[Lucky McLuckerson]

....................VS.....................

Date: Sunday, February 02 2025
Kickoff Time: 1400 Hrs GMT
Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester

League Standings And Form Guide

12. Manchester United: LDWLW
13. Crystal Palace: WDWWL


Previous League Meetings

Crystal Palace 0—0 Manchester United

Crystal Palace 4—0 Manchester United

Manchester United 0—1 Crystal Palace

Manchester United 2—1 Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace 1—1 Manchester United


All-Time League Record

Manchester United wins: 32
Crystal Palace wins: 11
Draws: 12


Pre-Match Pressers

Rúben Amorim




Oliver Glasner





Team News

Manchester United

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Crystal Palace

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Know The Opposition

Crystal Palace Football Club (nicknamed CPFC, The Glaziers and The Eagles) are a professional football club based in South Norwood, London. Crystal Palace were founded in 1905 at the site of the famous Crystal Palace Exhibition building by the owners of the FA Cup Final stadium, who wanted their own team to play at the historic venue. When Crystal Palace were founded, they turned to one of the biggest clubs in the country at the time, Aston Villa, to seek advice. Villa helped the club in a number of ways, not least by donating their kit. As a result, Palace's colors were originally claret and blue shirts paired with white shorts, socks tending to be claret. They kept to this formula fairly consistently until 1938.

The club initially played their home games at the FA Cup Final stadium which was situated inside the grounds of The Crystal Palace, but the First World War saw them forced to move out, and they enjoyed a number of seasons at both the Herne Hill Velodrome and The Nest. Although Crystal Palace have never won a major trophy, they have played in the First Division for the majority of their existence, finishing 3rd once, and losing the 1990 FA Cup Final to Manchester United. Crystal Palace play their homes games at Selhurst Park, and share sporting rivalries with South London neighbors Millwall, former tenants Charlton, and Brighton & Hove Albion.


Familiar Faces

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Referee

John Brooks.​

 

[always_hoping]

An opportunity to win back to back Premier League games for the first time this season. Though worth taking into account in United's last three games v Palace it was two defeats,a draw and no goal scored.

 

[RuudTom83]

An opportunity to win back to back Premier League games for the first time this season. Though worth taking into account in United's last three games v Palace it was two defeats,a draw and no goal scored.

Haha the absolute state of United this season

 

[SuperiorXI]

We better beat these lot or else

 

[dubplate warrior]

I fancy our chances more away from home.

 

[always_hoping]

Haha the absolute state of United this season

Don't need to wonder for long why United are in 12th in the table and 12 points off top 4.

 

[TrailMonkey]

Another shockingly shit home performance? We’ve been embarrassing at OT for a while, unable to play assertive, commanding football and get 3 pts in the same game. Not expecting to change that on Sunday but a win would certainly see us creeping another step toward European contention.

 

[Bertie Wooster]

Lot more relaxed about this game, compared to securing top 8 placing in EL tonight, and next weeks FA Cup knockout game v Leicester.

Hopefully we can keep up the winning run and get some consistency going. But if we are going to put in a poor performance, I'd prefer it to be in this mid table clash than next weeks FA Cup game.

Don't have much of a preference for team selection on this one - as I know we'll go strong for a league game. Just hope we go just as strong v Leicester the following week!

 

[BorisManUtd]

Probably going to sound negative as we've won last couple of games but this game feels similar to Brighton in that I'd expect us to lose it. Brighton are better team than Palace but we've been struggling vs Palace so much for years now. They got promoted in 2013 and our record was actually great before 19/20 season (10 wins and 2 draws). Since then it's 3 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats. 2 wins and 3 defeats in last 5 clashes at Old Trafford.

GK: Onana
CBs: Mazraoui-Maguire-Martinez
Midfield: Amad-Ugarte-Bruno-Dalot
Number 10s: Mainoo-Garnacho
Striker: Zirkzee

Maguire and Ugarte seem like obvious starters after getting some rest tonight. Garnacho had a good cameo so you'd expect him to start in this one (unless he's actually leaving than probably won't be even part of the squad). Zirkzee starting this one instead of Hojlund.

But I can see Amorim starting de Ligt/Yoro at RCB and Mazraoui at RWB. Don't think it would look good like it didn't vs Brighton or Southampton but we'll see.

 

[Olecurls99]

Onana
Amad
Dalot
De Ligt
Maguire
Martinez
Ugarte
Bruno
Mainoo
Eriksen
Zirkzee

 

[AbstruseAlan]

Honestly, I'd like quite like to see us going all out attack mode and try this;

------------------ Onana
---- De Ligt - Maguire - Martinez
Amad - Ugarte - Collyer - Garnacho
----------- Mainoo - Bruno
----------------- Hojlund

I'd still persist with Hojlund tbh, he's the better profile of striker IF our system works correctly and how it should. Zirkzee has been the better player the past few weeks though at ease. Keep Mainoo in the 10 and let's see Amad/Garnacho as wing backs.

 

[bosnian_red]

Finally feels like some confidence is coming back in our team. Everywhere apart from the CF position at least. Need to keep building on that and get some real momentum.

Onana
Mazraoui De Ligt Martinez
Amad Ugarte Bruno Dalot
Mainoo Garnacho
Zirkzee​

Currently our best 11 I'd say, hope we see it. Can rotate some against Leicester.

 

[Gordon S]

Only big worry is recovery here.
Feels like we are building up some momentum here, slowly.
If we can improve our finishing a touch i think we can spank them.

 

[hellhunter]

It's a game you'd expect us to struggle in. If we manage to beat those, it would solidify our upswing in form

 

[thisisnottaken1]

Hoping for a 2-1 win here based on our last three results. Probably going to be a tumescent draw. Crystal Palace are a bogey team of ours, although not as much as Brighton are.

 

[sillwuka]

I hope it's this

Onana
De ligt Maguire Martinez
Amad Ugarte Bruno Dalot
Mainoo Garnacho
Hojlund​

 

[ayushreddevil9]

Sad thing is that this is at OT

 

[Matt851]

I hope it's this

Onana
De ligt Maguire Martinez
Amad Ugarte Bruno Dalot
Mainoo Garnacho
Hojlund​

I hope we go for this, we have looked anaemic against decent defensive teams with Maz at wing back

 

[hellhunter]

I hope it's this

Onana
De ligt Maguire Martinez
Amad Ugarte Bruno Dalot
Mainoo Garnacho
Hojlund​

Good team this

 

[tomaldinho1]

This game will be very interesting to see what Amorim decides to do tactically as Glasner's setup seems very similar. Am hopeful he rolls the dice a bit and we see a more attacking line up.