Fulham 0–1 Crystal Palace
- Season
- EFL Cup
- 2026 · Round of 16
- Venue
- Craven CottageLondon
Referee
Simon Hooper
EFL Cup: Crystal Palace beat Fulham 1–0. Goals: Eddie Nketiah 37'.
Top rated
The provider's match ratings, out of 10.
S. Berge7.2
Oscar Bobb7.2
T. Cairney7.1
D. Henderson7.6
E. Nketiah7.4
Óscar Mingueza7.4
How the score moved
The running score, step by step, with every score marked.
- Fulham
- Crystal Palace
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| When | Fulham | Crystal Palace |
|---|---|---|
| 37′ · Eddie Nketiah | 0 | 1 |
| 90′ | 0 | 1 |
Chances and finishing
Expected goals (xG) weigh every shot by how often a chance like it is scored. Set against the goals, they show who made the better chances and who took them.
- Fulham
- Crystal Palace
FulhamGoals0xG1.58
- xG per shot
- 0.11
- Goals minus xG
- -1.58
Crystal PalaceGoals1xG0.58
- xG per shot
- 0.14
- Goals minus xG
- +0.42
How the chances split
Fulham win 62%Draw 25%Crystal Palace win 13%
Each side's xG treated as the average of a Poisson distribution of goals: how often this match ends each way if its chances were played out again and again.
Show as a table
| Fulham | Crystal Palace | |
|---|---|---|
| Goals | 0 | 1 |
| Expected goals (xG) | 1.58 | 0.58 |
| xG per shot | 0.113 | 0.145 |
| Goals minus xG | -1.58 | +0.42 |
| Fulham win | 62% | |
| Draw | 25% | |
| Crystal Palace win | 13% |
Goals & cards
- Sander BergeFoul19′
- 37′Eddie NketiahAssist: Oscar Mingueza
- 50′Jefferson LermaFoul
- 63′Evann GuessandFoul
Key stats
- 74%Ball Possession26%
- 1.58Expected goals0.58
- 14Total Shots4
- 4Shots on goal3
- 9Corner Kicks0
Half by half
- Fulham
- Crystal Palace
| Team | 1H | 2H | T |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fulham | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Crystal Palace | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Facts
From each side's recent results and their meetings, before this match.
- Fulham: 2 won, 2 drawn, 1 lost in their last 5 matches.
- Fulham have scored in each of their last 4 matches.
- Fulham kept 3 clean sheets in their last 5 matches.
- Fulham scored 4 and conceded 3 in their last 5 matches.
- Crystal Palace: 1 won, 1 drawn, 3 lost in their last 5 matches.
- Crystal Palace have not won in their last 4 matches.
- Crystal Palace scored 7 and conceded 13 in their last 5 matches.
- Their last meeting: Fulham 2–3 Crystal Palace.
Recent form
Timeline
- Sander BergeFoul19′
- 37′Eddie NketiahAssist: Oscar Mingueza
- 50′Jefferson LermaFoul
- Off: Cesar Palacios PerezOn: Josh King58′
- Off: Hugo LarssonOn: Tom Cairney58′
- Off: Kenny TeteOn: Timothy Castagne58′
- 61′Off: Ben ChilwellOn: Tyrick Mitchell
- 61′Off: Cheick Oumar DoucouréOn: Adam Wharton
- 63′Evann GuessandFoul
- 71′Off: Eddie NketiahOn: Dwight McNeil
- Off: Alex IwobiOn: Gonzalo García72′
- 77′Off: Dario OsorioOn: Yeremy Pino
- 77′Off: Evann GuessandOn: Daichi Kamada
- Off: Oscar BobbOn: Kevin Santos Lopes de Macedo82′
Chances and finishing
Expected goals (xG) weigh every shot by how often a chance like it is scored. Set against the goals, they show who made the better chances and who took them.
- Fulham
- Crystal Palace
FulhamGoals0xG1.58
- xG per shot
- 0.11
- Goals minus xG
- -1.58
Crystal PalaceGoals1xG0.58
- xG per shot
- 0.14
- Goals minus xG
- +0.42
How the chances split
Fulham win 62%Draw 25%Crystal Palace win 13%
Each side's xG treated as the average of a Poisson distribution of goals: how often this match ends each way if its chances were played out again and again.
Show as a table
| Fulham | Crystal Palace | |
|---|---|---|
| Goals | 0 | 1 |
| Expected goals (xG) | 1.58 | 0.58 |
| xG per shot | 0.113 | 0.145 |
| Goals minus xG | -1.58 | +0.42 |
| Fulham win | 62% | |
| Draw | 25% | |
| Crystal Palace win | 13% |
Every shot, and how it ended
Goals, shots the keeper saved, shots off target and shots blocked before they reached goal — then where they were taken from.
- Goals
- Saved
- Off target
- Blocked
Fulham14 shots446
Crystal Palace4 shots121
- 113Inside the box
- 31Outside the box
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| Fulham | Crystal Palace | |
|---|---|---|
| Goals | 0 | 1 |
| Saved | 4 | 2 |
| Off target | 4 | 1 |
| Blocked | 6 | 0 |
| Inside the box | 11 | 3 |
| Outside the box | 3 | 1 |
The ball: possession and passing
Who had it, how often they moved it, and how many of those passes found a teammate.
- Fulham
- Crystal Palace
74%Possession26%
91%717 of 789 passes74%207 of 280 passes
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| Fulham | Crystal Palace | |
|---|---|---|
| Possession | 74% | 26% |
| Passes | 789 | 280 |
| Completed | 717 | 207 |
| Pass accuracy | 91% | 74% |
Discipline
Fouls, cards and offsides, and when each card was shown.
