Brentford vs Crystal Palace - prediction, team news, lineups

Brentford's precocious propulsion for the Champions League continues connected Sunday, erstwhile they invited Crystal Palace to the Gtech Community Stadium successful their penultimate Premier League crippled of the season.

Eighth-placed Brentford person 51 points, and they volition request Brighton & Hove Albion and Bournemouth to driblet points successful bid to unafraid Champions League football, portion 15th-placed Palace person 55 points and tin beryllium forgiven for focusing connected their upcoming Conference League final.

Match preview

The chances of Brentford playing successful the Champions League are slim, arsenic they would not lone request to flooded the 4 point-gap to sixth-placed Bournemouth, but they would besides need Aston Villa to decorativeness fifth and triumph the Europa League.

Keith Andrews's broadside are lone 2 points from seventh-placed Brighton, who inhabit the Conference League spot, truthful European shot should not beryllium ruled out, though conscionable 3 points abstracted them from 12th-placed Sunderland.

The caput manager has arguably performed amended than immoderate manager successful the Premier League this play considering galore expected the nine to spell down aft losing brag Thomas Frank successful the summer, arsenic good arsenic stars Bryan Mbeumo, Yoane Wissa and Christian Norgaard.

Brentford person stumbled of precocious fixed they person drawn five, mislaid 2 and won conscionable 1 of their past 8 successful the apical flight, and a nonaccomplishment connected the play would beryllium their 3rd successful 4 games.

In that eight-match stretch, the hosts failed to find the backmost of the nett connected 4 occasions, though they besides managed to support 4 cleanable sheets.

Brentford's displays astatine the Gtech person not been peculiarly breathtaking considering they person triumphed conscionable erstwhile successful their past 7 Premier League fixtures astatine the stadium, but they are astatine slightest unbeaten successful 4 games astatine home, with the nine winning 3-0 against West Ham United connected May 2.

Crystal Palace are astatine nary hazard of demotion arsenic their points tally of 44 is 8 much than 18th-placed West Ham United, though their endurance has much to bash with the information the teams astir them person consistently dropped points.

The Eagles are successful information winless successful 5 Premier League contests, with their 3-0 decision against Manchester City connected Wednesday their 3rd nonaccomplishment successful that period.

It was besides the 3rd clip successful 4 league games that they conceded astatine slightest 3 goals, and they failed to find the backmost of the nett successful 3 of their past 5 successful the apical flight.

Oliver Glasner's broadside managed to get the amended of Brentford erstwhile they faced each different astatine Selhurst Park successful November 2025, winning 2-0 acknowledgment to a Jean-Philippe Mateta onslaught and an ain extremity from Nathan Collins.

Palace's grounds connected the roadworthy has been mediocre considering they person suffered defeats successful each of their 3 astir caller distant trips successful the Premier League.

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Team News

Brentford's squad is mostly available, which means forwards Igor Thiago, Kevin Schade and Dango Ouattara should each beryllium acceptable to start.

Mikkel Damsgaard is apt to beryllium trusted arsenic a fig 10, particularly arsenic Fabio Carvalho is inactive absent, and the Danish planetary whitethorn beryllium positioned up of midfielders Yehor Yarmoliuk and Mathias Jensen.

Nathan Collins has been awesome astatine the backmost this season, and Sepp van den Berg is the astir apt campaigner to spouse him successful the mediate of a backmost four.

Though Glasner volition person 2 eyes connected Palace's Conference League last connected May 27, it could beryllium sensible to springiness his starters minutes connected Sunday successful bid to support their fitness.

That could mean that the likes of Adam Wharton and Daichi Kamada are acceptable to look successful the mediate of the pitch, portion Maxence Lacroix whitethorn beryllium afforded a commencement successful the backline.

Jean-Philippe Mateta volition beryllium searching for his 12th Premier League extremity of the season, though his interaction successful the last 3rd volition beryllium connected the work helium gets from forwards Ismaila Sarr and Yeremy Pino.

Brentford imaginable starting lineup:

Kelleher; Kayode, Van den Berg, Collins, Lewis-Potter; Yarmoliuk, Jensen; Ouattara, Damsgaard, Schade; Thiago

Crystal Palace imaginable starting lineup:

Henderson; Richards, Lacroix, Canvot; Munoz, Wharton, Kamada, Mitchell; Sarr, Mateta, Pino

We say: Brentford 2-1 Crystal Palace

Brentford person overmuch much to suffer connected Sunday than the visitors, and portion they person struggled for form, their opponents person not been astatine their champion domestically.

Crystal Palace are besides apt to marque respective cardinal changes during the match, and determination absorption connected Europe could let Brentford to instrumentality advantage.

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