Crystal Palace

Jess Anderson
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Crystal Palace arrived at Molineux on a high following their first Premier League win of the season over Tottenham last weekend and victory over Aston Villa in the EFL Cup in midweek.

Trevoh Chalobah's opener was deserved after the Eagles had enjoyed the better of the chances in the first half and when the game opened up in the second.

But the visitors were missing key players in Eberechi Eze and Adam Wharton and, up against a Wolves side battling for their first win of the season, Palace fell behind.

Marc Guehi's equaliser, tapped in at the back post, was just reward for all their chances and, were it not for what was deemed to be a foul on Wolves goalkeeper Jose Sa, Jean-Philippe Mateta would have won the game for Palace in the 96th minute.

As it happened, his low drive was ruled out and Oliver Glasner had to settle for a share of the spoils.

Palace can take confidence from a positive week of results but must keep getting points on the board to distance themselves from the relegation zone.

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Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner has spoken to Sky Sports after today's draw: "I'm really proud of the team and the players for how they performed today. It was the third game in six days. We should have taken the lead before half-time. We had two great chances after making it 1-0. You could see the players were tired, the squad is very tight at the moment. I'm really proud of how we performed today.

"After the set play, we knew Wolves would struggle with them so we scored two from them. If we have so many chances in an away game, five or six clear ones, then you should decide it. You could see the players were very tired after a very intense week."

On the disallowed goal: "I could see it, yes. It's a 50/50 decision. We can see how the referee whistled in the game. He continued many duels, he didn't call for a foul. I think if the referee allowed it then the VAR wouldn't have taken it back. The one is the hand from Dawson. This is a decision where VAR has to intervene because it's a clear red card. We can't influence it but we can decide the chances we have in the moment."

On injuries in his squad: "Everyone knows what to do and how we want to play. it's a great group and we have to use the international break for two or three players coming back. Eze and Wharton can create chances but the players today created a lot of chances."

On last season's form: "It makes no sense to talk about that. We are so far away from it. We've got players settling into how we play. I think Trevoh Chalobah played more this week than he did in the last eight months. We need the injured players back but they will come back."

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Crystal Palace defender Trevoh Chalobah speaking after today's draw: "It was a hard week for us, three games in a week but the boys dug in. We should have done a bit better today but it's better than a loss. We had plenty of chances to kill the game. Obviously my mistake, which I will learn from, and we go again next week."

On his goal: "I saw that the gap was there and I saw that the keeper was on the side so I just tried to keep it low.

"It's been a tough start for us but I thought we have played well in most of the games we have played this season just without the end product and the goals."

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Chris Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League matches this season, against a variety of guests.

For week 10 he takes on The Piano TV series winner Brad Kella.

Sutton's prediction: 1-0

Southampton are finding out just how brutal the Premier League is, and the same applies for Wolves.

Like Saints, they are winless but they have been playing pretty well and maybe Matheus Cunha's stoppage-time equaliser for them against Brighton will be the moment they turn their season around.

I don't think Wolves will lose this game, but the question is will they win it? I worry about them conceding goals and Crystal Palace are likely to have a bit more confidence going forward after their win over Tottenham on Sunday, when Eberechi Eze played really well.

So, what do I go for here? It is going to be close, but I am going to say Gary O'Neil's side will finally win, and keep a clean sheet too.

Brad's prediction: 0-2

I'm not sure about this. Wolves need a win but I really don’t see them getting it. I just have a feeling for Palace.

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Seven matches make up Saturday's Premier League action, and we will bring you every moment.

• Newcastle v Arsenal - 12:30

• Bournemouth v Manchester City

• Ipswich v Leicester

• Liverpool v Brighton - listen on BBC Radio 5 Live

• Nottingham Forest v West Ham

• Southampton v Everton

• Wolves v Crystal Palace - 17:30 - listen on BBC Radio 5 Live

Kick-off 15:00 GMT unless stated

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Alex Howell
BBC Sport football news reporter

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Arsenal have a potential fixture clash involving their men's Carabao Cup quarter-final with Crystal Palace and the women's Champions League game with Bayern Munich.

The women's team are scheduled to play Bayern at home on Wednesday, 18 December.

Mikel Arteta's side have been drawn at home against Crystal Palace in the quarter-final of the Carabao Cup and the match is due to take place that same midweek.

Crystal Palace play Brighton on Sunday, 15 December - a match that had been scheduled to be broadcast on television. That presents a problem as if the cup match was moved to Tuesday, it would only give Palace 48 hours of recovery.

The cup fixture is also unable to be moved to the Thursday as Palace and Arsenal are scheduled to play each other on Saturday, 21 December in the Premier League at Selhurst Park.

Arsenal's neighbours Tottenham have also been drawn at home in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup, which presents another problem for schedulers.

