Crystal Palace v Burnley: Premier League – live!
29-Jun-2020 18:43:46 | The Guardian
“Hey Rob,” says J.R. in Illinois. “I just wanted to warn you, in case you weren’t aware, that Simon Hooper couldn’t referee his way out of a paper bag. He botched his first Premier League match (8 August 2015) so badly that he didn’t get another Premier League assignment until 31 January 2018.”
I’m sensing rancour.
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Jay Rodriguez has failed a fitness test, so it looks like Burnley will play with Dwight McNeil as a No10. They are only able to name seven substitutes, and two of them are keepers.
Crystal Palace (4-1-4-1) Guaita; Ward, Dann, Cahill, van Aanholt; Milivojevic; Townsend, Kouyate, McArthur, Zaha; Ayew.
Substitutes: Hennessey, Sakho, Tavares, Woods, Mitchell, Meyer, McCarthy, Riedewald, Perrick.
Hello and welcome to the battle of the overachievers. By rights, and certainly by net spend, Crystal Palace and Burnley should be in a relegation battle. But they both sit comfortably in mid-table, having already reached the magic 40-point mark, and are only three points off a potential Europa League place. A win for either side would move them up to eighth, behind Tottenham Hotspur only on goal difference.
Palace had won four in a row before Liverpool duffed them up at Anfield last week. Burnley have lost only once since January, an even more emphatic defeat at the Etihad a week ago. Apart from one heavy defeat apiece, both teams have been in terrific form. There was even a bit of recognition for Sean Dyche when he was named Premier League Manager of the Month in February.
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