Brighton vs Crystal Palace

15 December 2024 · Premier League · 2024/25 · Referee Michael Oliver

Full time 1 – 3

Half-time: 0–2

Marc Guehi 87’ (og)

Trevoh Chalobah 27’
Ismaila Sarr 33’, 82’

Match summary

Crystal Palace took a 3-1 win at Brighton. Crystal Palace led 2-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Trevoh Chalobah put Crystal Palace ahead from a corner in the 27th minute, set up by Ismaila Sarr and Ismaila Sarr made it 0-2 with a header in the 33rd minute, set up by Tyrick Mitchell. In the second half, Sarr made it 0-3 in the 82nd minute, set up by Eddie Nketiah and Guehi's own goal pulled one back to make it 1-3 from a corner in the 87th minute.

The chances backed that up: Crystal Palace created 3.05 expected goals (xG) from 13 shots to Brighton's 1.32 from 17.

Match stats

17 Shots 13

5 Shots on Target 5

8 Corners 5

1 Yellow Cards 4

0 Red Cards 0

1.32 xG 3.01

1.32 Non-penalty xG 3.01

9 Deep Completions 6

Key events

Brighton Crystal Palace

Kick-off

27’

Trevoh Chalobah
Assist: Ismaila Sarr

0-1

33’

Ismaila Sarr
Assist: Tyrick Mitchell

0-2

Half-time0-2

82’

Ismaila Sarr
Assist: Eddie Nketiah

0-3

Marc Guehi
Own goal

1-3

87’

Full-time1-3

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Brighton

Lewis Dunk

Crystal Palace

Dean Henderson
Marc Guehi
Daniel Muñoz
Ismaila Sarr

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Brighton 1.32 xGCrystal Palace 3.05 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Crystal Palace attacking Brighton attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Bart Verbruggen	GK	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Tariq Lamptey	DEF	50	1	0.07	0.00	0
Jan Paul van Hecke	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.07	1
Lewis Dunk	DEF	90	2	0.41	0.00	0
Estupiñán	DEF	90	1	0.01	0.06	1
Carlos Baleba	MID	90	2	0.02	0.02	1
Yasin Ayari	MID	76	1	0.07	0.44	2
Yankuba Minteh	MID	76	0	0.00	0.00	0
Georginio Rutter	MID	76	1	0.02	0.00	0
Kaoru Mitoma	MID	90	3	0.39	0.17	4
João Pedro	FWD	90	2	0.17	0.36	2
Julio Enciso	Sub	40	3	0.11	0.01	1
Brajan Gruda	Sub	14	1	0.06	0.00	0
Evan Ferguson	Sub	14	0	0.00	0.08	1
Simon Adingra	Sub	14	0	0.00	0.00	0
Mats Wieffer	Sub	1	0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Dean Henderson	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Maxence Lacroix	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Trevoh Chalobah	DEF	90	1		1	0.70	0.00	0
Marc Guehi	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Daniel Muñoz	MID	90			1	0.48	0.12	2
Tyrick Mitchell	MID	89		1	0	0.00	1.06	2
Jefferson Lerma	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Will Hughes	MID	89			0	0.00	0.04	1
Ismaila Sarr	MID	90	2	1	5	1.24	0.78	2
Eberechi Eze	MID	64			1	0.05	0.02	1
Jean-Philippe Mateta	FWD	64			1	0.02	0.00	0
Daichi Kamada	Sub	26			0	0.00	0.27	1
Eddie Nketiah	Sub	26		1	3	0.42	0.66	3
Cheick Oumar Doucoure	Sub	1			1	0.14	0.00	0
Nathaniel Clyne	Sub	1			0	0.00	0.00	0
Justin Devenny	Sub	1			0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Brighton win 50% Avg odds 1.90

Draw 26% Avg odds 3.69

Crystal Palace win 24% Avg odds 4.05

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Brighton W W D L D

Crystal Palace L D D W D

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Brighton 4-1 Crystal Palace, 03 Feb 24 Next meeting: Crystal Palace 2-1 Brighton, 05 Apr 25 All Brighton vs Crystal Palace meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.