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Crystal Palace brag Oliver Glasner is chasing a Premier League points grounds up of their crippled astatine location to Nottingham Forest connected Monday.
The Eagles are presently connected 45 points with 4 games remaining and request 5 much points to bushed their grounds total, which was equalled for the 3rd clip past season.
And Glasner, whose squad person an FA Cup last against Manchester City to look guardant to aboriginal this month, has that grounds successful his sights.
“Our extremity is precise wide and we privation to person the astir points successful Palace history,” helium said, arsenic quoted by BBC Sport.
“That means we request astatine slightest 5 successful 4 games and the champion happening to execute is getting 3 points against Nottingham and past 3 points against Tottenham. Then the archetypal extremity is achieved, and past we tin absorption connected the last successful FA Cup.
“We privation to triumph astatine home. I watched the semi-finals against City, I watched them yesterday evening and it showed what a bully squad they are adjacent if they mislaid some the games. They are playing for European places and they volition beryllium precise motivated and we volition request the aforesaid motivation.”
For Nottingham Forest, meanwhile, Nuno Espirito Santo was insistent that the unit was not getting to his players pursuing Thursday’s decision to Brentford.
That nonaccomplishment near Forest extracurricular the apical 5 connected extremity difference, meaning they could miss retired connected a spot successful the Champions League.
“We don’t spot it but we consciousness it. The mentation for that we person to find successful ourselves. But I don’t spot [pressure], I spot belief, tendency and commitment,” said Nuno.
But the world is we are struggling successful immoderate aspects of our crippled – absorption and determination to beryllium applicable and lick the situations that are elemental to solve. [To get backmost to ourselves] is the basal enactment we have. We don’t person to change, we person to spell backmost and find our version.
“We person been wide and spoken galore times astir however we play. Our basal is being compact and solid, we don’t springiness distant chances. We are a squad that ever covers, truthful our opponents person to bash overmuch much to execute what they achieved today.”
Under the lights connected Monday nighttime #CPFC // #CRYNFO
— Crystal Palace F.C. (@CPFC) May 1, 2025
Crystal Palace – Jean-Philippe Mateta
Mateta has scored 10 goals successful his past 13 Premier League appearances, each successful 2025.
It’s the 2nd consecutive play he’s scored 10+ goals from January until the extremity of the season, scoring 14 successful 18 games successful 2023-24 successful that timeframe, with Andrew Johnson the lone Eagles subordinate to execute this beforehand (11 successful 2004-05).
Nottingham Forest – Chris Wood
Wood has scored 17 goals successful his past 24 Premier League appearances connected the roadworthy for Nottingham Forest and has 9 distant goals this season, with nary Forest subordinate ever scoring 10 distant goals successful a season.
He could beryllium the sixth subordinate to people 10+ location goals and 10+ distant goals successful a Premier League play implicit the property of 30, with Mohamed Salah besides achieving that successful 2024-25.
MATCH PREDICTION: CRYSTAL PALACE WIN
Palace travel into this lucifer having won 5 and drawn 1 of their past six matches successful each competitions astatine Selhurst Park.
Glasner’s broadside person mislaid conscionable 2 of their past 11 location games successful each competitions.
Forest, meanwhile, person mislaid 4 of their past 5 matches.
The Tricky Trees, however, person won 2 of their past 3 distant Premier League games successful London (L1), arsenic galore arsenic they did crossed their erstwhile 23 trips to the superior combined (W2 D5 L16). Forest are looking to triumph 3 distant games successful London successful a play for the 2nd clip successful the Premier League, besides doing truthful successful 1994-95.
Indeed, Forest person won 9 distant Premier League matches this play and person lone won 10 top-flight distant matches successful a play connected 3 occasions – successful 1977-78 (finished 1st), 1978-79 (2nd) and 1994-95 (third).
OPTA WIN PROBABILITY
Crystal Palace – 43.5%
Draw – 26.4%
Nottingham Forest – 30.2%
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