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Crystal Palace vs Manchester United

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Selhurst Park

Date:  21st September 2024

Kick-off time – 17:30 GMT

Crystal Palace will look to get their first league win of the season this Saturday when they welcome Manchester United to Selhurst Park for their fifth Premier League game of the season.

After a brilliant end to last season, Oliver Glasner’s side were expected to kick on this season after successfully keeping the core of their team, except Michael Olise, who moved to Bayern Munich. However, it has been a poor start to the season for the Eagles who are yet to win any of their opening league matches (D2, L2) for the first time since the infamous reign of Frank de Boer in 2017/18.

They will be hoping that they can build on their mid-week win over QPR in the EFL Cup when they welcome Manchester United. Glasner’s men thumped the Red Devils 4-0 in the last class between both sides.

That win continued a dramatic turnaround in the history of this matchup. The Eagles were often the worst off whenever they played United, failing to win 12 consecutive home H2Hs across all competitions (D3, L9) between 1991 and 2020. But they now find themselves unbeaten in the last four meetings on this ground (W2, D2), conceding just one goal in that run.

Meanwhile, Manchester United will look to make it three consecutive wins in all competitions when they face Palace on Saturday. The Red Devils have had a decent week, winning their last two games while scoring ten times without reply.

After a 3-0 league win at Southampton last week, they followed up with a 7-0 EFL Cup thumping of Barnsley in what is comfortably their biggest win under Erik ten Hag’s leadership. The Dutchman described it as a “perfect night” and he will be hoping to get another perfect performance on Saturday against Palace.

Yet, some United fans may be sceptical of their side getting a result here as the Red Devils have won just two of their last eight away league matches (D2, L4). The visitors have also endured ‘capital punishment’ of late, winning just two of their last 16 trips to London in this competition (D4, L10), with both of those victories coming against Fulham.

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

October 19, 2024
Tottenham Hotspur 12:30 West Ham United
Newcastle United 15:00 Brighton & Hov…
Southampton 15:00 Leicester City
Fulham 15:00 Aston Villa
Manchester United 15:00 Brentford
Ipswich Town 15:00 Everton
AFC Bournemouth 17:30 Arsenal
October 20, 2024
Wolverhampton Wanderers 14:00 Manchester City
Liverpool 16:30 Chelsea
October 21, 2024
Nottingham Forest 20:00 Crystal Palace
October 25, 2024
Leicester City 20:00 Nottingham Forest
October 26, 2024
Aston Villa 15:00 AFC Bournemouth
Brentford 15:00 Ipswich Town
Brighton & Hov… 15:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Manchester City 15:00 Southampton
Everton 17:30 Fulham
October 27, 2024
West Ham United 16:00 Manchester United
Crystal Palace 16:00 Tottenham Hotspur
Chelsea 16:00 Newcastle United
Arsenal 18:30 Liverpool

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 7 6 0 1 13 2 +11 18
2 Manchester City 7 5 2 0 17 8 +9 17
3 Arsenal 7 5 2 0 15 6 +9 17
4 Chelsea 7 4 2 1 16 8 +8 14
5 Aston Villa 7 4 2 1 12 9 +3 14
6 Brighton & Hov… 7 3 3 1 13 10 +3 12
7 Newcastle United 7 3 3 1 8 7 +1 12
8 Fulham 7 3 2 2 10 8 +2 11
9 Tottenham Hotspur 7 3 1 3 14 8 +6 10
10 Nottingham Forest 7 2 4 1 7 6 +1 10
11 Brentford 7 3 1 3 13 13 +0 10
12 West Ham United 7 2 2 3 10 11 -1 8
13 AFC Bournemouth 7 2 2 3 8 10 -2 8
14 Manchester United 7 2 2 3 5 8 -3 8
15 Leicester City 7 1 3 3 9 12 -3 6
16 Everton 7 1 2 4 7 15 -8 5
17 Ipswich Town 7 0 4 3 6 14 -8 4
18 Crystal Palace 7 0 3 4 5 10 -5 3
19 Southampton 7 0 1 6 4 15 -11 1
20 Wolverhampton Wanderers 7 0 1 6 9 21 -12 1

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