Crystal Palace vs Watford
Match pulse
CRYAttacking pressure by 5 minutes
| Team | 1H | 2H | ET1 | ET2 | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRY | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| WAT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Who won: C Palace 1-0
Crystal Palace beat Watford 1-0 on Monday, May 27, 2013 at Wembley Stadium. Goals for C Palace: Kevin Phillips (105'+1' pen).
Play by play
- 120'
<b>"I felt confident, and I wanted to take it. Delighted to see it fly in the top corner - and if that is my last game, what a way to sign off," says veteran striker and penalty hero Phillips. It's all over at Wembley in the Championship play-off final - Crystal Palace have beaten Watford by a goal to nil.</b>
- 120'
<b>"Speechless. Exhausted and speechless.This is all I wanted, to leave Palace knowing they were in the Premier League," says Wilfried Zaha. Few could have done more than him to make that happen.</b>
- 120'
<b>The final whistle goes on a 1-0 win for the Londoners, and it is a deserved win. Palace players are delirious. Kevin Phillips, with a penalty right on half time of extra time, made the difference. Watford never really got going. Their players are lying on the pitch, desolate. Zola is trying to offer words of comfort</b>.
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<b>AND CRYSTAL PALACE ARE BACK IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE!</b>
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Gabbidon heads the corner away. Almunia is up. Palace head clear...
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Palace thump it long, deep into Watford territory. Back it comes. Out it goes, all the way back to Almunia. We are in added time of extra time. Deeney gets a flick and it's inches past the post off Gabbidon.
- 120'
<b>OFF THE LINE BY PALACE - Ward is in the right place to head clear for the Eagles.</b>
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Seconds to go. Geijo heads a ball on. Forestieri makes room and curls a shot in...
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Another long ball for Watford. There is a minute of the extra 30 left, and then whatever the referee sees fit to add.
- 118'
Ekstrand shoots, and it's bravely blocked. Abdi makes a total mess of the follow-up, floating it high and very wide.
- 117'
Throw to Watford, this time inside the Palace half. Cassetti crosses and Palace thump it away. A long way away.
- 116'
Less than five minutes between Crystal Palace and a return to the top flight now. They play the ball forward and it's a Watford throw. The Hornets are deep inside their own half. That's exactly where Palace want to see them.
- 115'
They try to build through Battocchio, but Gabbidon slams the door.
- 114'
Zaha on the left for Crystal Palace now. The south Londoners are keeping the ball well. Wilbraham and Ward combine on the right, but Watford eventually win the throw.
- 113'
Abdi floats it, but Speroni is behind it all the way and saves without difficulty.
- 113'
A committee of Hornets around the ball. The referee making sure the Palace wall is the required distance back.
- 112'
The Hornets are on halfway. They have rarely found an incisive ball, but Deeney makes a run and is brought down 30 yards out and central. Chance for Watford - Moritz the man adjudged to have fouled.
- 112'
Deeney flicks on from a long Watford ball forward, but it's straight through to Speroni.
- 111'
Zola knows less than ten minutes stand between his side and a painful defeat. Bettocchio tries to get away towards the right but Delaney - who has had a really fine afternoon - is there to clear.
- 110'
Hogg gets onto a ball down the right and wins a corner for Watford. They have to make something happen soon. Speroni claims well as the ball threatens to run loose.
- 109'
Ward tries a cross from the right, but it's far, far too long.
- 108'
Although Watford need the goal, Palace are attacking more. They know another goal would seal their Premier League place.
- 107'
Zaha's OK. Ekstrand was the man who had tangled with Wilbraham, but the Crystal Palace striker is back on his feet as well.
- 106'
Watford inside Palace territory. But Zaha gets the ball and floats a wonderful pass towards Phillips, who is just crowded out. Wilbraham is now in pain for Palace, and Zaha is walking gingerly. Remember, no more substitutes remain.
- 106'
<b>The second period begins. The ball is back with Almunia, who bowls it out and tries to get things going. No nonsense from Palace, who blast it straight back where it came from.</b>
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