LONDON, ENGLAND – DECEMBER 13: Jose Mourinho, Manager of Tottenham Hotspur. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)
Crystal Palace travels to north London Sunday night to tackle Tottenham Hotspur in a match seemingly extra necessary to Spurs than the Eagles. Both Tottenham and Crystal Palace appear comfortably above relegation with Palace 11 factors north of 18th positioned Fulham. Spurs are an extra eight factors forward of Palace. With Palace comfortably midtable and Spurs trying to nonetheless attain the highest 4, Spurs seemingly want the factors extra however meaning little in skilled soccer. So what can we anticipate when Spurs host Palace?
Crystal Palace Like Tottenham are Unpredictable
This season has been fairly maddening for lots of followers for lots of causes. Few groups have actually discovered true consistency throughout this Covid impacted marketing campaign, and that is very true for each Crystal Palace and Tottenham. Both London groups have been persistently inconsistent this season.
Regardless of the outcome – a win, loss, or draw – Crystal Palace has not had three consecutive matches with the identical final result all season lengthy. After consecutive attracts, odds must be in opposition to an excellent final result. Palace beginning the season by successful two straight then misplaced two in a row and has been on a see-saw trip ever since. Good stretches like beating West Brom by 4 objectives and drawing each Tottenham and West Ham are then adopted with stinkers just like the 0-7 drubbing they took by the hands of Liverpool.
Palace beats Wolves and Newcastle then loses to Leeds and Burnley getting shut out twice. All this mentioned Palace is now on their third, three-game unbeaten run. All three streaks have included 1 win and two attracts. Each of the 2 earlier runs was adopted up by hammerings to Liverpool and Manchester City by a mixed 11 objectives to nil. Does this imply Spurs will stomp throughout Palace? Not seemingly, Tottenham has been simply as inconsistent as we all know. Beyond two unpredictable sides which can produce all or nothing, what can we anticipate within the match?
