Tips for match Crystal Palace — Manchester City
Crystal Palace and Manchester City will play in the 15th round of the English Premier League on December 7. This is the match when it is worth trying to catch the odds on the favorite, which has grown significantly after their long period of failures. Moreover, the opponent, to put it mildly, is not the strongest.
Crystal Palace is close to the relegation zone, ahead of Ipswich by only 3 points, which certainly does not add confidence to the small London club. After Palace lost Olise, who went to Bayern, they clearly gave in and still cannot find a replacement for him. And Mateta, who showed himself excellently last season, is still failing and shows a low level of implementation. In November, Crystal Palace could not win a single match, although they played 3 times to a draw. But when you are fighting for survival, 3 points in a month is not the best result. But it is not so much about the results, but about the style of play and the psychology of KP. The coach has not been able to build any new Eintracht or something like it, and over the last 5 games we have seen several attempts to change tactics, which have created more chaos in the matches.
If we analyze the last game of Palace, where they beat Ipswich away with a score of 0-1, we can see that the visitors did not beat the opponent by much: 2-3 in shots on target, 9-13 in shots in total, and Ipswich had a shot on the post. Yes, Crystal Palace's xG is as much as one unit higher, but here it is more likely that the statistical portals know why there is such a big difference.
Manchester City is in crisis according to most football experts, but will they get out of it? Of course yes, with such a set of players, Guardiola's team will sooner or later return to the fight for the championship and will start doing so already in the 15th round. De Bruyne returned to the starting lineup in the last match and the team regained the level of football intelligence that it lacked. Let's not forget that the City - Nottingham Forest match was a match between the 5th and 6th teams. Nottingham is not an easy team for any opponent, the match with Liverpool showed this, but City with De Bruyne had practically no problems with the "foresters".
And here the odds are as much as 1.57 for the victory of the current champion against the outsider of the Premier League, why not take advantage of it? City won 3 of the last 4 head-to-head matches, and the 2-2 match in 2023 was rather an exception to the rule. The KP bus then miraculously managed to recoup after 0-2, the loss of concentration of City affected, and not the excellent play of the opponent. Now this will definitely not happen again, the desire to win for the Mancunians is off the charts.
Sportwars.net forecast for the match Crystal Palace - Manchester City, 07.12.24: Manchester City win, odds 1.57.
Prediction for the exact score of the match: 0-3, odds 11.
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