Palace face four games in eight days!

[1964white]

Crystal Palace are set to play four matches in eight days because of a fixture pile-up caused by reaching the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup.

Palace host Manchester City in the Premier League on 14 December, play KuPS at home in the Conference League on 18 December, will most likely play the EFL Cup tie on 16 December.

And travel to Leeds in the Premier League on 21 December.

[Pullhard]

Crystal Palace are set to play four matches in eight days because of a fixture pile-up caused by reaching the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup.

Palace host Manchester City in the Premier League on 14 December, play KuPS at home in the Conference League on 18 December, will most likely play the EFL Cup tie on 16 December.

And travel to Leeds in the Premier League on 21 December.

Gotta like that

[1964white]

Hopefully, Palace will prioritise their cup games.

[Finnatic]

Hope they come unstuck against us, but I like watching them lately.
They are a throwback to pre PL, when a club didn’t have to break the bank and a manager could build a team which everyone connected buys into.
They are going toe to toe with the big six and causing them problems.

I know Leicester did a similar thing but that was a perfect storm, imo, the top teams cancelled each other out that season and also underestimated Leicester who played a survival counter-attacking game which kept on going (you shouldn’t win the league with 30-40% possession, but I’m glad they did).

[1964white]

We have to advantage of Palace's unfortunate consequences.

[GreennWhite]

Palace are a very good side and even with that run of fixtures it will be hard to get anything from that game. I can see them taking a chance and resting players ( at least not playing full games ) for the cup games but playing their strongest teams in the league games, so they wont be effected that much.

[CUSSIE01]

For teams like Crystal Palace it’s harder to rest players for cup games but especially when it comes to quarter finals when fans can start dreaming of a trip to Wembley. They’re a better team than us so we need any advantage we can get.

[CheltSteve]

Might they also have players missing due to the African Cup of Nations when they play us??

[Chilli D]

They will definitely rest most if not all of their strongest 11 for the Conference League game.

[1964white]

Might they also have players missing due to the African Cup of Nations when they play us??

That's a good point, Steve. the African Cup of Nations first match is on the 21st December.

[Jimstorrie]

The older ones amongst us will recall 1970

[Finnatic]

The older ones amongst us will recall 1970

Didn’t we play something like ten games in the final thirty three days of the season and that’s with one sub available?

[Jimstorrie]

Didn’t we play something like ten games in the final thirty three days of the season and that’s with one sub available?

https://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statisti ... nited.html

March and April madness.
I will forever hate Alan Hardaker

[1964white]

Manager Oliver Glasner says Crystal Palace have asked the Premier League to rearrange their meeting with Leeds on 21 December to avoid playing twice in three days.

"We are trying the same thing that Arsenal are trying, to move our Leeds game [currently scheduled for Sunday 21 December] forward to Saturday [20 December], so we don't have two days between these games," said Glasner.

"We didn't get a response until now from the Premier League, just to have the same as Arsenal, if their game is moved."

[1964white]

These namby-pamby Premier League clubs can take a run & jump, imo!

[Cjay]

[The Subhuman]

Ahh the 4 Yorkshire footballers sketch

"When we were playing we had to play Arsenal in London in the morning and be back in Leeds to play Liverpool in the afternoon!

"That's nothing. We had to play Arsenal and Liverpool and work 8 hours on t'farm"

"We used to dream of only playing Liverpool and Arsenal and only 8 hours in the fields"

"Huh, softies, we had to walk to London to play Arsenal, then walk back to put in 10 hours in the fields before playing Liverpool... "

[Finnatic]

https://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statisti ... nited.html

March and April madness.
I will forever hate Alan Hardaker

Even worse than I thought, ten in thirty one (21st March to 21st April, virtually a game every three days)

[1964white]

Even worse than I thought, ten in thirty one (21st March to 21st April, virtually a game every three days)

There is no way they would have offered Leeds any leniency.

[whiteswan]

Hopefully the Leeds chief of police will say....sorry mate, the rotas are all done and dusted for that day. No way can we just change it to suite some London outfit who think they are bigger than us....