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2¹ GOAL!! SCHUURS tried to play the ball out of the Walsall penalty area but was tackled by TONALI who nodded the ball to RAFAEL LEÃO for a simple goal. (1-0 Crystal Palace) 7¹ BRAHIM beat SMALLING and hit the ball to DANI OLMO who toe-poked his shot wide. 10¹ PASVEER was able to claw away a weak shot from VLAHOVIC. 14¹ RAFAEL LEÃO booked for a high tackle. 21¹ CRISTANTE headed over. 31¹ CASEMIRO nutmegged KIM but shot the ball into the arms of the Crystal Palace 'keeper. 32¹ VICARIO dived to his left to save a lovely shot from Walsall's CRISTANTE. 33¹ GOAL!! A patient Crystal Palace side were rewarded with a fierce shot from VLAHOVIC. (2-0 Crystal Palace) 39¹ A drive from VLAHOVIC seemed a certain goal but PASVEER managed to force the ball clear. 43¹ GOAL!! A great bit of skill enabled RAFAEL LEÃO to dribble through the Walsall defence and score. (3-0 Crystal Palace) 4² BRAHIM made space on the right and dragged the ball to RAFAEL LEÃO who rasped the ball wide. 6² GOAL!! A beautiful inswinging corner was headed in at the near post by PAULINHO. (3-1 Crystal Palace) 11² A header by VLAHOVIC at the far post was easily collected by the 'keeper. 13² SARABIA ran onto a wonderful ball from CASEMIRO but fired his effort wide. 13² PAULINHO brought the ball round DANILO and rattled a weak shot wide. 15² A fine ball from PAULINHO on the right bobbled toward SARABIA who sliced his effort inches wide. 17² A strike from RAFAEL LEÃO held no problem for the Walsall 'keeper. 19² GOAL!! A deep cross from TOMIYASU on the right was headed home by SARABIA at the near post. (3-2 Crystal Palace) 23² A bad tackle on RAFAEL LEÃO by HOFMANN results in a booking. 25² CRISTANTE was put clear by SCHUURS and he stepped inside the 'keeper but drilled his shot just beyond the near post. 31² DANI OLMO whacked a left foot shot wide from just outside the area. 41² A cross from TONALI left BRAHIM in plenty of space but he scuffed his shot.

Crystal Palace   League position: 8 Home league form: XOXL Overall league form: WXWOWXLW Formation: 3-5-2

Line-ups Guglielmo VICARIO 6½ 1 5½ Remko PASVEER Nico SCHLOTTERBECK 7  2 7  Takehiro TOMIYASU DANILO Luiz 8½ 3 7  Chris SMALLING (c)KIM Min-jae 7½ 4 7  Carlos CASEMIRO Sandro TONALI 6½ 5 7  Francesco ACERBI(c) Dejan KULUSEVSKI 7  6 6  Perr SCHUURS BRAHIM Abdelkader 6½ 7 6½ Jonas HOFMANN Aurélien TCHOUAMÉNI 6½ 8 7  Pablo SARABIA DANI OLMO 7½ 9 6½ PAULINHO(p) (p)Dusan VLAHOVIC 7  10 6  Bryan CRISTANTE(f) (f)RAFAEL Alexandre LEÃO 7  11 6½ Alassane PLÉA Sam Ashby Manager LUCAS Lopes BERALDO    12    Emil FORSBERG Takefusa KUBO    13    RAFINHA NICO    14    Loubadhe SYLLA Henrikh MKHITARYAN    15    Jack CLARKE Artem DOVBYK    16    GIOVANI Henrique

Walsall   League position: 19 Away league form: LXLW Overall league form: XLXLXLLW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Crystal Palace 3 Walsall 2 (Half-time: 3-0, Attendance: 24,877, Stadium: Selhurst Park, Referee: Mike Pike 8) Rafael Leão 2¹, Vlahovic 33¹, Rafael Leão 43¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Paulinho 6², Sarabia 19²         Rafael Leão 14¹ Hofmann 23² 5 2 10 3 3 0 9 5 7 7 16 12 4 3 54% 46% ¶ Man of the match: Danilo Luiz ¶