Leeds United vs Crystal Palace - prediction, team news, lineups

Seeking to sphere their unbeaten commencement to the caller Premier League season, in-form Leeds United invited Crystal Palace to Elland Road connected Sunday afternoon.

The Whites won 4-1 successful this location fixture past season, but the spoils were shared successful a goalless stalemate successful their astir caller conflict astatine Selhurst Park successful March.

Match preview

At the clip of writing, lone champions Arsenal and Manchester City (12 each) person accumulated much Premier League points than Leeds (eight) aft 4 games this season, with Daniel Farke’s broadside making a positive, unbeaten commencement successful the apical tier.

The Whites rapidly bounded backmost from their chaotic 6-3 decision astatine Chelsea successful the EFL Cup and produced a superb show successful a broad 4-1 league triumph astatine location to Newcastle connected Monday, helping them ascent up to third successful the table.

No English subordinate has scored much Premier League goals successful 2026 than Dominic Calvert-Lewin (17), who netted his 3rd of the run against Newcastle but had different taken distant from him by Jayden Bogle. The striker has since been rewarded with a instrumentality to Thomas Tuchel’s England squad up of the two-week planetary break.

Leeds person lone been beaten erstwhile crossed their past 13 league matches (W6 D6), but Farke has encouraged his players to execute ‘at the apical of their game’ if they privation to prime up maximum points successful a “very hard game” against Crystal Palace.

The Whites person lone won lone of their past 5 encounters against Crystal Palace (D2 L2), but they person prevailed successful 7 of their past 8 location league meetings with the Eagles, scoring 16 goals successful the process.

Crystal Palace person picked up conscionable 3 Premier League points from a imaginable 12 disposable truthful acold this season, with their solitary triumph implicit Fulham taking spot betwixt defeats to Everton, Manchester City and Ipswich Town.

The Eagles suffered a gut-wrenching 3-2 nonaccomplishment to Ipswich astatine Selhurst Park past weekend, initially warring backmost with 10 men to reconstruct parity, lone for Zian Flemming to people a 90th-minute victor for the visitors.

However, Pierre Sage’s broadside responded with a comfy 4-0 location triumph against Lech Poznan successful their opening Europa League fixture, and the Frenchman has present called for consistency from his broadside going guardant aft producing a much-improved show with a cleanable sheet.

Defensive frailties successful the Premier League person proved costly astatine this aboriginal signifier for Palace, who person conceded the astir goals (11), faced the joint-most shots connected people (26) and person allowed their opponents the astir touches successful their ain punishment country (164) successful the division.

The Eagles person besides conceded astatine slightest 2 goals successful each of their past 10 top-flight matches and volition endeavour to assertion their archetypal cleanable expanse successful the league since April 20 erstwhile they look Leeds, who person recovered the nett successful each of their past 5 matches astatine Elland Road (12 goals successful total).

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Team News

Leeds brag Farke has confirmed that Harry Wilson is sidelined with a quad injury, portion some Joe Rodon (hamstring) and Mateo Joseph (knee) stay successful the attraction room.

An unchanged starting lineup could beryllium selected by Farke, with James Justin, Nico Elvedi and Tarik Muharemovic, acceptable to proceed astatine centre-back arsenic in-form Bogle and Gabriel Gudmundsson run arsenic wing-backs.

Calvert-Lewin has scored successful each of his past 5 Premier League location games and helium is acceptable to beryllium joined successful onslaught by Noah Okafor, portion skipper Ethan Ampadu, Anton Stach and Ao Tanaka could each commencement successful midfield.

As for Crystal Palace, Axel Disasi volition statesman serving a three-match suspended pursuing his reddish paper against Ipswich, portion Dean Henderson (ankle), Jean-Philippe Mateta (hamstring) and Chadi Riad (knee) each stay retired injured.

In Disasi’s absence, Sage volition measurement up whether to manus Takehiro Tomiyasu oregon Jaydee Canvot a commencement successful the backmost 3 alongside Chris Richards and Honest Ahanor, portion the likes of Eddie Nketiah, Dwight McNeil and Oscar Mingueza volition each beryllium pushing to instrumentality to the archetypal XI.

Ismaila Sarr made his archetypal quality of the play arsenic a substitute successful midweek and Sage has said that the Liverpool-linked guardant is “maybe” acceptable to start, but not acceptable capable to past 90 minutes.

Jorgen Strand Larsen, who has scored 4 goals successful his past 3 appearances, is expected to pb the enactment and could beryllium joined successful onslaught by Yeremy Pino and either Nketiah oregon Daichi Kamada, if Sarr is not selected to start.

Leeds United imaginable starting lineup:

Trafford; Justin, Elvedi, Muharemovic; Bogle, Stach, Ampadu, Tanaka, Gudmundsson; Calvert-Lewin, Okafor

Crystal Palace imaginable starting lineup:

Henderson; Tomiyasu, Richards, Ahanor; Khalaili, Timber, Wharton, Mitchell; Sarr, Pino; Strand Larsen

We say: Leeds United 3-1 Crystal Palace

Although Crystal Palace picked up a morale-boosting European triumph successful midweek, their antiaircraft vulnerability successful the Premier League remains a concern, and they tin ill-afford to marque costly errors against a red-hot Leeds outfit.

The Whites person looked exceptionally beardown and almighty astatine the aboriginal signifier of this season, and successful beforehand of a pumped-up Elland Road crowd, they should person much than capable prime to outscore the Eagles en way to different resounding victory.

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