After a successful start to life at Palace, Oliver Glasner takes his Eagles to North London this weekend to face Spurs in what is expected to be much more of a challenge than Burnley.
MATCH INFORMATION
- 3pm – 2nd March 2024
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Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, 782 High Road, London N17 0BX
PREVIOUS MEETING
A single goal from Harry Kane was enough to seal the points for the hosts last May in what was a tightly fought contest.
WHO SCORED MAN OF THE MATCH – Cristian Romero (8.6)
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: John Brooks. Assistants: Lee Betts, Nick Greenhalgh. Fourth official: Darren England. VAR: Rob Jones. Assistant VAR: Harry Lennard.
TEAM NEWS
PALACE – Cheick Doucoure, Rob Holding, Michael Olise, Marc Guehi, and Jesurun Rak-Sakyi are all expected to miss out. Will Hughes, Ebere Eze and Joachim Andersen will be assessed but could feature.
SPURS – Ryan Sessegnon, Fraser Forster, Pedro Porro and Mano Solomon miss out while Destiny Udogie will be assessed for a return.
DISCIPLINARY RECORD
RED CARDS – Yves Bissouma (2), Jordan Ayew (1), Cristian Romero (1), Destiny Udogie (1)
YELLOW CARDS (5+) – Jefferson Lerma (6), Jordan Ayew (6), Dejan Kulusevski (6), Yves Bissouma (5), Destiny Udogie (5), Pape Sarr (5), Tyrick Mitchell (5)
FORM GUIDE
Last FIVE meetings between the two sides;
- 27/10/23 Palace 1-2 Spurs
- 06/05/23 Spurs 1-0 Palace
- 04/01/23 Palace 0-4 Spurs
- 26/12/21 Spurs 3-0 Spurs
- 11/09/21 Palace 3-0 Spurs
Last FIVE results for Palace:
- 24/02/24 Palace 3-0 Burnley
- 21/02/24 Everton 1-1 Palace
- 12/02/24 Palace 1-3 Chelsea
- 03/02/24 Brighton 4-1 Palace
- 30/01/24 Palace 3-2 Sheffield United
Last FIVE results for Spurs;
- 17/02/24 Spurs 1-2 Wolves
- 10/02/24 Spurs 2-1 Brighton
- 03/02/24 Everton 2-2 Spurs
- 31/01/24 Spurs 3-2 Brentford
- 26/01/24 Spurs 0-1 Manchester City
LEAGUE POSITION
Heading into the fixture, Palace are 13th in the Premier League with 28 points from 26 games played, while Spurs are 5th with 47 points from 25 games.
RECORD AGAINST SPURS
- Played 58
- Won 11
- Drawn 15
- Lost 32
FORM PLAYERS ACCORDING TO WHO SCORED
- Michael Olise 7.54
- James Maddison 7.45
- Son Heung-Min 7.31
- Eberechi Eze 7.25
ONE TO WATCH
SON HEUNG-MIN
FORMER CLUBS – Yukminkwan Middle School, Dongbuk Middle School, FC Seoul, Hamburger SV, Bayer Leverkusen
Spurs no longer have Harry Kane to score goals against Palace, but they do still have South Korean international Son who has netted 3 in the last 4 games against the Eagles.
KEY CLASH
TYRICK MITCHELL v DEJAN KULUSEVSKI
The young Palace left back has started well in the new formation and while we know his defensive capabilities, his forward play has been questionable at times but his work will be cut out up against the Swedish international who scored against Wolves last time out and put in a decent personal performance even if Spurs did end up losing.
PRE-MATCH STATS
- GOALS – Odsonne Edouard/ Michael Olise (6)
- ASSISTS – Jordan Ayew (6 – 13th in PL)
- PASSES – Joachim Andersen (1,510 – 16th in PL)
- TACKLES – Tyrick Mitchell (67 – 6th in PL)
- TOUCHES – Joachim Andersen (1,866 – 19th in PL)
- SHOTS – Ebere Eze (48 – 20th in PL)
- FOULS – Jordan Ayew (37 – 7th in PL)
- DISPOSSESSED – Jordan Ayew (67 – 1st in PL)
- SAVES – Sam Johnstone (37 – 19th in PL)
- CLEARANCES – Joachim Andersen (128 – 2nd in PL)
- BIG CHANCES MISSED – Odsonne Edouard (5)
THE NUMBERS
Palace have only won 1 of their past 17 Premier League games against Tottenham, a 3-0 win at Selhurst Park in September 2021 under Patrick Vieira.
Spurs have lost 2 of their past 3 home London derbies in the Premier League, though they did beat Brentford 3-2 in their past such match. They have not lost 3 London derby matches at home in the same campaign since 2004-05.
Palace have opened the scoring in each of their past 3 Premier League games, as many times as they had in their previous 16. They last scored the first goal in 4 consecutive league games in November 2021.
With 8 goals and 2 assists, Tottenham’s Son Heung-min has been involved in 10 goals in 15 Premier League appearances against Palace. Only against Southampton (15) and Leicester (13) has he been involved in more.
Palace won 3-0 against Burnley in Oliver Glasner’s first Premier League game in charge. Only Alan Pardew has ever won both of his first 2 in charge of the Eagles, doing so with victories over Tottenham and Burnley in January 2015.
TEB PREDICTION
Oliver Glasner will still have to contend with some big names absent from the Palace squad but he will have had a full week on the training ground with the players. It will take time to settle and for the Austrian to convey and implement his ideas but it will be interesting to see how we fair against Spurs. We would take a point but expect a narrow loss.
FINAL SCORE: 2-1 to Spurs
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