Crystal Palace The Eagles won 16 penalties, more than any other side, in the Championship last season, including the one in the play-off final that took them to the Premier League. The last time Palace opened up a Premier League season with a home match at Selhurst Park, they lost 6-1 to Liverpool in 1994-95. Both Palace and their opposition have scored in all four of the Eagles' opening-day fixtures in the Premier League. Tottenham This will be the 16th time Tottenham have played away from home in their opening Premier League game, a competition-record. They have only managed to win two of their last 12 opening-day fixtures (W2, D4, L6). Tottenham scored 16 goals from outside the box in the top-flight last season, the most in the top flight. Gareth Bale was responsible for nine of them. Their total of 72 points last season was the highest ever Premier League total recorded by a team finishing outside the top four. In the 2010-11 season that would have been enough for Spurs to finish second. Tottenham and Swansea were the only clubs not to be awarded a single penalty kick last season - the first time this has happened since Charlton Athletic in 2004-05.
I'd love to see the Glaziers relegated with an all time record low points tally. Unfortunately, for all that 'olly is slightly barking, he seems to be able to draw the best out of average/mediocre players with his us against the world mentality. I can see them staying up and I can see them starting with an early upset against Spurs. Let's hope not!
Only Gayle (who has never played in PL) added to the starting line-up from last season... given their end of season form, it looks top-half Championship at best.
Campana who couldn't get a game at Sevilla, (Lemon) Marange who was being farmed out by Bordeaux and Chamakh on the bench lol. Where are Thomas and Bolasie?
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£4.5 mil was crazy money.
I mean we are on fire at the minute aren't we.
The Eagles won 16 penalties, more than any other side, in the Championship last season, including the one in the play-off final that took them to the Premier League.
The last time Palace opened up a Premier League season with a home match at Selhurst Park, they lost 6-1 to Liverpool in 1994-95.
Both Palace and their opposition have scored in all four of the Eagles' opening-day fixtures in the Premier League.
Tottenham
This will be the 16th time Tottenham have played away from home in their opening Premier League game, a competition-record. They have only managed to win two of their last 12 opening-day fixtures (W2, D4, L6).
Tottenham scored 16 goals from outside the box in the top-flight last season, the most in the top flight. Gareth Bale was responsible for nine of them.
Their total of 72 points last season was the highest ever Premier League total recorded by a team finishing outside the top four. In the 2010-11 season that would have been enough for Spurs to finish second.
Tottenham and Swansea were the only clubs not to be awarded a single penalty kick last season - the first time this has happened since Charlton Athletic in 2004-05.
Unfortunately, for all that 'olly is slightly barking, he seems to be able to draw the best out of average/mediocre players with his us against the world mentality.
I can see them staying up and I can see them starting with an early upset against Spurs.
Let's hope not!
LINEUP, BOOKINGS (0) & SUBSTITUTIONS (0)
Crystal Palace
01 Speroni
02 Ward
19 Gabbidon
21 Moxey
27 Delaney
08 Dikgacoi
10 Garvan
11 Dobbie
15 Jedinak
18 Wilbraham
16 Gayle
Campana who couldn't get a game at Sevilla, (Lemon) Marange who was being farmed out by Bordeaux and Chamakh on the bench lol. Where are Thomas and Bolasie?
LINEUP, BOOKINGS (0) & SUBSTITUTIONS (0)
Crystal Palace
01 Speroni
02 Ward
19 Gabbidon
21 Moxey
27 Delaney
08 Dikgacoi
10 Garvan
11 Dobbie
15 Jedinak
18 Wilbraham
16 Gayle
Substitutes
25 Alexander
03 Marange
06 Campana
12 O'Keefe
20 Williams
09 Phillips
29 Chamakh
Tottenham Hotspur
25 Lloris
02 Walker
03 Rose
05 Vertonghen
20 Dawson
08 Paulinho
19 Dembele
22 Sigurdsson
07 Lennon
09 Soldado
21 Chadli
Substitutes
24 Friedel
04 Kaboul
16 Naughton
15 Capoue
17 Townsend
28 Carroll
18 Defoe
Not having their best player in Zaha won't help either - he really was the difference in the play-off final.
Would love to be thumped every week in the prem for the money they're getting
"Let the games begin" *cringe*