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Crystal Palace 1-3 Crewe Alexandra - December 09, 2003 / First Division 2003/2004

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First Division 2003/2004 - Round 19

Selhurst Park - London - England

December 09, 2003

12 259

Crystal Palace

1 - 3

Crewe Alexandra

Danny Butterfield

78'

Dean Ashton

16'

Luke Varney

86'

Dean Ashton

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8' - Goal Dean Ashton

16' - Goal Luke Varney

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72' - Substitution Curtis Flemingis substituted by Tommy Black72

78' - Goal Danny Butterfield78

79' - Substitution Luke Varneyis substituted by Allan Smart

82' - Substitution Chris McCreadyis substituted by Adie Moses

86' - Goal Dean Ashton

88' - Substitution Dean Ashtonis substituted by Michael Higdon

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Crystal Palace

1 - 3

Crewe Alexandra

Crystal Palace Crewe Alexandra

Team line-ups

Crystal Palace

Myhre

Thomas Myhre

Norway

B.date16/10/1973

Age30 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Edwards

Rob Edwards

Wales

B.date25/12/1982

Age20 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

Symons

Kit Symons

Wales

B.date08/03/1971

Age32 years

H1m85

positionDefender

Fleming72

Curtis Fleming

Republic of Ireland

B.date08/10/1968

Age35 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

Borrowdale

Gary Borrowdale

England

B.date16/07/1985

Age18 years

H1m83

positionLeft full-back

Butterfield78

Danny Butterfield

England

B.date21/11/1979

Age24 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Derry

Shaun Derry

England

B.date06/12/1977

Age26 years

H1m78

positionDefensive Midfielder

Riihilahti

Aki Riihilahti

Finland

B.date09/09/1976

Age27 years

H1m85

positionDefensive Midfielder

Routledge

Wayne Routledge

England

B.date07/01/1985

Age18 years

H1m70

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Freedman

Dougie Freedman

Scotland

B.date25/05/1974

Age29 years

H1m75

positionStriker

Shipperley

Neil Shipperley

England

B.date30/10/1974

Age29 years

H1m78

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Thomas Myhre		30	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Rob Edwards		20	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kit Symons		32	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Curtis Fleming	72	35	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gary Borrowdale		18	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Danny Butterfield	78	24	80	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Shaun Derry		26	69	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Aki Riihilahti		27	96	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Wayne Routledge		18	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dougie Freedman		29	118	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Neil Shipperley		29	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Crewe Alexandra

Ince

Clayton Ince

Trinidad and Tobago

B.date12/07/1972

Age31 years

H1m94

positionGoalkeeper

McCready82

Chris McCready

England

B.date05/09/1981

Age22 years

H1m85

positionVersatile Defender

Foster

Stephen Foster

England

B.date18/09/1980

Age23 years

H1m82

positionCentral defender

Wright

David Wright

England

B.date01/05/1980

Age23 years

H1m80

positionVersatile Defender

Tonkin

Anthony Tonkin

England

B.date17/01/1980

Age23 years

H1m81

positionLeft full-back

Billy Jones

England

B.date24/03/1987

Age16 years

H1m81

positionRight full-back

Steve Jones

Northern Ireland

B.date25/10/1976

Age27 years

H1m78

positionVersatile Midfielder

Cochrane

Justin Cochrane

Antigua and Barbuda

B.date26/01/1982

Age21 years

H1m81

positionCentre Midfield

Lunt

Kenny Lunt

England

B.date20/11/1979

Age24 years

H1m80

positionPlaymaker

Ashton86888

Dean Ashton

England

B.date24/11/1983

Age20 years

H1m85

positionStriker

Varney1679

Luke Varney

England

B.date28/09/1982

Age21 years

H1m80

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Clayton Ince		31	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Chris McCready	82	22	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Stephen Foster		23	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David Wright		23	81	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Anthony Tonkin		23	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Billy Jones		16	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steve Jones		27	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Justin Cochrane		21	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kenny Lunt		24	100	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Dean Ashton	86888	20	62	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Luke Varney	1679	21	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

22.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Tommy Black	72	24	98	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Adie Moses	82	28	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Allan Smart	79	29	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Michael Higdon	88	20	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Wayne Routledge

Michael Hughes

OUT

Curtis Fleming

Tony Popovic

OUT

Dougie Freedman

Tommy Black

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Luke Varney

Ben Rix

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Kit Symons

Success rate in this team:

14 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

14 %

Symons vs Crewe Alexandra

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 09, 2003

Symons vs Gradi

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on December 09, 2003

Manager

Age

Match num

Dario Gradi

664

Success rate in this team:

39 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Gradi vs Crystal Palace

2 victories

4 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on December 09, 2003

Gradi vs Symons

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on December 09, 2003

Referee

Philip Joslin

4 victories	2 draws	1 loss	Crystal Palace7 matches	General total	Crewe Alexandra6 matches	2 victories	2 draws	2 losses
0 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Crystal Palace1 match	Season total	Crewe Alexandra1 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on March 08, 2008					Latest figure on March 15, 2008

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Key figures

It's the first time in his career that Luke Varney scores at least 1 goals during the same game in Championship

It's the first time Danny Butterfield scores 1 goal vs Crewe Alexandra in his professional career with Crystal Palace

Crewe Alexandra keeps its 4 matches with only one goal conceded at most running (since 22/11/2003).

