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Commentary
PAVOLETTI fluffed an easy chance.
A shot from OKAKA seemed a certain goal but the Crystal Palace 'keeper managed to parry the ball away.
11¹A cross from MISSIROLI left ROSI in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
14¹ZAHA touched the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
17¹SANSONE made space on the right and pulled the ball to OKAKA who rasped the ball over.
18¹The 'keeper was able to block a tame shot from DEFOE.
23¹FRASER played the ball to ZAHA who headed it just beyond the far post.
28¹CORREA nodded the ball wide of the goal from the edge of the box.
35¹GOAL!! 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)
38¹DI GENNARO stroked a simple chance past the righthand post.
42¹A free-kick from MISSIROLI went just wide.
A accurate pass found DEFOE and his deadly shot flew narrowly wide.
10²PUNCHEON beat MISSIROLI and blasted the ball to ZAHA who pulled his shot wide.
14²ZAHA headed wide.
17²A good ball from ZAHA on the left bobbled toward DEFOE who sliced his shot inches wide.
18²GOAL!! A cross from the right was nodded down by KOMBAROV for MAGGIO to score. (2-0 Crystal Palace)
19²A good effort from SANSONE scraped the outside of the post.
25²DEFOE ran onto a wonderful ball from ZAHA but blasted his shot wide of the lefthand post.
36²The stunned HOWARD was all agog as a backpass from CORREA dropped just over.
43²ZAHA shot wide.

 
Spezia
 
League position: 14
Home league form: XWWW
Overall league form: XLXXWXWL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Alessandro IACOBUCCI1Tim HOWARD(c)
Aleandro ROSI2Christian MAGGIO
MÁRIO RUI Silva3Dmitri KOMBAROV
Simone MISSIROLI4Joaquín CORREA
Simone ROMAGNOLI5Mamadou SAKHO
Simone BENEDETTI6Martin KELLY
(c)Goran PANDEV7Ryan FRASER
Davide DI GENNARO8Wilfried ZAHA
(p)Leonardo PAVOLETTI9Jermain DEFOE(p)
(f)Stefano OKAKA10Jason PUNCHEON(f)
Nicola SANSONE11SANDRO RAMÍREZ Castillo
Manager
Raffaele SCHIAVI  12  Patrick VAN AANHOLT
Danilo RUSSO  13  Julian SPERONI
Mirco ANTENUCCI14Connor WICKHAM
Matteo DARMIAN  15  Jeffrey SCHLUPP
Nicola MADONNA  16  James McARTHUR
 
Crystal Palace
 
League position: 2
Away league form: XWWW
Overall league form: WXXWWWWW
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Spezia 0 Crystal Palace 2
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 10,180, Stadium: Alberto Picco, Referee: Claus Larsen 6)

 
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Defoe 35¹, Maggio 18²
SansoneóAntenucci 36²MaggioóWickham 32²
  
  
41
417
14
14
78
812
11
39%61%
Man of the match: Ryan Fraser