO made space on the right and dragged the ball to KOLKKA who touched the ball over. 23² A free-kick from MULLINS flew inches wide. 26² GOAL!! A long ball from TURNER down the middle bobbled toward the lurking MULLINS who drilled a left foot shot into the roof of the net. (4-2 Norwich City) 28² A cynical foul gets TURNER a yellow card. 29² BERNARDELLO worked the ball to FORMICA, KOLKKA gathered his pass and nodded the ball within easy reach of McNEIL. 30² The 'keeper managed to palm clear a wicked shot. 31² The referee books MULLINS. 37² GOAL!! SMART tried to play the ball out of the Norwich City penalty area but was tackled by HANSSON who forced the ball to KOLKKA for an easy tap in. (4-3 Norwich City)

Norwich City   League position: 22 Home league form: LLLX Overall league form: LLLLLLLX Formation: 4-4-2

Line-ups Andrew McNEIL 6  1 6½ Giedrius ARLAUSKIS Jamie CURETON 6  2 8  Davide SANTON Andrea DOSSENA 8  3 7½ Josip SIMUNIC (c)Rossi JARVIS 7  4 7½ Renato CIVELLI Ben TURNER 6½ 5 7  Piotr POLCZAK Bally SMART 6  6 7  Petter HANSSON(c) Lucas NEILL 5½ 7 8½ Joonas KOLKKA(f) Darel RUSSELL 6½ 8 7½ Hernán BERNARDELLO (p)Andrew CAVE-BROWN 5½ 9 7  Niklas BÄRKROTH (f)Kris RENTON 5½ 10 8  Vedad IBISEVIC(p) Hayden MULLINS 7  11 7  Mauro FORMICA Chris Goddard Manager Ian HISLAM Juan VELASCO    12    Sami HYYPIÄ Jonny EVANS    13    Miralem PJANIC RUI Pedro PATRÍCIO    14    GÖKHAN Inler KEIRRISON de Souza    15    Marko MARIN Kevin NOLAN    16    Salomon KALOU

Crystal Palace   League position: 4 Away league form: XXOW Overall league form: WXXXWOWW Formation: 4-4-2

Statistics

Norwich City 4 Crystal Palace 3 (Half-time: 1-2, Attendance: 26,002, Stadium: Carrow Road, Referee: Paul Taylor 7½) Dossena 19¹, Mullins 6², Mullins 19², Mullins 26² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Kolkka 15¹, Simunic 45¹, Kolkka 37²         Cave-Brown 17¹, Turner 28², Mullins 31²   2 3 13 5 3 12 4 7 9 10 13 17 0 4 39% 61% ¶ Man of the match: Joonas Kolkka ¶