Crystal Palace, who’ve stored clear sheets in every of their previous three Premier League video games, tackle a Manchester United aspect overwhelmed by 10-man Everton on Monday. BBC Sport examines among the key themes earlier than Sunday’s match (12:00 GMT).
Palace laborious to attain in opposition to
There are few sides more durable to interrupt down than Palace proper now. Final weekend’s 2-0 win at Wolves means Oliver Glasner’s crew have gone 321 minutes with out conceding a Premier League aim.
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The Eagles have additionally shipped simply 9 targets of their opening 12 league video games, their lowest complete at this stage of a season for 44 years.
Their complete of 20 factors, in the meantime, is their highest at this level of a top-flight marketing campaign since 1991-92, after they ultimately completed third.
Whereas their factors haul has been equally divided between residence and away matches, they’re significantly laborious to beat at Selhurst Park.
Palace haven’t misplaced a Premier League match there since shedding to Everton in February, a run of 12 video games, which is the longest present unbeaten sequence at residence within the competitors.
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United’s mini-revival ended
Manchester United made undesirable historical past in opposition to Everton on Monday, shedding their first Premier League residence match through which the opposition went all the way down to 10 males.
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With Benjamin Sesko and Matheus Cunha unavailable via harm, the Reds struggled to interrupt down the Merseysiders. The consequence ended United’s five-game unbeaten run and offered a actuality examine, in keeping with head coach Ruben Amorim.
“These 5 weeks, everyone seems to be praising our evolution,” Amorim mentioned afterwards.
“However I am at all times saying the identical issues: we’re nowhere close to the second we are supposed to be on this membership.”
That’s underlined by United’s poor document in opposition to Crystal Palace and in London typically.
The Purple Devils have failed to attain in every of their earlier 4 Premier League video games in opposition to the Eagles and have received simply three of their previous 26 top-flight matches within the capital (all, by the way, in opposition to Fulham).
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