Match Report
6 points and 6 places separated them: Crystal Palace U23 4th with 36, Fulham U23 10th with 30. On the form table Fulham U23 stood 5th over the last five rounds, despite being 10th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Crystal Palace U23 1.88 scored and 1.71 conceded per game, Fulham U23 1.58 and 1.92, with the league averaging 1.72.
The five-game form split read 3/15 points for Crystal Palace U23 against 9/15 for Fulham U23.
The referee was J. Durkin, with 100 matches in our database and 2.7 yellows per game on average. Crystal Palace Training Ground in Beckenham staged the fixture, a ground that holds 25,073. It was 2-2 at the break, and the second half added 1 goal for the 2-3 full-time score.