Now this is not going to be an easy match, and no messing, but I'm puzzled as to how Palace are being presented as some sort of ogre by some on here. Of top six clubs, they have beaten one, and one only, this season. Liverpool did the double over them; so did Spurs; so did Chelsea; they took a point off the rags, and were then beaten; they've taken a point off Arsenal so far. Not very terrifying, is it? Now I have no hesitation in saying that we are better than any of those teams, by a distance. The game at our place was a complete one-off, with Townsend scoring a goal the likes of which he had never scored before, not even in his dreams, and will never score again.
We must win — no relying on Chelsea, or anyone else, to do us a favour (we saw last night: Lloris drops an absolute fucking clanger against the dippers, and saves a penalty against us! Thanks, Hugo…) And we will win. Especially if Bernardo is back. Any chance of that, by the way, or is he definitely out?
