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Paul Merson believes Newcastle United will come away from Selhurst Park with some extent, predicting at the moment’s 3pm kick-off at Crystal Palace to finish 2-2.
The Sky Sports activities pundit admits he was shocked to see us lose 2-0 at dwelling to West Ham on Monday, feeling it was a “actually dangerous loss” and recreation he anticipated us to “win simply” towards a Hammers aspect who arrived in terrible type.
As for Palace, Merson highlights their lack of targets – solely Southampton have scored much less and the Eagles have managed simply three targets in six dwelling video games up to now – however he was impressed by their tempo and risk on the counter in final weekend’s 2-2 draw at Aston Villa.
Talking to Sportskeeda, Merson stated: “Once you discuss outcomes from final weekend, the one which I didn’t see coming was Newcastle shedding to West Ham.
“I used to be anticipating them to show up and win simply. That could be a actually dangerous loss for Newcastle in my view. It baffles me how they ended up shedding to that West Ham staff!
“They now face Crystal Palace, who I believed had been actually good away from dwelling towards Aston Villa final outing. They regarded like a severe risk on the counter and used tempo to their benefit. You would say Palace rode their luck at occasions in that recreation, however so did Villa.
“Palace are nineteenth for the time being and can now face an uphill battle to keep away from relegation. Southampton are the one staff with fewer targets than them this season, in order that’s an space the place they need to enhance in the event that they need to survive on this division.
“I can positively see Newcastle scoring on this recreation, however I’ve a sense Palace can match them.”
Merson’s prediction: Crystal Palace 2-2 Newcastle United
Hopefully we will construct on our final away recreation – a 3-1 win at Nottingham Forest a number of weeks in the past – and reply to Monday’s setback towards a struggling Palace aspect starved of targets.