Read the next 13 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VCrystal Palace 2-1 Cardiff City04/10/2003

DCrystal Palace 1-1 Derby County14/10/2003

DCrystal Palace 1-1 Rotherham United18/10/2003

LCrystal Palace 3-4 Ipswich Town21/10/2003

DCrystal Palace 1-1 Preston North End08/11/2003

DCrystal Palace 1-1 Coventry29/11/2003

Overall

DCrystal Palace 1-1 Preston North End08/11/2003

DWalsall 0-0 Crystal Palace22/11/2003

VStoke City 0-1 Crystal Palace25/11/2003

DCrystal Palace 1-1 Coventry29/11/2003

LAston Villa 3-0 Crystal Palace03/12/2003

LPreston North End 4-1 Crystal Palace06/12/2003

Current form

Away

LCardiff City 3-0 Crewe Alexandra27/09/2003

LCoventry 2-0 Crewe Alexandra01/10/2003

DStoke City 1-1 Crewe Alexandra25/10/2003

LSheffield United 2-0 Crewe Alexandra04/11/2003

LGillingham 2-0 Crewe Alexandra08/11/2003

LNorwich City 1-0 Crewe Alexandra29/11/2003

Overall

VCrewe Alexandra 1-0 Reading01/11/2003

LSheffield United 2-0 Crewe Alexandra04/11/2003

LGillingham 2-0 Crewe Alexandra08/11/2003

VCrewe Alexandra 3-0 Sunderland22/11/2003

LNorwich City 1-0 Crewe Alexandra29/11/2003

DCrewe Alexandra 1-1 Gillingham06/12/2003

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	2	0
Loosing streak	0	2
Unbeaten streak	2	0
Winless streak	5	3
Drawless streak	0	2
Scoring streak	8	1
Conceding streak	10	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	0	1
Loosing streak	3	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	7	2
Drawless streak	3	0
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	3	0
Conceding streak	7	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

21	Number of games (Competition total)	21
10	Number of games (Home / Away)	10
5	Victories (Competition total)	8
2	Victories (Home / Away)	1
7	Draws (Competition total)	4
5	Draws (Home / Away)	2
9	Losses (Competition total)	9
3	Losses (Home / Away)	7

Goals

24	Goals scored (Competition total)	22
13	Goals scored (Home / Away)	5
35	Goals conceded (Competition total)	25
14	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	16
1.14	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.05
1.3	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.5
1.67	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.19
1.4	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.6

Betting aid

11	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	8
4	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	2
3	Clean sheets (Competition total)	6
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	1
5	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	8
1	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	6
14	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	7
8	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	3
1-1 (4 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-2 (3 times)

Bookings

44	Yellow cards (Competition total)	13
18	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	11
6	Red cards (Competition total)	1
2	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Dougie Freedman	8 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	8 goals	Steve Jones
Andy Johnson	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Dean Ashton
Dougie Freedman	3 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Dean Ashton
Andy Johnson	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Dean Ashton
Shaun Derry	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	6 goals during the last 10 matches	Steve Jones

Historical head to head

Home

4 matches

2 v

2 d

0 l

7 gf

3 ga

Away

4 matches

1 v

2 d

1 l

2 gf

3 ga

Total

8 matches

3 v

4 d

1 l

9 gf

6 ga

Historical head to head

Home

4 matches

1 v

2 d

1 l

3 gf

2 ga

Away

4 matches

0 v

2 d

2 l

3 gf

7 ga

Total

8 matches

1 v

4 d

3 l

6 gf

9 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 1	November 17, 2001
Home	4 - 1	November 17, 2001

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 0	December 04, 1999
Away	No success yet

Latest head to head

April 07, 2002 - First Division 2001/2002

Crewe Alexandra

0 - 0

Crystal Palace logo Crystal Palace

November 17, 2001 - First Division 2001/2002

Crystal Palace

4 - 1

Crewe Alexandra logo Crewe Alexandra

March 31, 2001 - First Division 2000/2001

Crystal Palace

1 - 0

Crewe Alexandra logo Crewe Alexandra

December 16, 2000 - First Division 2000/2001

Crewe Alexandra

1 - 1

Crystal Palace logo Crystal Palace

December 04, 1999 - First Division 1999/2000

Crewe Alexandra

2 - 0

Crystal Palace logo Crystal Palace

Best historical scorers against Crewe Alexandra

Dougie Freedman	1 goal	2001 - 2001
Jovan Kirovski	1 goal	2001 - 2001
Clinton Morrison	1 goal	2001 - 2001

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/02/1999. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Crystal Palace

	Dean Ashton	1 goal	2001 - 2001
	Dave Walton	1 goal	1999 - 1999

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/02/1999. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Crewe Alexandra

Simon Rodger	2 matches	2001 - 2002
Clinton Morrison	2 matches	2001 - 2002
Aleksandrs Kolinko	2 matches	2001 - 2002
Steven Thomson	2 matches	2001 - 2002
Julian Gray	2 matches	2001 - 2002
Dougie Freedman	2 matches	2001 - 2002

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/02/1999. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Crystal Palace

David Wright	3 matches	1999 - 2002
Rodney Jack	3 matches	1999 - 2002
Dave Walton	3 matches	1999 - 2002
Shaun Smith	3 matches	1999 - 2002
Phil Charnock	2 matches	1999 - 2001
Dean Ashton	2 matches	2001 - 2002