Glasner Must Take Advantage Of Break And Lead Palace To First Victory

The break for international football will hopefully prove to be valuable as the Eagles head back on the road with a trip to Nottingham, seeking their first league win of the season. 

 

MATCH INFORMATION

21 October 2024 – 8pm
The City Ground, West Bridgford, Nottingham NG2 5FJ

 

PREVIOUS MEETING

30/03/2024 – A point on the road is always valuable but the Eagles returned back South wondering how they did not win the game after Ebere Eze gave the visitors an early lead. There were chances either side of an equaliser from Chris Wood but ultimately the point was probably the fair result. 
WHO SCORED MAN OF THE MATCH – Ebere Eze (7.4)

 

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee Tim Robinson
Assistant Tim Wood
Assistant Craig Taylor
Fourth Official Michael Salisbury
VAR Darren England
Assistant VAR Richard West
 

TEAM NEWS

PALACE – Chadi Riad, Chris Richards, Matt Turner, Rob Holding, and Matheus Franca are all ruled out. Cheick Doucoure, Daniel Munoz and Adam Wharton could feature. 

FOREST – Danilo, Ibrahim Sangare, James Ward-Prowse, and Morgan Gibbs-White are all expected to miss out. Matz Sels will be assessed but expected to play.   

 

DISCIPLINARY RECORD

This is the section of our match preview that highlights those that have not been the best of friends with match officials as the season goes on. Of course, they all begin with a clean slate, but we will start to see those that will be heading for a ban or two as the campaign progresses. 

RED CARDS – Morgan Gibbs-White (1), James Ward-Prowse (1)
YELLOW CARDS (over 1.5) – Nico Williams (3), Will Hughes (3), Ibrahim Sangare (2), Matz Sels (2), Ryan Yates (2), Jefferson Lerma (2) 

 

FORM GUIDE

Last FIVE meetings between the two sides;

30/03/2023 Forest 1-1 Palace
07/10/2023 Palace 0-0 Forest
28/05/2023 Palace 1-1 Forest
12/11/2022 Forest 1-0 Palace
19/07/2019 Forest 1-0 Palace

Last FIVE results for Palace:

05/10/2024 Palace 0-1 Liverpool
28/09/2024 Everton 2-1 Palace
21/09/2024 Palace 0-0 Manchester United
17/09/2024 QPR 1-2 Palace
14/09/2024 Palace 2-2 Leicester

Last FIVE results for Forest;

06/10/2024 Chelsea 1-1 Forest
28/09/2024 Forest 0-1 Fulham
22/09/2024 Brighton 2-2 Forest
14/09/2024 Liverpool 0-1 Forest
31/08/2024 Forest 1-1 Wolves

 

LEAGUE POSITION

Heading into the fixture Palace sit 18th in the Premier League with 3 points from 7 games while Forest are 10th with 10 points. 

 

RECORD AGAINST FOREST

Played 67
Won 16
Drawn 22
Lost 29

 

FORM PLAYERS ACCORDING TO WHO SCORED

This is the section of our match preview where we list two players from each side that are top of the ratings by our friends over at Who Scored. Obviously, there are no ratings to share at the moment but that will soon change!

Maxence Lacroix 7.11
Callum Hudson-Odoi 6.91
Nikola Milenkovic 6.91
Marc Guehi 6.88

 

ONE TO WATCH

NIKOLA MILENKOVIC
FORMER CLUBS – FK Zarkovo, Partizan, Teleoptik, Fiorentina
The big Serbian centre back made his name in Serie A with Fiorentina having made over 200 appearances for the Italian club before his arrival in Nottingham in the summer. 

KEY CLASH

EDDIE NKETIAH v NIKOLA MILENKOVIC
It was no secret that the former Arsenal striker had interest from Forest before his short move across London, but he has yet to find the net in the Premier League this season. He will be up against the big Serb who is no slouch on the ground either but Nketiah will be keen to get off the mark for the Eagles. 

PRE-MATCH STATS

This is the section of our match preview where we keep a tally on the statistics for Palace players as the campaign continues and how they compare to other Premier League players. 

Goals Jean-Philippe MATETA 2 (22nd)
Assists Tyrick MITCHELL, Maxence LACROIX 1 (31st)
Passes Marc GUEHI 414 (21st)
Tackles Tyrick MITCHELL 23 (5th)
Touches Marc GUEHI 509 (19th)
Shots Ebere EZE 27 (3rd)
Fouls Daichi KAMADA 12 (13th)
Dispossessed Ebere EZE 11 (23rd)
Saves Dean HENDERSON 22 (6th)
Clearances Marc GUEHI 46 (2nd)
Big Chances Missed Ebere EZE 5 (4th)

 

TEB PREDICTION

There has rarely been a flourish of goals in fixtures between these two sides in recent times so a betting man would have this on their slip for an accumulator this weekend. However, we have a feeling that Palace will find a way to get their first victory of the season particularly as the hosts miss a couple of key players – it has to happen at some point, right? 

PREDICTED SCORE: 2-0 to Palace

 

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