Crystal Palace v Tottenham Hotspur 10.11.2018 // 5.30pm
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Inside palace
Crystal Palace v Tottenham Hotspur Saturday 10th November, 5:30pm
Directors Steve Parish (Chairman) David Blitzer, Joshua Harris Chief Executive Phil Alexander
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Programme Editor Jonathon Rogers
Graphic Design
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Billy Cooke, Luke Thomas
Contributors Jonathon Rogers,
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James Woodroof, Terry Byfield, Ian King, Dominic Fifield, Chris Smith, Chris Waters, Grace Cullen, Ben Mountain, Alan Russell
Photography Neil Everitt, Sebastian Frej, Reuters, Pinnacle, Rex Features, Tara Hook
Printer Bishops Printers
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10 TODAY'S GAME
Crystal Palace v Tottenham // Saturday 10th November // Selhurst Park
Today's game After claiming a point against Arsenal last time out in SE25, Palace will be hoping to achieve their first home win of the campaign against more north London opposition this evening. However, Tottenham have been formidable on their travels throughout 2018, and last weekend’s victory against Wolves was their 11th league success away from Wembley since the turn of the year. They have collected more points on the road this term than anyone else, with six wins and just one defeat. While they have done well to cling onto the coattails of the Premier League’s three unbeaten sides and reach the League Cup quarter-finals, Mauricio Pochettino’s team have struggled in the UEFA Champions League, and with 12 minutes remaining of their game against PSV Eindhoven on Tuesday night they were heading out of the competition. However, two goals from Harry Kane has rekindled hope, but games with Inter Milan and Barcelona remain. The Eagles have found points hard to come by in recent meetings with the Lilywhites, who have won each of the six straight encounters, but if recent history is anything to go by, then expect late goals this evening. Only one strike in the past 26 scored in Premier League clashes between Palace have Spurs came in the first half – a fact that bodes well for the Eagles as five of their last seven have been netted after half-time.
luka milivojevic has taken the most (11) and scored the most (nine) penalties in the Premier League since the start of 2017/18.
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Previous encounters:
Erik Lamela has had a hand in 11 goals in his last 13 appearances in all competitions (8 goals, 3 assists).
Head 2 head
One to watch:
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Palace wins Tottenham wins draws
Form guide: Palace have lost their last six top-flight games against Spurs; they have never lost to a single opponent in seven straight matches. Tottenham have won their last five league London derbies, they last had a longer run in the top-flight between 1950 and 1951.
Last Time Out Spurs 2-1 PSV EINDHOVEN 22. Paulo Gazzaniga 24. Serge Aurier 6. Davinson Sรกnchez 4. Toby Alderweireld 33. Ben Davies 8. Harry Winks 23. Christian Eriksen 27. Lucas Moura
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20. Dele Alli
11. Erik Lamela
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2. Kieran Trippier
10. Harry Kane
harry kane has scored 24 goals in 37 league London derbies, at a ratio of 0.65 per game. He has three in eight against the Eagles.
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Palace have been blessed with some illustrious left-backs in their history, but perhaps none have ever played the game the way Patrick van Aanholt does. One of the league’s deadliest defenders speaks to Ben Mountain about his path from an unknown teenager in a foreign land to becoming a regular name on Premier League scoresheets.
40 PALACE REMEMBERS
A GOALSCORER TURNED GOALKEEPER
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omorrow sees the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day and the end of the Great War. Palace, like almost every sports club across the country, lost players during the conflict such as prolific scorer John 'Ginger' Williams, but many other employees were also affected. As a child in the 1960s, I grew up knowing that my grandfather Charles Hill had been Palace’s reserve team goalkeeper right after the war. It was a matter of family pride, especially for his widow who had a photo of him on her mantelpiece in his woollen goalkeeper’s jumper leaning against a goalpost. He played as an amateur, meaning that when he returned from the war to take up his old job at London County Council, he would occasionally receive an open postcard on a Thursday to inform him he was required to play for Palace, signed by manager and club secretary Edmund Goodman. However in the days before substitutes and back-up keepers,
Charles would never feature for the first-team but did go on to play for Brentford and Orient. As he had died before I was born, I grew up only knowing he was a very good amateur goalkeeper. It was therefore surprising, after looking through boxes in my parents’ loft in the 1980s, to find an old ledger from before the war detailing seasonal stats for a club named only as SFC playing in Marlow Road, Anerley. In it I found Charles listed as club captain, alongside what were to be two of his future brothers-in-law, yet he was playing centre-forward and banging in goals seemingly for fun: two, three or four a game! It puzzled me why a player scoring like a pre-discovery Ian Wright was known only as a goalkeeper in family history, and it was not until after my father had died that the subject happened to crop up while talking with my uncle, who chuckled: “Oh! But didn’t you know? He was gassed in the war – he was never able to run again, so he could only play in goal after that!” In fact, Charles had played pre-war as a goalkeeper for Dulwich Hamlet and Brentford, however further research found that he was gassed in March 1916 in France - hardly a couple of months after having been moved across the Channel to Flanders and almost to the day of his 26th birthday. He was returned to England to recover but was never fit enough again for active
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IN MEMORIAM This Remembrance weekend, Crystal Palace pay tribute those players who represented the club and tragically perished during World War I.
