Crystal Palace and Norwich City are going to face off on Tuesday the 28th of December at 3:00 pm in the 20th week of the Premier League. The match will be played in London at the Selhurst Park. The referee will be Paul Tierney.
Crystal Palace is in the 11th place in the table with 20 points. It comes from a 2-2 draw against Southampton in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 4 times, draw 8 times, and lost 5 times.
Norwich City sits in the 20th position in the league with 10 points. It comes from a 0-1 loss against Manchester United in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won twice, draw 4 times, and lost 10 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (13 times or 76.47%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (13 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times) and 4-4-2 (once).
Patrick Vieira is expected to play against Norwich City with the following players: V. Guaita Panadero, T. Mitchell, M. Guehi, J. Tomkins, J. Ward, C. Kouyaté, J. Schlupp, C. Gallagher, M. Olise, W. Zaha and C. Benteke Liolo.
Granting that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of Crystal Palace would be 27.55.
Patrick Vieira will probably not be able to employ J. McArthur because of injury.
N. Ferguson will definitely miss the match.
Norwich City
Norwich City has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 43.75%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (7 times), 5-3-2 (4 times), 4-1-4-1 (2 times), 4-2-3-1 (once), 4-4-2 (once) and 3-5-2 (once).
Dean Smith is expected to play against Crystal Palace with the following players: T. Krul, D. Giannoulis, B. Gibson, M. Aarons, K. McLean, B. Gilmour, J. Sørensen, K. Dowell, J. Sargent and T. Pukki.
If this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Norwich City would be 25.60.
There are doubts about the presence of O. Kabak.
Dean Smith will probably not be able to employ M. Antonsen Normann, M. Rashica and C. Tzolis because of injury.
G. Hanley, A. Omobamidele and C. Zimmermann will definitely miss the match.
