Crystal Palace vs Brighton

5 April 2025 · Premier League · 2024/25 · Referee Anthony Taylor

Full time 2 – 1

Half-time: 1–1

Jean-Philippe Mateta 3’
Daniel Muñoz 55’

Danny Welbeck 31’

Match summary

Crystal Palace won 2-1 at home to Brighton. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Jean-Philippe Mateta put Crystal Palace ahead in the 3rd minute, set up by Eberechi Eze, Danny Welbeck equalised in the 31st minute, set up by Yankuba Minteh, and Daniel Muñoz won it in the 55th minute, set up by Eberechi Eze.

Brighton can feel hard done by, creating 1.28 expected goals (xG) from 11 shots to Crystal Palace's 0.44 from 8. Both sides had a player sent off.

Match stats

8 Shots 11

3 Shots on Target 5

2 Corners 4

0 Yellow Cards 1

2 Red Cards 1

0.44 xG 1.27

0.44 Non-penalty xG 1.27

1 Deep Completions 7

Key events

Crystal Palace Brighton

Kick-off

Jean-Philippe Mateta
Assist: Eberechi Eze

1-0

3’

31’

Danny Welbeck
Assist: Yankuba Minteh

1-1

Half-time1-1

Daniel Muñoz
Assist: Eberechi Eze

2-1

55’

Full-time2-1

Bookings

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

Crystal Palace

Marc Guehi
Eddie Nketiah

Brighton

Jan Paul van Hecke
Solly March

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.

Crystal Palace 0.44 xGBrighton 1.28 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Brighton attacking Crystal Palace attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Dean Henderson	GK	90			0	0.00	0.09	1
Jefferson Lerma	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Maxence Lacroix	DEF	90			2	0.17	0.00	0
Marc Guehi	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.01	1
Daniel Muñoz	MID	90	1		1	0.06	0.02	1
Tyrick Mitchell	MID	64			0	0.00	0.00	0
Daichi Kamada	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Adam Wharton	MID	83			0	0.00	0.17	2
Ismaila Sarr	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Eberechi Eze	MID	83		2	2	0.10	0.11	2
Jean-Philippe Mateta	FWD	69	1		1	0.05	0.00	0
Ben Chilwell	Sub	26			1	0.04	0.00	0
Eddie Nketiah	Sub	10			0	0.00	0.00	0
Will Hughes	Sub	7			0	0.00	0.00	0
Justin Devenny	Sub	7			1	0.02	0.00	0
Joel Ward	Sub	1			0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Bart Verbruggen	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Jack Hinshelwood	DEF	90			1	0.04	0.00	0
Jan Paul van Hecke	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.04	1
Lewis Dunk	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Estupiñán	DEF	82			2	0.09	0.00	0
Carlos Baleba	MID	90			2	0.03	0.00	0
Diego Gómez	MID	73			0	0.00	0.07	2
Yankuba Minteh	MID	73		1	0	0.00	0.59	1
Matt O'Riley	MID	64			0	0.00	0.00	0
Kaoru Mitoma	MID	64			1	0.05	0.08	1
Danny Welbeck	FWD	90	1		2	0.87	0.00	0
João Pedro	Sub	26			0	0.00	0.02	1
Simon Adingra	Sub	26			0	0.00	0.00	0
Brajan Gruda	Sub	17			0	0.00	0.06	1
Solly March	Sub	17			0	0.00	0.04	1
Yasin Ayari	Sub	8			2	0.12	0.00	0
Mats Wieffer	Sub	1			1	0.06	0.09	1

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Crystal Palace win 38% Avg odds 2.53

Draw 28% Avg odds 3.39

Brighton win 34% Avg odds 2.81

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

Form going into the game

Crystal Palace L W W W D

Brighton W W W D L

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Brighton 1-3 Crystal Palace, 15 Dec 24 Next meeting: Crystal Palace 0-0 Brighton, 09 Nov 25 All Crystal Palace vs Brighton 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.