Crystal Palace 0:0 Manchester United

Lucky McLuckerson · Feb 28, 2021

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Date - Wednesday, March 03 2021
Kickoff Time - 2015 Hrs GMT
Venue - Selhurst Park, London

League standings and form guide

2. Manchester United: WDDWD
13. Crystal Palace: WLLWD

Previous Meetings

Manchester United 1—3 Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace 0—2 Manchester United

Manchester United 1—2 Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace 1—3 Manchester United

Manchester United 0—0 Crystal Palace

All-Time League Record

Manchester United wins: 30
Crystal Palace wins: 8
Draws: 9

Pre-Match Pressers

Ole Gunnar Solskjær

Roy Hodgson

Team News

Manchester United

Juan Mata, Phil Jones and Paul Pogba ruled out.

Crystal Palace

Mamadou Sakho, Jeffrey Schlupp, Connor Wickham, James Tomkins, James McArthur, Nathan Ferguson and Wayne Hennessey ruled out. Wilfried Zaha and Nathaniel Clyne doubtful.

Know the opposition

Crystal Palace Football Club (nicknamed CPFC, The Glaziers and The Eagles) are a professional football club based in South Norwood, London. Crystal Palace were founded in 1905 at the site of the famous Crystal Palace Exhibition building by the owners of the FA Cup Final stadium, who wanted their own team to play at the historic venue. When Crystal Palace were founded, they turned to one of the biggest clubs in the country at the time, Aston Villa, to seek advice. Villa helped the club in a number of ways, not least by donating their kit. As a result, Palace's colors were originally claret and blue shirts paired with white shorts, socks tending to be claret. They kept to this formula fairly consistently until 1938.

The club initially played their home games at the FA Cup Final stadium which was situated inside the grounds of The Crystal Palace, but the First World War saw them forced to move out, and they enjoyed a number of seasons at both the Herne Hill Velodrome and The Nest. Although Crystal Palace have never won a major trophy, they have played in the First Division for the majority of their existence, finishing 3rd once, and losing the 1990 FA Cup Final to Manchester United. Crystal Palace play their homes games at Selhurst Park, and share sporting rivalries with South London neighbors Milwall, former tenants Charlton, and Brighton & Hove Albion.

Familiar Faces

Wilfried Zaha (2013-15)

Referee

Andre Marriner.

TMDaines · Feb 28, 2021

Should be a comfortable win. Anything else and you suspect we may really be in trouble for top 4. The league form is crumbling a bit and we have played most of the other fodder.

charlenefan · Feb 28, 2021

Fingers crossed Cavani is back

Irrational. · Feb 28, 2021

We will play into Palace's hands, who have become a bit of a bogey team for us.

Woy's team will be defensively compact, and punish us on the counter.

King Eric 7 · Feb 28, 2021

Palace are absolute dog shit at the moment. Can't see where their next win will come from. It would be just like us to gift them some points, but we should really be winning this one.

Samid · Feb 28, 2021

Referee: Andre Marriner. Assistants: Scott Ledger, Marc Perry. Fourth official: Kevin Friend. VAR: Mike Dean. Assistant VAR: Stephen Child.

We're fecked

always_hoping · Feb 28, 2021

TMDaines said:
Should be a comfortable win. Anything else and you suspect we may really be in trouble for top 4. The league form is crumbling a bit and we have played most of the other fodder.

This group of United players rarely do comfortable wins. A win for United would somewhat make up for the 3-1 Old Trafford loss against them this season.

Hopefully Cavani is fit to return.

always_hoping · Feb 28, 2021

King Eric 7 said:
Palace are absolute dog shit at the moment. Can't see where their next win will come from. It would be just like us to gift them some points, but we should really be winning this one.

They beat Brighton last Monday and drew with a clean sheet today.

Offsideagain · Feb 28, 2021

Palace away is never easy. If they get any encouragement, they will be a handful. As usual, we need an early score to open the game up and then pass them to sleep.

