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Crystal Palace 0-3 Man United - April 27, 1998 / Premier League 1997/1998

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Premier League 1997/1998 - Round 36

Selhurst Park - London - England

April 27, 1998

26 180

0 - 3

Man United

Paul Scholes

21'

Nicky Butt

84'

Andy Cole

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5' - Goal Paul Scholes

21' - Goal Nicky Butt

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68' - Substitution Tomas Brolinis substituted by Jamie Fullarton68

75' - Substitution Michele Padovanois substituted by Bruce Dyer75

76' - Substitution Denis Irwinis substituted by Michael Clegg

84' - Goal Andy Cole

87' - Substitution Attilio Lombardois substituted by Hermann Hreidarsson87

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Crystal Palace

0 - 3

Man United

Crystal Palace Man United

Team line-ups

Crystal Palace

Miller

Kevin Miller

England

B.date15/03/1969

Age29 years

H1m86

positionGoalkeeper

Gordon

Dean Gordon

England

B.date10/02/1973

Age25 years

H1m83

positionLeft central defender

Ismaël

Valérien Ismaël

France

B.date28/09/1975

Age22 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

Edworthy

Marc Edworthy

England

B.date24/12/1972

Age25 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

Smith

Jamie Smith

England

B.date17/09/1974

Age23 years

positionRight full-back

Lombardo87

Attilio Lombardo

Italy

B.date06/01/1966

Age32 years

H1m75

positionRight Midfielder

Curcic

Sasa Curcic

Serbia

B.date14/02/1972

Age26 years

H1m78

positionOffensive Midfielder

Brolin68

Tomas Brolin

Sweden

B.date29/11/1969

Age28 years

H1m76

positionRight Winger

Padovano75

Michele Padovano

Italy

B.date28/08/1966

Age31 years

H1m76

positionStriker

Bent

Marcus Bent

England

B.date19/05/1978

Age19 years

H1m88

positionStriker

Shipperley

Neil Shipperley

England

B.date30/10/1974

Age23 years

H1m78

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Kevin Miller		29	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Dean Gordon		25	123	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Valérien Ismaël		22	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Marc Edworthy		25	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jamie Smith		23	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Attilio Lombardo	87	32	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Sasa Curcic		26	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Tomas Brolin	68	28	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Michele Padovano	75	31	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Marcus Bent		19	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Neil Shipperley		23	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Man United

Schmeichel

Peter Schmeichel

Denmark

B.date18/11/1963

Age34 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

Pallister

Gary Pallister

England

B.date30/06/1965

Age32 years

H1m93

positionCentral defender

May

David May

England

B.date24/06/1970

Age27 years

H1m83

positionRight central defender

Irwin76

Denis Irwin

Republic of Ireland

B.date31/10/1965

Age32 years

H1m73

positionLeft full-back

Neville

Phil Neville

England

B.date21/01/1977

Age21 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

Giggs

Ryan Giggs

Wales

B.date29/11/1973

Age24 years

H1m80

positionLeft central midfielder

Butt21

Nicky Butt

England

B.date21/01/1975

Age23 years

H1m78

positionMidfield

Beckham

David Beckham

England

B.date02/05/1975

Age22 years

H1m82

positionRight Midfielder

Scholes5

Paul Scholes

England

B.date16/11/1974

Age23 years

H1m71

positionCentre Midfield

Sheringham

Teddy Sheringham

England

B.date02/04/1966

Age32 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Cole84

Andy Cole

England

B.date15/10/1971

Age26 years

H1m80

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Peter Schmeichel		34	342	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Pallister		32	436	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David May		27	94	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Denis Irwin	76	32	385	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Phil Neville		21	102	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ryan Giggs		24	313	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Nicky Butt	21	23	155	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	David Beckham		22	149	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Paul Scholes	5	23	130	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Teddy Sheringham		32	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Andy Cole	84	26	132	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

207

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Hermann Hreidarsson	87	23	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jamie Fullarton	68	23	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Bruce Dyer	75	23	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Michael Clegg	76	20	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Marcus Bent

Matt Jansen

OUT

Attilio Lombardo

Simon Rodger

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Paul Scholes

Gary Neville

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Attilio Lombardo

Success rate in this team:

29 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

29 %

Lombardo vs Man United

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 27, 1998

Lombardo vs Ferguson

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 27, 1998

Manager

Age

Match num

Sir Alex Ferguson

622

Success rate in this team:

54 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

54 %

Ferguson vs Crystal Palace

11 victories

4 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on April 27, 1998

Ferguson vs Lombardo

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on April 27, 1998

Referee

Peter Jones

1 victory	1 draw	2 losses	Crystal Palace4 matches	General total	Man United21 matches	12 victories	4 draws	5 losses
0 victory	1 draw	1 loss	Crystal Palace2 matches	Season total	Man United3 matches	2 victories	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on April 27, 1998					Latest figure on January 02, 2002

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Key figures

Crystal Palace keeps its 16 matches with at least one goal conceded in Premier League running (since 26/12/1997). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 31/01/1981-26/08/1989 time period (18 matches).

It's the first time Paul Scholes scores 1 goal vs in his professional career

No manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Sir Alex Ferguson has done less than 0.91 goals conceded per game .