- 1112Fouls
- 12Yellow cards
- 00Red cards
- 02Offsides
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| Fulham | Crystal Palace | |
|---|---|---|
| Fouls | 11 | 12 |
| Yellow cards | 1 | 2 |
| Red cards | 0 | 0 |
| Offsides | 0 | 2 |
Every player's rating
The provider's match ratings out of ten, one dot per player who featured. Point at a dot for the name.
- Fulham
- Crystal Palace
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| Player | Team | Rating | Min |
|---|---|---|---|
| D. Henderson | Crystal Palace | 7.6 | 90 |
| E. Nketiah | Crystal Palace | 7.4 | 71 |
| Óscar Mingueza | Crystal Palace | 7.4 | 90 |
| S. Berge | Fulham | 7.2 | 90 |
| Oscar Bobb | Fulham | 7.2 | 82 |
| T. Cairney | Fulham | 7.1 | 32 |
| C. Richards | Crystal Palace | 7.1 | 90 |
| J. Andersen | Fulham | 7.0 | 90 |
| B. Lecomte | Fulham | 7.0 | 90 |
| A. Iwobi | Fulham | 6.9 | 72 |
| D. McNeil | Crystal Palace | 6.8 | 19 |
| C. Bassey | Fulham | 6.8 | 90 |
| Yeremy Pino | Crystal Palace | 6.8 | 13 |
| T. Mitchell | Crystal Palace | 6.7 | 29 |
| D. Kamada | Crystal Palace | 6.7 | 13 |
| T. Castagne | Fulham | 6.6 | 32 |
| W. Hughes | Crystal Palace | 6.5 | 90 |
| Gonzalo García | Fulham | 6.5 | 18 |
| A. Wharton | Crystal Palace | 6.5 | 29 |
| César Palacios | Fulham | 6.5 | 58 |
| Kevin | Fulham | 6.4 | 8 |
| E. Guessand | Crystal Palace | 6.3 | 77 |
| D. Osorio | Crystal Palace | 6.3 | 77 |
| Joshua King | Fulham | 6.3 | 32 |
| C. Doucouré | Crystal Palace | 6.2 | 61 |
| J. Lerma | Crystal Palace | 6.2 | 90 |
| Rodrigo Muniz | Fulham | 6.2 | 90 |
| H. Larsson | Fulham | 6.2 | 58 |
| H. Ahanor | Crystal Palace | 6.1 | 90 |
| A. Robinson | Fulham | 6.0 | 90 |
| B. Chilwell | Crystal Palace | 5.8 | 61 |
| K. Tete | Fulham | 5.8 | 58 |
The goalkeepers
Saves against shots on target faced; goals prevented is the provider's measure of goals saved beyond what the shots' quality predicted.
67%
B. Lecomte
B. Lecomte- Saves
- 2
- Conceded
- 1
- Rating
- 7.0
100%D. Henderson
D. Henderson- Saves
- 4
- Conceded
- 0
- Rating
- 7.6
- Fulham
- Crystal Palace
Top stats
- 74%Ball Possession26%
- 1.58Expected goals0.58
- 14Total Shots4
- 4Shots on goal3
- 9Corner Kicks0
Shots
- 4Shots off Goal1
- 6Blocked shots0
- 11Shots insidebox3
- 3Shots outsidebox1
Passing
- 789Total passes280
- 717Passes accurate207
- 91%Pass accuracy74%
Defence & set pieces
- 2Goalkeeper Saves4
- 12Free Kicks11
- 0Offsides2
Discipline
- 11Fouls12
- 1Yellow Cards2
- 0Red Cards0
Half by half
- Fulham
- Crystal Palace
| Team | 1H | 2H | T |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fulham | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Crystal Palace | 1 | 0 | 1 |
237.0B. Lecomte
156.2H. Larsson
167.2S. Berge
96.2Rodrigo Muniz
97.4⚽E. Nketiah
296.3E. Guessand
246.3D. Osorio
17.6D. HendersonFulham4-2-3-1Crystal Palace3-4-2-1Fulham4-2-3-1Coach: Álvaro Arbeloa
Bench
24Joshua KingM
20Manuel ÁngelM
6H. ReedM
1B. LenoG
4Jorge CuencaD
21T. CastagneD
10T. CairneyM
7Gonzalo GarcíaF
11KevinF
Crystal Palace3-4-2-1Coach: P. Sage
Bench
5A. DisasiD
12Z. GozoF
18D. KamadaM
25A. KhalailiD
11D. McNeilF
3T. MitchellD
10Yeremy PinoM
20A. WhartonM
44W. BenítezG
| 11KevinF | 8 | 6.4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6H. ReedM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20Manuel ÁngelM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1B. LenoG | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24Joshua KingM | 32 | 6.3 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7Gonzalo GarcíaF | 18 | 6.5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 10T. CairneyM | 32 | 7.1 | 1 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21T. CastagneD | 32 | 6.6 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4Jorge CuencaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23B. LecomteG | 90 | 7.0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2K. TeteD | 58 | 5.8 | 1 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5J. AndersenD | 90 | 7.0 | 2 | 0 | 168 | 0 | 163 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 3C. BasseyD | 90 | 6.8 | 0 | 0 | 127 | 0 | 118 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 33A. RobinsonD | 90 | 6.0 | 1 | 1 | 54 | 1 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 16S. BergeM | 90 | 7.2 | 3 | 0 | 94 | 1 | 92 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 15H. LarssonM | 58 | 6.2 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14Oscar BobbM | 82 | 7.2 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 5 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 8César PalaciosM | 58 | 6.5 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 17A. IwobiM | 72 | 6.9 | 2 | 1 | 59 | 3 | 50 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9Rodrigo MunizF | 90 | 6.2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |