Crystal Palace vs Everton - prediction, team news, lineups

Crystal Palace already person 1 oculus firmly fixed connected Leipzig, but they cannot spend to instrumentality the different oculus disconnected the shot successful the Premier League arsenic they hole to big Everton astatine Selhurst Park connected Sunday.

The Eagles are inactive astatine a flimsy hazard of dropping down to the 2nd tier, portion their visitors are not retired of the European pursuit conscionable yet.

Match preview

Winning the FA Cup past play was the zenith of Crystal Palace's existence, but the superior outfit could remarkably deed adjacent higher heights a small implicit 12 months aboriginal by conquering the continent - successful the tertiary sense.

Simply needing to debar a calamitous illness successful the 2nd limb of their Conference League quarter-final with Shakhtar Donetsk - having prevailed 3-1 distant from location 2 Thursdays agone - Oliver Glasner's men strode into the last with a 2-1 triumph connected the nighttime and 5-2 aggregate occurrence overall.

La Liga broadside Rayo Vallecano present basal successful Palace's mode of a first-ever European trophy, which has been the hosts' precedence for a fig of weeks now, but Glasner's men person a spot of enactment inactive to bash to beryllium perfectly definite of their top-tier status.

Back-to-back defeats to Bournemouth and Liverpool person near the hosts 15th successful the Premier League table, 7 points supra the driblet portion with 3 games remaining, truthful triumph connected Sunday would warrant their safety.

Despite a downturn successful attacking fortunes - ranking 19th successful the Premier League for shots and shots connected people since Glasner's departure was announced connected January 16 - Palace person go an highly pugnacious seed to ace astatine home, going unbeaten successful 8 astatine Selhurst Park and conceding conscionable doubly successful that time.

Everton shipped much successful 90 minutes against Manchester City than Crystal Palace person done successful their past 720 minutes of location football, and the Citizens 3rd extremity successful Monday's 3-3 spectacular proved particularly devastating for David Moyes and co.

Jeremy Doku started and ended the scoring with sumptuous curlers from extracurricular the area, but either broadside of the Belgian's strikes, Everton raced into a 3-1 pb against the self-destructive Sky Blues, doing their utmost to connection a helping manus to erstwhile occurrence Mikel Arteta.

A constituent against Pep Guardiola's broadside is inactive a highly respectable result, but it is besides 1 that extended the Toffees' winless Premier League tally to 4 matches and near them 4 points disconnected the apical six.

Also suffering precocious heartache against Merseyside rivals Liverpool and West Ham United, Everton person shipped a result-altering extremity successful the 90th infinitesimal oregon aboriginal successful each of their past 3 games, the archetypal squad to bash truthful successful Premier League history.

Moyes's men person besides present conceded astatine slightest 2 goals successful six of their past 8 top-flight contests - including each of their past 4 distant from location - but they person won each of their past 3 games against Palace by a 2-1 scoreline.

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Team News

After sitting retired the thriller with Man City owed to a flimsy knock, Everton seasoned Idrissa Gueye is yet to resume grooming and volition ostensibly beryllium missing for Sunday's crippled too.

Jack Grealish would ordinarily beryllium capable to instrumentality from ineligibility this weekend, but the Manchester City loanee is inactive recovering from his superior ft injury, portion Jarrad Branthwaite (hamstring) remains retired too.

Bagging a brace disconnected the seat connected Monday - albeit acknowledgment to immoderate catastrophic City defending - Thierno Barry is successful the framework to regenerate Beto up top, successful what whitethorn beryllium the visitors' sole alteration.

As for the Conference League finalists, Glasner has confirmed nary caller issues from Thursday's historical success, though helium name-checked a fewer players who are apt to marque mode this weekend.

Adam Wharton, Tyrick Mitchell, Jean-Philippe Mateta, Yeremy Pino and Ismaila Sarr could beryllium successful enactment for rests, though Borna Sosa's occupation complicates matters for Glasner if helium wishes to demote Mitchell.

Eddie Nketiah (thigh), Evann Guessand (knee) and Cheick Doucoure stay connected the sidelines for the Eagles.

Crystal Palace imaginable starting lineup:

Henderson; Canvot, Richards, Riad; Munoz, Lerma, Hughes, Cardines; Johnson, Devenny; Strand Larsen

Everton imaginable starting lineup:

Pickford; O'Brien, Keane, Tarkowski, Mykolenko; Garner, Iroegbunam; Rohl, Dewsbury-Hall, Ndiaye; Barry

We say: Crystal Palace 1-2 Everton

Everton's propensity to concede goals means that the Toffees should not travel retired of Sunday's crippled unscathed, but the visitors tin capitalise connected Palace's midweek fatigue and expected rotation.

The hosts' attacking numbers successful the league implicit the past 4 months besides marque for grim reading, truthful Moyes's men person our backing to instrumentality to winning ways and support their European hopes alive.

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