Oliver Glasner insists that the Premier League match of Crystal Palace against Tottenham is 'businesslike as usual' for the FA Cup final against Manchester City.
Palace is 12th in the table, four points for Everton and five behind Fulham, with all the eyes on next week's showdown in Wembley.
However, the Glasner side is about to match their recordly-out points in the Premier League.
This season they picked up 46 points, only three shortage of their competitive record of 49, which they reached in 1992-93, 2018-19 and 2023-24.
In particular, 52%of the points of the Eagles in the competition this season (24/46), with only Ipswich Town (68%), Southampton (55%) and Bournemouth (53%) with a higher ratio.
“It is now about being the best prepared, and we want to show the best performance we can show,” said Glasner prior to the opposite Spurs.
“It is more or less the same situation for both teams. We have this game and our final on Saturday. [Tottenham] have this game and another in between and their [Europa League final].
“I always believe that at the end of the season you get what you deserve. I think we will earn the final now because of our great performances in the FA Cup.
“I think we deserve the position in the competition, which is only average for Crystal Palace, in terms of the 12th but yes, the amount of points is good.
“We now want to go for the highest amount of points in the history of Crystal Palace.
“This game is just businesslike to us. We want to play the final. We want to have this positive stress. The better our performance is in Tottenham, the better our trust will be for the final.”
Only good atmosphere #CPFC // #totcry pic.twitter.com/XLVEG6EQH7
– Crystal Palace FC (@CPFC) 10 May 2025
In the meantime, Tottenham will still drive high from their Europa League semi-final victory in midweek, with a completely English final against Manchester United to get on May 21.
Spurs played a lukewarm 1-1 draw with West Ham previous time-out in the top flight, leaving them in 16th place.
After their Europa League victory at Bodo/shines, Ange Postecoglou has to let some players rest.
“It will be a balancing act. [Cristian] Romero and Micky van de Ven must get some playing time between occasion [the Europa League final]”He said.
“But that's unlikely [against Palace]Because the thing about Thursday evening, playing on an artificial pitch costs a lot from the players. It is fair to say that they were painful. “
Players to watch
Tottenham son Heung-Min
The son of Tottenham scored nine goals in his 16 Premier League performances against Palace and only scored more against Southampton (11) in the competition.
In fact, only Sadio Mane (13) and Harry Kane (11) have more goals against the Eagles in the Premier League in general.
Crystal Palace – Ebereechi Eze
Eze was directly involved in Vijf van Palace's last seven league goals (three goals, two assists) and scored in each of their last two league games.
In his 267 game English League career, Eze has to find it in three consecutive performances.
“Half hope that we will get Sonny for a few minutes tomorrow.”
Ange with a team news update prior to Crystal Palace pic.twitter.com/G7rjwtysok
– Tottenham Hotspur (@spursofficial) 10 May 2025
Match -Forecast: Draw
Both parties come in the back of Sunday on the back of some underwhelming form. Tottenham has won only one of their last nine Premier League matches (D2 L6), admitted in each of their last 10 games in the competition (a total of 20).
They last passed a longer run without a clean magazine in the competition in December 2010 (17 games), although their recent record against Crystal Palace is quite favorable.
Spurs has won each of their last nine Premier League matches against the Eagles. In their top history they only won 10 in a row against Blackburn (1933 to 1966).
Palace is Winless in their last five league games (D3 L2), after winning four of their previous five before (D1).
The Eagles each of their last three league matches and drew the last four in a row in October 2021 under Patrick Vieira.
Opta wins probability
Tottenham Hotspur – 36.7%
Drawing – 25.3%
Crystal Palace – 38.1%
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