Season 2026-27

Crystal Palace vs Manchester Utd

Premier League · Round 29 · Mon 5 Mar 2018, 20:00

Crystal Palace
23 Full time
Manchester Utd

Manchester Utd won 3–2 away at Crystal Palace on 5 March 2018 (Premier League 2017-2018, Round 29). Goals – Crystal Palace: Andros Townsend 11', Patrick van Aanholt 48'; Manchester Utd: Chris Smalling 55', Romelu Lukaku 76', Nemanja Matic 90+1'. In 28 Premier League meetings since 2000-01, Crystal Palace have won 6, Manchester Utd 16 and 6 matches have been drawn.

Summary

Key events

  1. 11' Andros Townsend Crystal Palace · assist Christian Benteke 1–0
  2. Half time · 1–0
  3. 48' Patrick van Aanholt Crystal Palace · assist Jeffrey Schlupp 2–0
  4. 55' Chris Smalling Manchester Utd · assist Antonio Valencia 2–1
  5. 76' Romelu Lukaku Manchester Utd 2–2
  6. 90+1' Nemanja Matic Manchester Utd 2–3
  7. Full time · 2–3

Lineups

Crystal Palace

  1. 13 Wayne Hennessey
  2. 29 Aaron Wan-Bissaka
  3. 34 Martin Kelly
  4. 5 James Tomkins
  5. 3 Patrick van Aanholt
  6. 10 Andros Townsend
  7. 18 James McArthur
  8. 4 Luka Milivojevic (c)
  9. 15 Jeffrey Schlupp
  10. 17 Christian Benteke
  11. 9 Alexander Sorloth

Substitutes used

Unused

Diego Cavalieri, Damien Delaney, Chung-Yong Lee, Pape Souare, Jaroslaw Jach, Erdal Rakip

Manchester Utd

  1. 1 David de Gea
  2. 25 Antonio Valencia (c)
  3. 12 Chris Smalling
  4. 2 Victor Lindelof
  5. 18 Ashley Young
  6. 39 Scott McTominay
  7. 31 Nemanja Matic
  8. 6 Paul Pogba
  9. 14 Jesse Lingard
  10. 9 Romelu Lukaku
  11. 7 Alexis Sanchez

Substitutes used

Unused

Eric Bailly, Michael Carrick, Matteo Darmian, Joel Pereira

Head-to-head & form

Head-to-head since 2000-01

Full head-to-head
6Crystal Palace wins6Draws16Manchester Utd wins

28 meetings · goals Crystal Palace 24–40 Manchester Utd

Previous meetings

30 Sep 2017 Manchester Utd4–0FT · 15:00Crystal Palace
21 May 2017 Manchester Utd2–0FT · 15:00Crystal Palace
14 Dec 2016 Crystal Palace1–2FT · 20:00Manchester Utd
20 Apr 2016 Manchester Utd2–0FT · 20:00Crystal Palace
31 Oct 2015 Crystal Palace0–0FT · 15:00Manchester Utd

Form before the match

Last five Premier League matches, oldest to newest.

Final table 2017-2018

Full table
# Team P W D L GD Pts
2 Manchester Utd 38 25 6 7 +40 81
11 Crystal Palace 38 11 11 16 −10 44

Top scorers 2017-2018

All scorers

Crystal Palace

  1. Luka Milivojevic 10
  2. Wilfried Zaha 9
  3. Patrick van Aanholt 5

Manchester Utd

  1. Romelu Lukaku 16
  2. Anthony Martial 9
  3. Alexis Sanchez 9