Crystal Palace 2-0 Cardiff Stats and Highlights

Cameron Jerome scored his first goal for Crystal Palace as they beat Cardiff City and secured their first back-to-back Premier League wins since 2004.

Former Cardiff striker Jerome headed Palace ahead seconds after Fraizer Campbell saw his close-range header saved for the Welsh side.

Marouane Chamakh’s volley doubled the lead and Jerome was denied a second by David Marshall’s goal-line save.

Palace have taken 10 points from 15, while Cardiff have one win in nine.

Watch English Premier League match, Crystal Palace Vs Cardiff stats and highlights here.

Venue: Selhurst Park
Date: Saturday, 7 December
Kick off: 15:00 GMT

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Head-to-head

Crystal Palace have won 18 of the 30 previous home league games with Cardiff (D6, L6), including a 3-2 victory last season – a win percentage of 60%.

Only twice in the last 16 games have either club won this fixture by more than one goal.

In the last three league meetings, the team to score first has ended up losing the game.

Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace have picked up seven points from their last four games, keeping clean sheets in three of them – that’s two points more than Manchester United over the same period.

All three of the Eagles’ victories have been against sides currently in the bottom half of the Premier League table.

Palace’s three league wins this season have all come under different managers: Ian Holloway, Keith Millen (caretaker manager) and Tony Pulis.

Pulis’s side are 11th based on the six-game form table.

Cardiff City

Cardiff’s only win in their last eight games was their south Wales derby victory over Swansea on 3 November (W1, D3, L4).

The Bluebirds have scored 11 times in the Premier League this season; only opponents Crystal Palace (8) have scored less.

Cardiff have failed to score in their last two league games and found the back of the net only three times in the last 619 minutes.

Only Everton and West Brom (six) have drawn more games than Malky Mackay’s side (five).

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