Eagles Back On The Road With Trip To Manchester

Oliver Glasner takes his troops up to Old Trafford on the eve of Transfer Deadline Day in the hope that he will have a new face or two boosting the squad after this fixture.

 

MATCH INFORMATION

2 February 2025 – 2pm
Old Trafford, Stretford, Manchester M16 0RA

PREVIOUS MEETING

30/09/2023 – The last trip to Old Trafford was a fruitful one as a first half strike from Joachim Andersen ended up securing all three points for the visitors.
WHO SCORED MAN OF THE MATCH – Joachim Andersen (8.7)

 

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee John Brooks
Assistant Simon Bennett
Assistant Dan Robathan
Fourth Official Ben Toner
VAR Craig Pawson
Assistant VAR Neil Davies

TEAM NEWS

PALACE – Cheick Doucoure, Chadi Riad, Joel Ward, Ebere Eze, and Rob Holding all miss out. Matheus Franca and Adam Wharton will travel and are expected to make the bench at least.

UNITED – Luke Shaw, Mason Mount and Jonny Evans are all unavailable.

 

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 – Bruno Fernandes (2), Daichi Kamada (1)
YELLOW CARDS (over 5.5) – Lisandro Martinez (7), Manuel Ugarte (7), Will Hughes (7), Harry Maguire (6)

 

FORM GUIDE

Last FIVE meetings between the two sides;

21/09/2024 Palace 0-0 United
06/05/2024 Palace 4-0 United
30/09/2023 United 0-1 Palace
26/09/2023 United 3-0 Palace
04/02/2023 United 2-1 Palace

Last FIVE results for Palace:

26/01/2025 Palace 1-2 Brentford
18/01/2025 West Ham 0-2 Palace
15/01/2025 Leicester 0-2 Palace
12/01/2025 Palace 1-0 Stockport
04/01/2025 Palace 1-1 Chelsea

Last FIVE results for United;

30/01/2025 FCSB 0-2 United
26/01/2025 Fulham 0-1 United
23/01/2025 United 2-1 Rangers
19/01/2025 United 1-3 Brighton
16/01/2025 United 3-1 Southampton

 

LEAGUE POSITION

Heading into the fixture, Palace are 13th in the Premier League with 27 points from 23 games played, while United are 12th with 29 points from the same games played.

 

RECORD AGAINST UNITED

Played 67
Won 12
Drawn 14
Lost 41

 

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!

Amad Diallo 7.17
Ebere Eze 7.12
Daniel Munoz 7.07
Bruno Fernandes 7.01

 

ONE TO WATCH

AMAD DIALLO
FORMER CLUBS – Boca Barco, Atalanta, Rangers (loan), Sunderland (loan)
The 22 year old attacker has come of age this season having had a couple of valuable spells out on loan to provide much needed experience. He has become perhaps the one shining light so far this season for United and will likely form part of Ruben Amorim’s squad going forward.

THE NUMBERS

  • Palace have won 5 of the past 11 top-flight encounters (D3, L3), including 3 of their last 5 trips to Old Trafford.

  • Manchester United are in danger of going 4 consecutive league matches without scoring against a particular opponent for the first time since a similar run versus Arsenal between 1981 and 1983.

  • The Eagles have earned 13 Premier League away points since the start of December, more than any other side prior to the latest round of fixtures.

  • They are vying to win three consecutive top-flight away games for the first time since May 2019.

  • Oliver Glasner’s side have conceded 11 Premier League away goals this term, fewer than any other side.

  • Romain Esse can become the fourth teenager to score in each of his first 2 Premier League appearances, emulating Alan Smith for Leeds and Federico Macheda and Anthony Martial for Manchester United.

  • Jean-Philippe Mateta has scored 21 goals in 36 appearances since Glasner took charge in February 2024.

KEY CLASH

WILL HUGHES v BRUNO FERNANDES
Much will depend on the midfield battle in this game, and the Palace midfielder will be the first to acknowledge that was a major problem in the loss to Brentford last week.

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 8 (12th)
Assists Ebere EZE 5 (13th)
Passes Marc GUEHI 1169 (19th)
Tackles Daniel MUNOZ 82 (1st)
Touches Marc GUEHI 1467 (23rd)
Shots Ebere EZE 65 (6th)
Fouls Will HUGHES 39 (7th)
Dispossessed Ebere EZE 30 (24th)
Saves Dean HENDERSON 65 (6th)
Clearances Maxence LACROIX 108 (7th)
Big Chances Missed Jean-Philippe MATETA 11 (7th)

 

TEB PREDICTION

There is not much between these two sides as league positions will testify and hopefully the Eagles will have the added bonus of their opponents having had a Thursday night trip to Romania in the Europa League to contend with. There is a good opportunity for Palace to snatch a point of three from this fixture.

PREDICTED SCORE: 1-1
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