In my first pre-season notes on Palace I wrote..........

 

 

 

They kept Eze and Guehi, but the latter was only because they held out for top dollar and sold his CB partner Joachim Andersen to Fulham instead. That was a direct rival and feels like odd business. The Danish international was ever present last season, he missed six winless games in 22/23 and Palace won just one of the six he sat out in 21/22, so one win in 20 EPL games without him in the line up across the last three and a bit campaigns! They are currently scoring 0.625 goals pg, so the drop off without Olise hasn't been addressed , or the inability to win without Andersen and that feels like a bad combination. Head coach Oliver Glasner is another on borrowed time and his inability or refusal to switch from his beloved 3-4-2-1 when he doesn't have the players for the formation has angered supporters and Graham Potter is watching the situation closely and keeping his phone fully charged! Although goodness knows what supporters would say if the former Brighton (their biggest rival) boss were appointed.

 

The Eagles do not concede a lot of goals, but Tottenham have scored six in winning on their last two visits to Selhurst Park ( all six coming after the break) and have scored 2+ goals in their last 7 starts at an average of 2.71 per game and were unplayable for three halves in their last two away starts, both of them at Old Trafford and the first at the AmEx. They scored five and created 10 BC's across those 135+ minutes and can be devastating on the counter with so much pace in the team and offensive options. Spurs have averaged 1.87 goals per EPL road game under Ange Postecoglu and can win this and possibly with a degree of comfort.

 

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Good luck!