In a mid week match on Wednesday Dec 15th, in week 17, Southampton and Crystal Palace will play a match in London in a clash of the Premier League. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 9 degrees, making for an unpleasant day. Crystal Palace is fresh off their 0-1 loss against Manchester United. Fred struck first for Manchester United in the 77th minute, and that single goal was all that was necessary as neither team could manage any more scoring At the end of 90 a dissapointed Crystal Palace couldn’t manage to score, and Manchester United took the shutout win. Crystal Palace is looking for direction having 2 win and 3 losses in their last 10 matches, while southampton sits at 16th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-3 loss against Arsenal. Alexandre Lacazette struck first for Arsenal in the 21st minute, then Martin Ødegaard added another in the 27th minute on a feed from Kieran Tierney In the end, Southampton was frustrated by Arsenal’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Arsenal ended the match with the shutout victory. Southampton is looking for direction having 3 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out. Last season these teams were evenly matched with 1 win apiece.
Che Adams has been the most prolific scorer on Southampton in his last 5 matches with two goals. Both Christian Benteke and Marc Guehi have been the hottest scorers for Crystal Palace in the last 5 each having scored 2 goals
Patrick Vieira’s squad will be without Joachim Andersen, James McArthur and Nathan Ferguson, while Ralph Hasenhüttl’s squad will be without Fraser Forster, Oriol Romeu, Stuart Armstrong, Jan Bednarek, Alex McCarthy and Jack Stephens.