Spurs and Arsenal do not play home matches at the same time, with agreements needing to be made on who gets the pick when situations like this arise in cup competitions.

Arsenal announced in the summer that the women's team would play three Champions League matches at Emirates Stadium if the team qualified for the group stage and games in the knockout stage would take place there too if the team progressed in the competition.

The BBC has contacted the English Football League, Arsenal and Crystal Palace and the schedule clash is being discussed.

Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner has been speaking to the media before Saturday's Premier League game at Wolves (17:30 GMT).

Here are the key lines from his news conference:

• Glasner confirmed midfielder Adam Wharton will undergo surgery on his persistent groin issue: "He tried [to train] today but there’s too much pain and it makes no sense. He’s really struggled the last weeks and months and so now we took the decision he will have surgery, and we hope to have him back after, let’s say, four weeks."

• Right-back Joel Ward will miss the trip to Wolves but his injury is "not serious" and he should be fit to face Fulham while midfielder Jefferson Lerma is out "at least until the international break".

• He gave positive updates on midfielder Cheick Doucoure, who has been out with a long-term achilles problem, and defender Chris Richards who has been out with a hamstring issue: "Cheick Doucoure will be back in the squad maybe earlier than we expected. Next week Chris Richards should train with us if everything goes the right way, and that’s the positive news."

• He is remaining positive despite the injury crisis: "We're still a strong squad. We could also win at Villa because it was 1-1 when Adam and Ebs left the pitch, and we could win it. This gives us confidence in every single player, and so we go to Wolverhampton to win this game."

• More on building on the midweek Carabao Cup win over Aston Villa: "We don't complain about injuries, we don't complain about that playing during the week. The easiest way would have been to lose the first game in the EFL Cup against Norwich City [in the second round], but we want to play this cup. The players did really great at Villa and so we want to continue this winning streak."

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Alex Howell
BBC Sport football news reporter

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Daichi Kamada has had a mixed time at Crystal Palace since signing for the club.

Brought in by Oliver Glasner - Kamada played under him at Eintracht Frankfurt - he was signed as a way for the manager to continue to get his ideas of how he likes to play over to the squad.

Things have not gone as to plan for Kamada as he or the supporters would like.

Although he has very good technique, he has looked at times as if he is struggling to deal with the physicality in the Premier League.

He has also not found a settled position in the side and has been used as a number 10 and a number six.

He had a tough moment when he came on, giving the ball away in the lead-up to Aston Villa's equalising goal, but the 28-year-old went on to score the winner and you could see how much it meant to him.

Glasner said after the match that Kamada has looked "like he wants it too much" and the goal will give him a big boost.

Eberechi Eze and Adam Wharton both limped out of the match and the Eagles have a big game against Wolves on Saturday.

If either of those two are out, it provides a big chance for Kamada to come in and maybe get his Palace career going in the way he would like.

The bottom six teams in the Premier League all play one another on Saturday and with the way the season has gone so far, those fixtures are going to be big.

Winning these games and earning three points could at the end of the season be called the six-pointers.

When I played for Reading and we were fighting down the bottom of the league, these are the fixtures that we looked for because they are must-win games.

I am not sure Crystal Palace would have targeted these at the start of the season because they would have expected to have been higher in the league, but the newly promoted teams will have.

Wolves probably need the win the most because they wouldn't have expected to be second from bottom after nine games and they need to start picking up results.

It is a little bit more difficult for the promoted teams because they are still trying to adapt to the Premier League.

I don't think these results will necessarily define any team's season - as it so early on - but winning helps to break the rut and sometimes it becomes difficult for teams to know how to win when they aren't.

For all of these teams something has to adapt at some stage. You have to find a way to win a game, even if it is scruffy, and especially against those teams that are in and around you.

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Crystal Palace midfielder Will Hughes, speaking about the rise in confidence in the squad after Wednesday's Carabao Cup win over Aston Villa: "It was good, I think, coming off the back of a much-needed win on Sunday [against Tottenham] in the league. It was good to carry that momentum.

"We've said in the last couple of days that, especially today, that [win] means nothing if you don't repeat that intensity and the energy.

"The outcome can vary game to game, but as long as you keep those principles, you've got a good chance - and that happened.

"We're up for every game. It's just been a slow start in the league and confidence drops, and then you start [getting] in your shell.

"Thankfully, we needed that win to get people out of their shells and get us playing how we were at the end last season, and you can see that we were non-stop for 90 minutes, and deserved the win in the end."

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We asked for your thoughts after Wednesday's League Cup game between Aston Villa and Crystal Palace.