48 hours · Feb 28, 2021

90 mins of us slowly passing side to side whilst Palace sit 11 men behind the ball, hoping to break and score from a set piece.

King Eric 7 · Feb 28, 2021

always_hoping said:
They beat Brighton last Monday and drew with a clean sheet today.

True, but I think they were outplayed both times and got somewhat lucky.

Devil may care · Feb 28, 2021

Don't think McTominay looked fully fit so Matic might come in for this and Bailly should be rotated in, beyond that I think it'll be same as today.

kidbob · Feb 28, 2021

A must 3 points here. If we can win this and somehow grab a draw against City then overall it won't have been a bad 3 game run including the draw today.

For me I want Bailly in the side otherwise stay the same with maybe Matic or VDB in. Martial I'm not sure on as James is in good form but getting Martial back in form has a much greater upside.

bosnian_red · Feb 28, 2021

Hopefully Cavani is back. If not, same lineup as today I guess. Our problem is we don't have enough creativity throughout the midfield and attack. We need right wing creativity, and we need Pogba back to provide deeper creativity. Hope Bruno and Rashford are back to their best.

slored1 · Feb 28, 2021

De Gea
AWB-Bailly-Maguire-Shaw
Fred-Matic
James-Bruno-Rashford
Greenwood.

0-2 United

Bertie Wooster · Feb 28, 2021

Hugely important that we win this game - so absolutely no resting players for the City match. This is bigger in my view, as it's much more winnable. 4 points from the Chelsea and Palace game would be great - with anything picked up in the City game just a complete bonus.

Hopefully Cavani will be back. If not, I can't see many changes - maybe Bailly will get a game before Lindelof returns for the City match? Maybe, if Cavani isn't back, then Martial in for James? But that means no striker on the bench.

So a few minor decisions to make, but just tweaks. Fundamentally: take the game very serious, and prioritise getting a win here rather than worrying in any way about the City match.

Irwin99 · Feb 28, 2021

I don't think Zaha is back for them so that's a big plus if true. There shouldn't be much to fear here especially if United score first and should be an easy enough win.

Expect Matic and Bailly will come in as McTominay and Lindelof will be rested for the City game.

MyOnlySolskjaer · Mar 1, 2021

Pogba's back in training but maybe too early for him to return.

Red00012 · Mar 1, 2021

Devil may care said:
Don't think McTominay looked fully fit so Matic might come in for this and Bailly should be rotated in, beyond that I think it'll be same as today.

Surely VDB instead of Matic

Shane88 · Mar 1, 2021

Win here and Chelsea/Liverpool draw and top 4 is looking pretty good.

Prediction: Palace 2-1 United.

horsechoker · Mar 1, 2021

I'd play an experimental 2-3-4-1.

Raredaredevil · Mar 1, 2021

Would be so typical of us to lose/draw this game and then beat City next.

Feed Me · Mar 1, 2021

Irrational. said:
We will play into Palace's hands, who have become a bit of a bogey team for us.

Woy's team will be defensively compact, and punish us on the counter.

Our problems against them have been at OT. We tend to wipe the floor with them at Selhurst Park.

Gordon S · Mar 1, 2021

King Eric 7 said:
True, but I think they were outplayed both times and got somewhat lucky.

That is an understatement. Brighton had 75% possession and 25 shots compared to 3 shots for Crystal Palace.

ColvaleGoa · Mar 1, 2021

Guess we will be playing Prime Barcelona than.

Mike Smalling · Mar 1, 2021

Any chance to see Pogba or Cavani? If the latter isn't fit, I hope Ole goes with Greenwood on top. He did well yesterday, and Martial's attempts at hold-up play is terrible to watch.

Hughes35 · Mar 1, 2021

With our form, fixtures and league position. This is an absolute must win !

