da dobrowin： Crystal Palace will find a way to stay in the Premier League this season, per The Athletic journalist Matt Woosnam.
What’s he said?
da pixbet： The Eagles lost 1-0 to Sheffield United on Saturday, meaning they have now gone six games without a Premier League win.
In that time, they strung together four successive draws, against Southampton, Norwich City, Arsenal and Manchester City, prior to defeats against the Saints and Chris Wilder’s side.
They are currently 13th in the Premier League, six points clear of 18th-placed West Ham United, and Woosnam insists that they have enough to remain in the top-flight.
He wrote in an Athletic Q&A: “It’s easy to forget that Sheffield United are newly-promoted because they have done so well this season. There is no shame in being defeated by a team that has just come up from the Championship given that they are managed well, have a good team of players who work together effectively and their system is also effective.
“The performance in the first-half was good, but failing to take chances, some of them not easy admittedly, was the downfall.
“I see Palace having enough to pick up the required points to stay up.
“It won’t be easy, it probably won’t be pretty, but they’ll do it, in my view.”
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Palace have more than enough to remain in the division, not least a relatively soft run of fixtures.
West Ham, for example, play Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Wolves, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea in their next seven games; the other clash comes against Southampton.
They could do with creating more chances – they have scored just 22 goals this season – but if they can start to hit the back of the net more regularly, they will be more than comfortable in the top-flight.
That, of course, is a big if; Roy Hodgson’s side are the lowest-scorers in the top-flight.
Do that, though, and they will surely be a Premier League team next season.
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