Crystal Palace vs West Ham United
Match pulse
CRYAttacking pressure by 5 minutes
Who won: C Palace 1-0
Crystal Palace beat West Ham United 1-0 on Saturday, May 29, 2004 at Principality Stadium. Goals for C Palace: Neil Shipperley (62').
Play by play
- 94'
For Palace, it's celebration time and trips to Anfield and Old Trafford next season. For West Ham more trips to Burnley, Stoke and Reading and a depressing trip back to East London.
- 94'
Dowie has transformed Palace in the short time he has been there, a remarkable turn around. It has been a great contest, plenty of ebb and flow and worthy winners at the end of it.
- 94'
Fulltime! Palace are up! Dowie has done it!
- 93'
Time running out and West Ham hoist the ball upfront
- 92'
Etherington gets a card as does Routledge. Nice brawl though, handbags and ten paces!!
- 92'
Mass brawl!!
- 92'
Hughes wins a corner for Palace
- 91'
Deane flashes a shot into the box and it ricochets into Lomas' path and bounces of him and out for a goalkick, so close...
- 90'
Four minutes of added time - agony for the fans, and my fingers!
- 89'
Palace apply more pressure - decent effort goes over
- 88'
Reo-Coker is furious - the linesman gets an earful after a corner is not given!
- 87'
Dailly is forced to knock the ball into the stands as Palace go for the knockout punch
- 86'
Bywater charges to the centre circle to thwart a nascent attack
- 85'
Etherington blots his copy book by lashing in a poor corner
- 85'
Corner for the Hammers
- 84'
Etherington speeds down the wing and fires in a deep cross but off his line comes Nico Vaesen
- 84'
Time running out for West Ham
- 83'
Carrick was felled on the very edge of the box - close, close, close call
- 82'
Penalty claim for the Hammers is waved away by Ref Graham Poll
- 81'
72,523 people at the Millennium stadium - more than the FA Cup final last week - one for the stat fans there
- 80'
Palace looking very organised, dealing with hoofed balls towards Deane, three centre halfs ensuring there are no knock downs
- 79'
Just over ten minutes to go, Palace closing in on a £30million payday
- 78'
Bywater does well, coming off his line to claim a danerous cross
- 77'
Palace soak up another Hammers foray and break forward
- 76'
Hughes with a clumsy tackle on Etherington - another player with a bright future, at least on the strength of his showing today
Leaders
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