Oliver Glasner is delighted by the road of Crystal Palace, but hopes that they can translate that into Selhurst Park while they are preparing to welcome Aston Villa in the Premier League.
Palace has established a new club record by winning four consecutive road competition matches after their 2-0 win over Fulham on Saturday, but only won this period two of twice on the home floor in the Premier League.
The recent increase in the Eagles in form sees them 13th sitting in the top flight on 33 points, while a victory on Tuesday would see them jump Tottenham, who only plays on Wednesday.
Glasner emphasized the hard work of Palace to continue their impressive form away from home and hopeful that they can be against Villa on the right side of the result.
“Every victory was earned,” said Glasner. “It's not that we were completely lucky.
“The players did well. It was a great dedication of them to get the results.
“We would lead the competition table if we also win every match at home. It is the Premier League. Every match is determined by two or three chances.”
Time to build on the positives tomorrow evening #CPFC
– Crystal Palace FC (@CPFC) 24 February 2025
Villa has collected nine points than their opponents and are eighth, but are only two points behind Manchester City in fourth place at the start of the week.
They are unbeaten in their last three league games, which come from behind to win a 2-1 victory over Chelsea in the previous time-out.
Unai Emery gives their hope not to sign up for Europe next season, but admitted that their following results can have a lot of influence on their chances of doing this.
“It depends on how we react,” said Emery. “The competition is progressing and the competitions are decreasing, so we have to recover [the points] that we have lost.
“But we are positive and we try to be more or less strong again, astute and mentally. We have done business in the transfer window and we need time to restore players. Every day and match is a test.”
Players to watch
Crystal Palace-Jean-Philippe Mateta
With four goals and three assists, Jean-Philippe Mateta was directly involved in more Premier League goals against villa than he has a different opponent.
The Frenchman yielded a hat trick (and offered one assist) in the 5-0 victory of the Eagles in this exact game last season.
Aston Villa – Marco Asensio
Marco Asensio has been directly involved in eight goals in his last nine league starts with Paris Saint-Germain and Villa (four goals, four assists), which means that both goals of the Villans Last Time Out in their 2-1 Comeback winning against Chelsea have delivered.
Marco you beauty pic.twitter.com/tid0snrygd
– Aston Villa (@AVFCofficial) 23 February 2025
Match forecast: Crystal Palace Win
Crystal Palace has won five of their last six Premier League home matches against Aston Villa (L1) and defeated them 5-0 in this exact fixture in the previous term.
Palace is unbeaten in their last four midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) Premier League matches, with a clean slate (W3 D1) every time. They had admitted for this in each of their previous 15 midweek League matches (W3 D4 L8).
However, they have won only one of their last eight Premier League matches (D3 L4) and lost the last two in a row. It is the first time that they have lost successive games in the home floor in the competition under Glasner.
The reverse match between Palace and Villa ended in November of 2-2-the Villans, the Eagles beat at least once in each of the last seven Premier League campaigns in which they met.
Emery's side, however, has struggled on the road lately and lost six of their last eight Premier League matches (W1 D1), as much as in their previous 22 road from home (W11 D5).
Opta wins probability
Crystal Palace – 40.5%
Drawing – 26.6%
Aston Villa – 32.9%
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