Preview
Both Crystal Palace and Aston Villa are on the hunt for successive wins when they face Selhurst Park on Tuesday night.
Palace, which occupies the 13th, saw Fulham 2-0 at Craven Cottage on Saturday, before Villa got a 2-1 return for Chelsea to get them eighth, just two points from the top four.
The Eagles have better yielded their home this season, having won their last five games in all matches on their travels, and have only won two Premier League wins in southern London this season.
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Taking this, the villa doesn’t exactly have the best record this season. They have only received 14 points in 12 long matches this season, compared to 28 in 15 games in Villa Park.
Despitr, who is struggling to match last season’s shape, remains well in the mixture for a second consecutive Champions League qualification and a victory in South London will enhance their chances and stretch their undefeated course in five games.
Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Team News
The palace is still without the injured trio of Joel Ward, Cheick Doucoure and Chadi Riad, but Oliver Glasner has no new issue to face.
Jean-Philippe Mateta will hope to continue his excellent form this season after 14 times as he starts alongside Eberechi Eze, while Adam Wharton can start on the bench as Glasner continues to manage the recovery of medium injury .
Villa is without Ross Barkley, Boubacar Kamara, Amadou Onana, with Pau Torres also losing despite the reinforcement of a broken metatarsal recovery.
Morgan Rogers and Tyrone Mings will both be evaluated before the start after being hit by Chelsea.
Marco Asensio and Marcus Rashford could start both after the latter created the first two goals in the Blues win.
