Crystal Palace vs Newcastle United Preview 21/01/2023

Crystal Palace vs Newcastle United – 21/01/2023

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Though Newcastle shall be happy on the dropped factors from Manchester United on Wednesday – which was mockingly in opposition to Palace – the draw at Selhurst Park that day did put Erik ten Hag’s males above them within the desk by one level.

Nevertheless, the sport in hand has now gone for United and that sole level is just the distinction. On the similar time, Eddie Howe’s males are sitting with a five-point hole on Tottenham Hotspur in fifth as they search a return to the Champions League for the primary time since 2003.

Newcastle managed to edge previous Fulham final outing within the league after taking a two-week break from Premier League motion.

Alexander Isak netted a purpose within the 89th minute that day to safe all three factors for Howe’s facet after former participant, Alexsander Mitrovic, had his transformed penalty dominated out for touching the ball with each toes.

It places the St. James’ Park facet went on a two-game profitable run after beating Leicester Metropolis within the EFL Cup quarter-finals 2-0, with the membership beforehand drawing in opposition to Arsenal on the Emirates and dropping to Sheffield Wednesday within the FA Cup throughout January.

The Magpies stay one of the best defensive facet within the league up to now with solely 11 objectives let in from 19 video games, simply as they’ve misplaced the fewest video games within the Premier League too with only one.

As for Palace, they seemed like dropping all three factors in midweek to Manchester United after a primary half purpose from Bruno Fernandes.

The Eagles rallied arduous within the second half and had been rewarded with a degree after Michael Olise scored probably the greatest free kicks in Premier League historical past.

Palace are actually in twelfth nonetheless and sit solely 5 factors behind ninth-placed Liverpool and ninth-placed Chelsea, and as these two meet one another this weekend, it is going to favour Palace enormously.

Patrick Vieira’s males did lose to Chelsea final weekend, nevertheless, whereas dropping to Spurs every week previous to make it an unbeaten begin to life in 2023 for his facet.

Forebet predicts a victory right here for Newcastle as soon as once more and for the sport to see underneath 2.5 objectives.