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The opening Premier League match of the weekend sees Manchester City travel to Crystal Palace for the lunchtime kick-off.
We’re in the middle of an exciting title race as any team from Man City, Liverpool and Arsenal could end up being crowned champions, with just a few points separating the trio at the top of the table.
Palace are in 14th, eight points clear of the relegation zone, but they need a couple more victories to ensure their status in the Premier League for next season.
Current Form
Crystal Palace’s current form
Palace have just one victory to their name from their last eight games and have won just twice in 2024.
Last time out, they suffered a 1-0 defeat away at Bournemouth.
Finding the back of the net has been a real problem for them recently as they’ve scored just three goals in their last four.
Man City’s current form
City will have been disappointed at only managing a draw at home to Arsenal last weekend, but they turned up their performance level during the week to beat Aston Villa 4-1, with Phil Foden scoring a fantastic hat-trick.
They’ve won eight of their last 11 in the league.
Team News
Palace are hopeful that Michael Olise will make a return soon as he hasn’t played for a month, but the City game might come too quickly.
Cheick Doucoure, Matheus Franca, Marc Guehi, Rob Holding, Sam Johnstone and Jesurun Rak-Sakyi are all injured.
As for City, they still have a few influential names out with injury including John Stones, Ederson, Nathan Ake and Kyle Walker.
Stones is the most likely out of that group to return for this one, but City will be careful with his hamstring issue.
Scoreline Prediction
Pep Guardiola rested Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland for the midweek win against Villa which proved that even City’s supposed fringe players have too much for the majority of teams in the league.
City will have one eye on Real Madrid during the week, though, so this will be a routine win. Points claimed and back home.
Crystal Palace 0-2 Man City
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Author : [email protected] (Martin Macdonald)
Publish date : 2024-04-04 13:08:51
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