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Crystal Palace vs Leeds United

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Selhurst Park

Date: 25th April 2022

Kick-off time – 20:00 GMT

Crystal Palace will welcome Leeds United to Selhurst Park this Monday in the 34th round of the 2021/22 PL season.

The Eagles have endured a few tough weeks after a bruising FA Cup semi-final exit sandwiched between Premier League (PL) losses to Leicester City (2-1) and Newcastle United (1-0).

Their last loss to the Magpies made it three losses in a row for Patrick Vieira’s side and was also the second game in a row where they failed to score. And so, they come into this tie needing to go ‘back to basics’ according to Vieira, who will be desperate not to allow his good work this season to go to the drain.

The Frenchman has guided Palace to 37 points this season and he will be desperate to finish within the top ten; a feat that looked likely last month after his side went on a seven-game-winning run in all competitions.

They will fancy their chances of getting a result in this game as they come into this tie unbeaten in their last five home game (W3, D2). They are also protecting a run of three home clean sheets, and can extend their unbeaten run of home H2Hs to six should they equal a run of four home shutouts last achieved in 2012.

For Leeds United, their goal remains to finish outside of the relegation zone after staying close to relegation for much of the season.

The Lily Whites made it four games unbeaten last time out as they beat struggling Watford 3-0 away from home. That result means that they are now five points ahead of 18th-placed Burnley; a small margin considering they still have six games to play.

And so, Jesse Marsch will want to win this game by all means to ensure that they can put some distance between them and the other relegation teams.

Given that they have scored six goals across their last two away games following a run of three straight road trips where they lost ‘to nil’, they will once again count on their gelling attack to produce the goods in London.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Premier League Fixtures:

December 7, 2024
Everton 01:00 Liverpool
December 26, 2024
Manchester City 13:30 Everton
AFC Bournemouth 16:00 Crystal Palace
Southampton 16:00 West Ham United
Chelsea 16:00 Fulham
Nottingham Forest 16:00 Tottenham Hotspur
Newcastle United 16:00 Aston Villa
Wolverhampton Wanderers 18:30 Manchester United
Liverpool 21:00 Leicester City
December 27, 2024
Brighton & Hov… 20:30 Brentford
Arsenal 21:15 Ipswich Town
December 29, 2024
Leicester City 15:30 Manchester City
Tottenham Hotspur 16:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Fulham 16:00 AFC Bournemouth
Crystal Palace 16:00 Southampton
Everton 16:00 Nottingham Forest
West Ham United 18:15 Liverpool
December 30, 2024
Aston Villa 20:45 Brighton & Hov…
Ipswich Town 20:45 Chelsea
Manchester United 21:00 Newcastle United

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 16 12 3 1 37 16 +21 39
2 Chelsea 17 10 5 2 37 19 +18 35
3 Arsenal 17 9 6 2 34 16 +18 33
4 Nottingham Forest 17 9 4 4 23 19 +4 31
5 AFC Bournemouth 17 8 4 5 27 21 +6 28
6 Aston Villa 17 8 4 5 26 26 +0 28
7 Manchester City 17 8 3 6 29 25 +4 27
8 Newcastle United 17 7 5 5 27 21 +6 26
9 Fulham 17 6 7 4 24 22 +2 25
10 Brighton & Hov… 17 6 7 4 27 26 +1 25
11 Tottenham Hotspur 17 7 2 8 39 25 +14 23
12 Brentford 17 7 2 8 32 32 +0 23
13 Manchester United 17 6 4 7 21 22 -1 22
14 West Ham United 17 5 5 7 22 30 -8 20
15 Everton 16 3 7 6 14 21 -7 16
16 Crystal Palace 17 3 7 7 18 26 -8 16
17 Leicester City 17 3 5 9 21 37 -16 14
18 Wolverhampton Wanderers 17 3 3 11 27 40 -13 12
19 Ipswich Town 17 2 6 9 16 32 -16 12
20 Southampton 17 1 3 13 11 36 -25 6

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