service, remaining a Training Sergeant in the Corps of Signals until his demob in 1919. Unable to run any real distance, any thought he might have had of playing outfield again was gone, and so bad were the effects of the gas on his airways and lungs that he had to breathe brine in through his nose and out through his mouth daily to help his red-raw airways heal or stay free of infection. He did that until his death in 1955 aged 65. In the current day, it is impossible to imagine that the club would suggest to Wilfried Zaha or Christian Benteke to continue as the club’s thirdchoice goalkeeper after a significant lung ailment stopped them being able to run. However, back then all those who returned from conflict, either wounded or struggling with the horrors they had witnessed, tried to regain a sense of normality by playing football, and honour those that did not, or physically could not, return home. And for that, a century later, we shall remember them.
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- Norman Wood -
- Joseph Bulcock -
- Donald Bell -
- Edward Bell -
- George Smith -
- Richard Harker -
- John Williams -
- Edwin Myers -
60 THE GLORY YEARS
1988/89
Story of the
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busy October for the Eagles saw seven league fixtures and a League Cup tie packed into 28 days, starting with a home game against Plymouth Argyle when the ‘goal machine’ of Mark Bright and Ian Wright finally swung into action again with both getting on the scoresheet in the 4-1 victory. Three days later league leaders Ipswich Town were seen off 2-0 with the dynamic duo again getting the goals. The next Saturday witnessed one of the more bizarre matches in Palace’s history at another highflying team in Blackburn Rovers. After falling behind early on, Geoff Thomas equalised to leave the teams on level terms at the break, but incredibly the second half produced seven goals. Wright and Bright put Palace 3-1 up with 30 minutes left only for the referee to award Rovers a mystifying penalty which Howard Gayle converted. Following that, Simon Garner netted twice in a minute to give Rovers a 4-3 lead, only for Gary O’Reilly to head home John Pemberton’s free-kick to restore parity. Then in the last 30 seconds Colin Hendry stole it for the Lancashire side, leaving manager Steve Coppell fuming at the referee as all left the field of play. The second leg of the League Cup second round tie brought about a 2-0 win over Bristol City at Selhurst Park to record a 4-1 aggregate success, while the climb
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up the Second Division table continued at Bradford City three days later thanks to a solitary Wright strike in the 23rd minute. Latching onto an under-hit backpass, he rounded the Bantams keeper to fire into an empty net, while the defence held firm during the second half with Coppell’s men looking the more likely to score on the break.
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Wright then netted for the seventh-straight game a week later at home to Hull City but 60 seconds later Tigers winger Alex Dyer, a problem for Palace all afternoon, drew the sides level. Early in the second half injury struck Wright who had to hobble off with John Salako taking his place and Phil Barber moved into attack. His contribution to the team sometimes overlooked, Barber reminded supporters of his qualities as he produced a well-struck effort around the hour mark to put the Eagles in the lead once more, and then added a second to cement victory right at the death. The charge towards to the top six continued the following Tuesday when Oxford United came to Selhurst but Wright’s injury kept him out and Salako deputised. The visitors, under new manager Brian Horton, came to defend and with Palace repelling a number of chances it seemed to be working, that is until the 68th minute when a penalty was awarded for a handball by David Bardsley which was strenuously contested by the victim. Want-away winger Neil Redfearn emphatically put the spot-kick away for the
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only goal of the game and Palace moved into fifth place. A gruelling month ended on Saturday 29th with a trip to the Victoria Ground to face mid-table Stoke City, still without Wright, and again the Eagles started sluggishly and conceded after just 57 seconds. Two minutes into the second half Bright took advantage of a slip by a Potters defender and, collecting a pass from Redfearn, chipped the ball over the keeper from 30 yards. Palace were then in the driving seat but a lack of concentration at a free-kick 20 minutes from time allowed Stoke to claim all three points, despite a late rally.
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Seasonal Statistics Best Passing Accuracy
Most Interceptions
Max Meyer
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Top Goal Scorers 01. Wilfried Zaha
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Overall Discipline
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Total Goals
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Shooting Accuracy
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Hit Woodwork
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Shots on Target
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Shots off Target
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Pass Success Rate
Player In Focus
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Average Possession
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Andros Townsend has created the most chances for teammates so far this season, all from open play.
Most Aerial Duels Won
Most Passes
Christian Benteke
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