Read the next 15 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LCrystal Palace 0-3 Wimbledon FC09/02/1998

LCrystal Palace 1-2 Arsenal25/02/1998

LCrystal Palace 0-3 Coventry28/02/1998

LCrystal Palace 1-3 Tottenham28/03/1998

LCrystal Palace 0-3 Leicester11/04/1998

VCrystal Palace 3-1 Derby County18/04/1998

Overall

LAston Villa 3-1 Crystal Palace14/03/1998

VNewcastle United 1-2 Crystal Palace18/03/1998

LCrystal Palace 1-3 Tottenham28/03/1998

LCrystal Palace 0-3 Leicester11/04/1998

LLiverpool 2-1 Crystal Palace13/04/1998

VCrystal Palace 3-1 Derby County18/04/1998

Current form

Away

LBarnsley 3-2 Manchester United25/02/1998

VChelsea 0-1 Manchester United28/02/1998

DMonaco 0-0 Manchester United04/03/1998

LSheffield Wednesday 2-0 Manchester United07/03/1998

DWest Ham 1-1 Manchester United11/03/1998

VBlackburn 1-3 Manchester United06/04/1998

Overall

LManchester United 0-1 Arsenal14/03/1998

DManchester United 1-1 Monaco18/03/1998

VManchester United 2-0 Wimbledon FC28/03/1998

VBlackburn 1-3 Manchester United06/04/1998

DManchester United 1-1 Liverpool10/04/1998

DManchester United 1-1 Newcastle United18/04/1998

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	1
Drawless streak	10	10
Scoring streak	1	2
Conceding streak	7	10

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Drawing streak	0	2
Unbeaten streak	2	5
Winless streak	0	2
Drawless streak	1	0
Scoring streak	2	5
Conceding streak	3	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

34	Number of games (Competition total)	35
16	Number of games (Home / Away)	17
7	Victories (Competition total)	20
1	Victories (Home / Away)	8
8	Draws (Competition total)	8
4	Draws (Home / Away)	4
19	Losses (Competition total)	7
11	Losses (Home / Away)	5

Goals

31	Goals scored (Competition total)	65
11	Goals scored (Home / Away)	26
60	Goals conceded (Competition total)	26
33	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	17
0.91	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.86
0.69	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.53
1.76	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.74
2.06	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1

Betting aid

19	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	12
11	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	6
5	Clean sheets (Competition total)	17
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	7
13	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	7
8	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	5
18	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	13
8	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	7
0-3 (5 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	2-0 (3 times)

Bookings

62	Yellow cards (Competition total)	58
26	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	33
2	Red cards (Competition total)	2
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Neil Shipperley	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	14 goals	Andy Cole
Neil Shipperley	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	6 goals	David Beckham
Bruce Dyer	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Denis Irwin
Bruce Dyer	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Marcus Bent	2 goals during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 3 matches	David Beckham

Historical head to head

Home

15 matches

4 v

4 d

7 l

23 gf

25 ga

Away

18 matches

2 v

2 d

14 l

10 gf

35 ga

Neutral ground

4 matches

0 v

2 d

2 l

5 gf

8 ga

Total

37 matches

6 v

8 d

23 l

38 gf

68 ga

Historical head to head

Home

18 matches

14 v

2 d

2 l

35 gf

10 ga

Away

15 matches

7 v

4 d

4 l

25 gf

23 ga

Neutral ground

4 matches

2 v

2 d

0 l

8 gf

5 ga

Total

37 matches

23 v

8 d

6 l

68 gf

38 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	December 16, 1972
Home	5 - 0	December 16, 1972

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	March 25, 1972
Away	2 - 0	April 21, 1993

Latest head to head

October 04, 1997 - Premier League 1997/1998

Man United

2 - 0

Crystal Palace logo Crystal Palace

April 12, 1995 - FA Cup 1994/1995

Crystal Palace

0 - 2

Man United

April 09, 1995 - FA Cup 1994/1995

Man United

2 - 2

Crystal Palace logo Crystal Palace

January 25, 1995 - Premier League 1994/1995

Crystal Palace

1 - 1

Man United

November 19, 1994 - Premier League 1994/1995

Man United

3 - 0

Crystal Palace logo Crystal Palace

Best historical scorers against Man United

Ian Wright	4 goals	1989 - 1991
Gerald Queen	2 goals	1969 - 1971
Mel Blyth	2 goals	1969 - 1971
John Salako	2 goals	1991 - 1991
Mark Bright	2 goals	1989 - 1989
Paddy Mulligan	2 goals	1972 - 1972

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/08/1969. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Crystal Palace

Mark Hughes	6 goals	1990 - 1993
Denis Law	6 goals	1971 - 1972
Brian Kidd	5 goals	1970 - 1973
Brian McClair	3 goals	1987 - 1991
Bobby Charlton	3 goals	1969 - 1972
Andrey Kanchelskis	2 goals	1991 - 1994

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/08/1969. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Man United

Nigel Martyn	12 matches	1989 - 1995
John Salako	9 matches	1990 - 1995
Mark Bright	9 matches	1989 - 1992
Andy Thorn	9 matches	1989 - 1993
Geoffrey Thomas	9 matches	1989 - 1992
Richard Shaw	9 matches	1990 - 1995

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/08/1969. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Crystal Palace

Gary Pallister	14 matches	1989 - 1997
Brian McClair	14 matches	1987 - 1995
Paul Ince	12 matches	1989 - 1995
Mark Hughes	12 matches	1985 - 1995
Denis Irwin	11 matches	1990 - 1997
Bryan Robson	10 matches	1985 - 1993