Here are some of your comments:

Aston Villa fans

David: Disappointed that the players weren’t able to step up to the level required. Emery had to rotate the team, recognising the Premier League and Champions League are our main priorities, but the starting 11 should have done better and especially in the second half. Let’s hope we can put a decent run together in the FA Cup.

Gary: Beaten in midfield by a more committed side. Villa wanted too much time and were second best on too many occasions.

Steve: Absolutely clueless. This was a team that hadn’t played together and at times they looked like they hadn’t even trained together. Highlight of the night was seeing Tyrone Mings return to the team as we’ll need him this season.

Cassie: Villa could have scored two or three goals in the opening 30 minutes but failed, which again shows why they must sign a proven striker. I would rather lose this game than a league game. This was a reality check and a wake up call.

Crystal Palace fans

Pedro: It's so nice to regain some momentum and self-belief. We're pressing again, closing down the opposition and finding space. Injuries aside, it was a great performance and a good way to go into the crucial game against Wolves.

Sprucey: Back to old fighting Palace. Despite the goal, Kamada is the only player that makes me nervous every time he has the ball. Shame some of the youngsters didn't get any minutes.

Ted: We've suffered but now we’re seeing a revival and I'm loving it.

Rob: Not much to cheer about for Palace fans. Kamada was abysmal until he scored and the team struggled to put three passes together. The hard-tackling Hughes was probably our best player. Despite constant reminders of how we miss Olise, the intelligent cohesion was lost when we sold Andersen and Wharton's form faded. More struggles ahead.

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Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner, speaking to the media about Eberechi Eze's injury after League Cup win over Aston Villa:

"It is a problem with the hamstring, we don't know how serious it is.

"But the muscle [injury] is not always the best information you can get. Ebs is too early to tell.

"He wanted to come off, he signalled to come off. He said it was not possible to carry on.

"I hope it is not too serious, but I don't know. It's not the best information I got today that Ebs had to leave the pitch.

"Adam is a more positive one because it is nothing new. We spoke about it many times, he has had groin problems for many months.

"We thought he needed a break today but he gave the thumbs up and said he was fine.

"But the pain got worse during the game so we had to make a second sub.

"Especially with the circumstances, I am very proud of the performance."

Marissa Thomas
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Crystal Palace recorded back-to-back wins for the first time this season as they reached the quarter-final stage of the Carabao Cup.

It is the first time since the 2011-12 campaign that Palace have reached this stage of the competition.

Eberechi Eze opened the scoring for Oliver Glasner's side and there will have been concern when he was withdrawn to injury but Daichi Kamada came on in his place and scored the winner for the away side.

Kamada looked lively during his substitute appearance, scoring his second goal in the competition this term, latching on to Diego Carlos's poor pass and unleashing a fierce low shot from the edge of the area.

The Japan international also struck a free-kick into the wall before firing the rebound over the bar and ran on to a loose ball before dragging his shot wide of the post.

Palace will travel to Arsenal in the next round the week commencing 16 December.

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The draw has been made for the Carabao Cup quarter finals, with eight Premier League clubs having made it through.

For the first time in 14 years it is an all Premier League quarter-final line-up, with ties including Tottenham hosting Manchester United and holders Liverpool travelling to Southampton.

Matches are scheduled to take place the week commencing 17 December.

All the fixtures are shown below:

Tottenham v Manchester United

Arsenal v Crystal Palace

Newcastle United v Brentford

Southampton v Liverpool

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The Carabao Cup quarter-final line-up will be completed on Wednesday, with the six remaining fourth-round ties being played.

• Brighton v Liverpool (19:30)

• Aston Villa v Crystal Palace

• Man Utd v Leicester

• Newcastle v Chelsea - listen on BBC Radio 5 Live

• Preston v Arsenal

• Tottenham v Man City (20:15) - listen on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

Kick-off times 19:45 GMT unless stated

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Alex Howell
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Crystal Palace's win against Tottenham was a huge moment in their season.

Going into the game without a win in eight Premier League matches, the pressure was starting to build on manager Oliver Glasner and around the club.

Glasner put Jean-Philippe Mateta back into the starting line-up and that decision paid off with the Frenchman scoring the only goal of the game.

The Palace boss looks to finally have found a starting XI that gives him a platform to work from.

Glasner said himself that his team's build-up had not been ideal with "late signings" who had "no pre-season together".

That is true of two members of Palace's back three in Trevoh Chalobah and Maxence Lacroix.

Chalobah and Lacroix have been named alongside Marc Guehi in Palace's back three for the past three matches and they seem to be forming a formidable partnership.

Lacroix in particular got many plaudits after the win against Spurs and it will be a big boost for the centre-back, who had a tricky start to life at Selhurst Park.

Palace have what can be billed as "winnable games" against Wolves and Fulham and the outlook on their season could be very different by the time the next international break comes around in a couple of weeks.