Hello Glaziers,
I moved to the UK earlier this year, and I adopted Palace as my club. I’ve been a fan since they played a friendly with my hometown back in ‘16. I got tickets to the West ham match, and I was wondering what all there is to do building up to the match around Croydon and Selhurst?
Thank you
I just had to use that pun somehow I hope it makes sense.
Line-up predictions
The line-up chosen by Arteta was predicted by 1.9% of voters, including:
u/LordLychee, and u/UzairIsmail
Score predictions
82% of voters correctly predicted an Arsenal win. 32% of voters predicted Arsenal to score 3 goals, 55% predicted Crystal Palace to score 1 goal, and 15% predicted the exact score line and result, including:
u/cinephile_gooner34, u/Cstl14, u/vincentsano, u/owenoconnor0813, u/League0fGaming, u/wildtoejam, u/normott, u/eikichi134, u/auba-laca-pepe, u/kizzaml, u/teetuz, u/Freien, u/averageMick14 and u/puslespillbrikke
Man of the Match
Pepe was awarded Man of the Match, as predicted by 4.5% of voters, including:
u/bongob10 and u/Citizen_Erased98
Miscellaneous Predictions
| Pepe goal | - u/Vrty33, u/bongob10 plus 1 other
| Martinelli goal | - u/wildtoejam
| Benteke goal | - u/andantenz and u/bradbobley
| Tierney assist | - u/david40904
| Odegaard assist | - u/UncleJuice14, u/Vrty33 plus 1 other
| Martinelli subbed on | - u/Vrty33
| Arsenal with three shots on target | - u/sennejaa
| Yellow card before 20th minute | - u/sandannn
| Leno makes at least 3 saves | - u/LordLychee
| Someone to score a brace | - u/tjanPgwm868
| VAR shenanigans | - u/gibbs2724 and u/eikichi134
| Roy Hodgson will get a standing ovation from the crowd as it's his last home game in charge. | - u/CosmicJoker96
The mostly arbitrary awards for best predictors of the game go to:
- u/LordLychee for correctly predicting the line-up chosen and Leno to make 3 saves.
- u/bongob10 for predicting Pepe to score and win Man of the Match
- u/Vrty33 for predicting a Pepe goal, Odegaard assist and Martinelli to be subbed on.
Solskjaer on Cavani fitness
This is what he told United’s in-house media just before the press conference, on Edinson Cavani:
“Edi has trained this morning and hopefully there is no reaction.
“There are another couple of knocks that we have to look at, from after the [Chelsea] game, and from the season’s wear and tear.”
Team news
“We’ve had a light training session and we’re looking ok. A couple of doubts for tomorrow, Edinson trained which is good. Let’s hope there’s no reaction and hopefully he’ll travel with the squad.”
More reaction to Chelsea penalty row
“That’s water under the bridge. You move onto the next one. We all know it’s a high pressure situation and you have to accept the situations.
“We move on. All my focus after the game has been on Palace.”
Solskjaer on referee pressure
“I think the refs have a difficult enough job without extra pressure, so we should leave them do make as many good decisions as they can.”
Pogba and Jones updates
“With Phil, he’s working really hard, he’s had a couple of setbacks and it’s the kind of injury where you have to be patient.
“I know all about knee injuries, so I’m not sure... how long is a piece of rope? We’ll give him as much time as we can.
“Paul is not ready for us, no. Feeling better but he has not been training with the team yet, so he’s definitely not travelling down to London.”
Solskjaer on Wan-Bissaka, Shaw and England
“I don’t want to do Gareth’s job but I feel both my full-backs have done really well. The improvement has been there to see.
Gareth has got good options there if he wants them, but I’m not going to say whether he should or shouldn’t [pick them].”
Title challengers or not?
“The pressure has not been there at all, that’s the Premier League.
“We enjoy being as close to the top as possible, but that’s the quality of the opposition, the tactics and the standards the season demands.
“It’s the strangest year of all for everyone.”
'Impressed with my players'
“I don’t think anyone has surprised me as we know what they’re capable.
“Impressed with the way they’ve handled the season, the situation with the pandemic and not being able to have socialising with their friends.
“It’s relentless, Thursday, Sunday, Saturday. This year has been the strangest of all our lives. We didn’t live in the Second World War thankfully but these restrictions have been nearly as harsh.
“This squad has been brilliant.”
On 14th April 2019, Liverpool face Chelsea at Anfield, whilst City go to Palace on the same day, just like in 2014, with the two teams facing off to determine the Premier League winner.
