Palace win another corner, but Andros Townsend swings it straight into the clutches of Karl Darlow.

Patrick van Aanholt has a really high-pitched shouty voice when he's not happy about something. There are dogs near Selhurst Park all currently wondering why it wasn't a Palace throw-in off Javier Manquillo.

Fernandez is the first man in the book. It is given for a body check in Jeffrey Schlupp.

Soon after, Joelinton has another sight of goal but he curls his effort from 20 yards straight into the gloves of Vicente Guaita.

Newcastle are by far the more productive side. Wilson is away down the right but his low cross is taken away from Joelinton by a defender's toe. Miguel Almiron recovers the ball and does find Joelinton, but the big striker heads wide.

Ayew showing signs of getting into the game. He exchanges passes with Eze, but can't quite gather the return ball 40 yards from the Newcastle goal.

"Well played" shouts one of the Palace staff as the ball is spread over to Nathaniel Clyne on the right. He is very quickly closed down, though, to end any hope the home side had of breaking. Jordan Ayew then tries to force his way into the box but trips Federico Fernandez.

Palace win the first corner from their first attack.

Jonjo Shelvey gets his head to it at the near post to send the ball spinning away from danger.

Palace are allowing Newcastle the ball, letting them ping square balls across their own defence. They give the visitors too much space, though, allowing them to feed the ball to Joelinton, who eyes up a screamer from 25 yards and instead finds seats deep in the stand behind the goal.

It has been a positive start from Steve Bruce's side. They've already had more men making forward runs into deep areas than they did for pretty much the entirety of the Chelsea game.

First opening and it is the away side creating it as Joelinton charges down the left and crosses low towards Callum Wilson. Gary Cahill slides in to deny the striker making a telling touch at the near post.

Jonjo Shelvey looks like he wants to make up for lost time, snapping into a couple of early tackles.

The players show their appreciation for Diego Maradona with a minute of applause, again show their commitment to Black Lives Matter by taking the knee before the whistle sounds to get us under way.

Let's keep an open mind. This could be the game of the season.

Opta inform us that this is the first meeting between Crystal Palace and Newcastle on a Friday since May 1973, an Anglo-Italian Cup semi-final match at Selhurst Park.

Ah, the Anglo-Italian Cup. Just Google it, kids.

Not to be outdone, Gracenote have this to add... Palace are winless in all 12 of their top flight matches played on Friday (W0-D5-L7). It is the most top flight fixtures played by a team on a specific weekday without ever winning.

Crystal Palace are the first team to name four players (McArthur, Dann, Guaita, Cahill) aged 33+ in their starting XI for a PL game since WBA v Southampton in February 2018.

Their starting XI's average is 30 years and 182 days, the oldest this season for a Premier League game.

With age comes experience. There are 2,068 Premier League appearances between Crystal Palace's starting XI, the most for a team in an English top-flight game this season.

On the plus side for Steve Bruce's lads, their tally of 11 points is more than they had after nine games of the previous two seasons combined.

But the Magpies have recorded just 71 attempts on goal and 21 shots on target this season. Both are the lowest totals in the division.

And they have their own issues when missing a star man. Since the start of last season, Newcastle have won just one of their 13 Premier League games without Allan Saint-Maximin featuring (D4 L8), drawing three and losing six of nine away games without him.

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In amongst the long list of clubs Steve Bruce has managed during his career is one Crystal Palace, but you'd be forgiven for forgetting all about it.

He was actually only there for a few months at the start of the 2001-02 season, during which he led them for 17 games and had them top of the second tier.

But then along came Birmingham to coax him away and subsequently employ him for his longest managerial stint so far - 254 games.

City would end up winning promotion via the play-offs that year as Palace finished 10th. You'd forgive the Palace fans for having a tiny grudge.

There is good news and bad news for Palace.

A victory on Friday would ensure the Eagles eclipse their Premier League club record of 15 points after the opening 10 games. So that's good. As is the fact that Roy Hodgson's side have led for 395 minutes this term, second only to leaders Tottenham.

However, Palace are also winless in all 12 of their top-flight league matches played on a Friday (D5, L7). And they have lost 14 of their past 16 Premier League fixtures without Wilfried Zaha.

That's bad.

OK, so recent history isn't the most promising, with the past seven meetings having only produced seven goals in total.

It does favour the home side, though, with Newcastle winless in their five most recent Premier League visits to Selhurst Park, drawing three times and losing twice.

Palace won this fixture 1-0 last season, with Patrick van Aanholt netting the only goal.