Crystal Palace (A) - Sun 14th Dec, 14:00 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[Brightwell Bros.]

O’Reilly and Gonzalez looked seriously gassed in injury time.

Maybe Ait Nouri comes in, or they get through this game and don’t play in the cup game to Brentford.

Honestly, if Pep does a Leverkusen mid-week who could blame him. Full strength tomorrow, then swap in and out for West Ham and Forest. I think it's doable.

 

[jimharri]

Honestly, if Pep does a Leverkusen mid-week who could blame him. Full strength tomorrow, then swap in and out for West Ham and Forest. I think it's doable.

Wednesday night is the game for the Leverkusen XI to get another outing.

 

[coolcity]

Gvardiol and O'Reilly are young, they can recover well. Bernie, on the other hand, is likely to struggle. Can see Reijnders starting instead of him.

Wouldn't be too surprised to see Marmoush on the left instead of Doku who might be tired after two nearly full games vs Sunderland and Real.

Doku looked absolutely shattered late on the the game vs Madrid. I was surprised he wasn't amongst the first batch of substitutions.

Would like to see more of Khusanov, I think he's as talented as Cherki, we just haven't seen it yet.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

We have to win this one against our bogey team.

 

[citytill1die84]

We have to win this one against our bogey team.

Bogey team? Nowhere near. They have beat us twice in 20 Premier League games.

Only beat us once in 12 at Selhurst Park and that was 10 years ago. 8 wins 3 draws.

 

[lionheart]

Bogey team? Nowhere near. They have beat us twice in 20 Premier League games.

Only beat us once in 12 at Selhurst Park and that was 10 years ago. 8 wins 3 draws.

Excuse me but Wembley in May 2025 doesn't count?

 

[jimharri]

Excuse me but Wembley in May 2025 doesn't count?

That was a shitshow. He did, though, say "Premier League" games.

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

Need to get revenge for the final tomorrow, still annoys me. Hopefully the lads have recovered after their efforts in Madrid.
Go full strength tomorrow, same starting 11 as Madrid.
Try and get that cheating twat Henderson sent off for a bonus.

 

[Withnail]

Difficult game, play the same team as Wednesday and then make changes for Brentford.

Munoz being out is a big miss for them and I'm hoping Doku can take advantage against an ageing Clyne.

 

[CambridgeExileBlue]

Bogey team? Nowhere near. They have beat us twice in 20 Premier League games.

Only beat us once in 12 at Selhurst Park and that was 10 years ago. 8 wins 3 draws.

Seen us play Palace multiple times including at S park and never seen us win.

I will not go tomorrow and jinx it.

 

[mosssideblue]

If and its a big if. We can dig a win out at palace ill start thinking we can really win the league.

Why is it a big if?

 

[Bri1975]

Palace currently have 15th best home record and 1st in the away table ! :

Home :


Away :

 

[citysince88]

Why is it a big if?

Primarily because they set up to play on the counter, we concede goals against that sort of team. Palace always score against us. Add to that, its away from home, we've just played Madrid away and we dont really have the rotation options to keep things fresh and maintain quality.

I just think the is the sort of fixture we would have pushed through in past seasons. I dont think we have the squad to do that now.

Here's hoping im proven wrong tommorow though.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Palace haven't been the same without Sarr, for me.

They might not have Sarr on their side tomorrow, but they'll very much have Var.

 

[the gambler]

Where's everyone drinking prematch in Selhurst?

Is the away end open early? Always remember them opening the bar three hours before kick off on Demba Ba day. Best pre/game ever, then Yaya scored early

 

[lasereyes]

Excuse me but Wembley in May 2025 doesn't count?

Assuming we are counting games playing with the official Football rule book, no it doesnt

 

[Gesario]

Why is it a big if?

Win tomorrow and the tarquins will know Cmon City they’re on a par with the other cnuts

 

[Gorbachev]

Assuming we are counting games playing with the official Football rule book, no it doesnt

Biggest bit of corruption I have seen in recent memory was that non-red card.

If that was Ederson he would have been straight off.

I still can't believe Lineker and co got away with the comment saying football won and the ref didn't ruin the game.

 

[Stelea]

100% expecting to be seeing Rico and Silvinho tomorrow

 

[balotellishaircut]

Just win City pls