---------------------------De Gea-------------------------
AWB-------------Bailly---------Maguire-----------Shaw
-----------------------Fred----------Matic-------------------
James------------------Fernandes-----------------Rashford
-----------------------------Greenwood----------------------------

If Cavani is fit then he comes in for James.

Should be enough for a win. We really do need a CF / RW.

pablo__p · Mar 1, 2021

horsechoker said:
I'd play an experimental 2-3-4-1.

Been saying this for ages. We have two top goalkeepers and should take advantage of this.

charlenefan · Mar 1, 2021

On paper this is always an absolute turd of a game, we do normally win on this ground though (that's me jinxing it now)

Inigo Montoya · Mar 1, 2021

always_hoping said:
They beat Brighton last Monday and drew with a clean sheet today.

Fecking lucky both times.Brighton and Fulham just don't have goalscorers

Inigo Montoya · Mar 1, 2021

Mike Smalling said:
Any chance to see Pogba or Cavani? If the latter isn't fit, I hope Ole goes with Greenwood on top. He did well yesterday, and Martial's attempts at hold-up play is terrible to watch.

Pogba, no chance until mid March.Cavani? No idea
PS none of our lads are CFs who can hold the ball with their backs to goal

Devil may care · Mar 1, 2021

Red00012 said:
Surely VDB instead of Matic

I'd be shocked if Donny got a start.

Matt851 · Mar 1, 2021

Devil may care said:
I'd be shocked if Donny got a start.

Me too however we are desperate for creativity so he really should

AgentSmith · Mar 1, 2021

Henderson
AWB Bailly Maguire Shaw
McTominay Matic
Greenwood Bruno Rashford
Cavani

Stevondo8 · Mar 1, 2021

Not the game for James, they’ll sit deep and compact.

DDG
AWB Bailly Maguire Shaw
Fred Matic
Greenwood Bruno Rashford
Cavani

If no Cavani, Greenwood up top and start Amad. Expect James back in for City.

RashyForPM · Mar 1, 2021

Massive shame Mata is out for this. I love James but we cannot play him this game. He’s fantastic when we have to counter, which is why I’d start him against City, but diabolical against a low-block. Preferably:

Henderson
AWB Bailly Maguire Shaw
McT Fred
Greenwood Bruno Rashford
Cavani

If Cavani isn’t fit for this one, which unfortunately seems likely at this moment, then overload the middle to create as many chances as possible with this team:

Henderson
AWB Bailly Maguire Shaw
Fred
McT VdB
Bruno
Mason Rashford

0-2 win for us either way.

Inigo Montoya · Mar 1, 2021

RashyForPM said:
Massive shame Mata is out for this. I love James but we cannot play him this game. He’s fantastic when we have to counter, which is why I’d start him against City, but diabolical against a low-block. Preferably:

Henderson
AWB Bailly Maguire Shaw
McT Fred
Greenwood Bruno Rashford
Cavani

If Cavani isn’t fit for this one, which unfortunately seems likely at this moment, then overload the middle to create as many chances as possible with this team:

Henderson
AWB Bailly Maguire Shaw
Fred
McT VdB
Bruno
Mason Rashford

0-2 win for us either way.

It's been a long while since I've heard anyone say that Mata being out is a massive shame.

RashyForPM · Mar 1, 2021

Inigo Montoya said:
It's been a long while since I've heard anyone say that Mata being out is a massive shame.

Rate him very highly. Not a great athlete but still an excellent midfielder.

Gator Nate · Mar 1, 2021

DDG
Williams - Bailly - Maguire - Telles
Matic
Van de Beek - Fred
Bruno
Cavani - Martial

I'd like to see that for 45 minutes then adjust accordingly. Never gonna happen.

lysglimt · Mar 1, 2021

always_hoping said:
They beat Brighton last Monday and drew with a clean sheet today.

After being outplayed by Fulham for most of the game. Oh and Zaha isn't playing - so that sort of eliminates the counter-threat

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