Arsenal – Crystal Palace. Forecast and announcement for the English League Cup match

On December 18, the 1/4 final match of the League Cup will be held at the Emirates, in which “Arsenal” will meet “Crystal Palace”. The match will start at 21:30 Kyiv time.

Arsenal

The team has definitely improved in recent seasons. And in the spring, she reached the playoffs of the Champions League, where she did not play for a long time. At the same time, in the Premier League, Manchester City defended the title, breaking away from the club from London by only 2 points. And, having strengthened at points in the summer, showed a good start. But in the middle of autumn there was a sharp decline. If the defeat of Inter is not critical for the positions in the English Champions League, then in the domestic arena, having scored 2 points in 4 rounds, the red and white team increased the gap with Liverpool. But after a break in national team games, it turned out to be a sharp increase, giving a series of confident victories. But the last rounds of the Premier League brought only draws with Fulham and Everton. At the same time, however, they defeated Monaco in the Champions League a week ago 3:0.

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Crystal Palace

The club was a middle peasant for a long time, and Hodgson kept them at this level. They said goodbye to him once – but soon he had to be asked to come back and pull him out of the pit into which Patrick Vieira led the team. The old man Roy managed, but they still wanted to part with him, and in the course of the last season, allegedly due to problems with the veteran coach, Glasner replaced him. Oliver, who had not worked for Tumanny Albion before, had an optimistic start, finishing the last season in tenth position. But after the summer vacation, there are very few victories in the championship. But this is not a reason to put an end to the project. First of all, lately he has been clinging to points even against strong opponents – they even won against Tottenham, there were draws with Aston Villa, Newcastle and Manchester City. And they even beat Brighton 3:1 at the weekend. And in the League Cup, they managed to knock out not only Norwich and QPR, but also Aston Villa.

Statistics of personal meetings

All the last 4 matches were won by red and white. Last time, in January, they won 5:0.

Forecast

Bookmakers naturally expect the Gunners to win. But the guests are not hopeless. Taking into account the character that they show and the format of the meeting, we bet on the Eagles with a handicap of +1.5 goals (coefficient – 1.67).