Four sides have won at Selhurst Park in the Premier League this season and Man City supporters will expect their side to become the fifth on Monday night.
City head to Crystal Palace as red-hot 1/3 favourites with a number of betting websites to maintain their six-point lead over Liverpool and get their revenge on Palace for defeat in the reverse fixture at the Etihad, while Palace are at 12 odds to repeat the trick.
However, City’s recent record against the Eagles is hardly stunning – they have won just four of the last eight meetings between these sides and Palace, backed by a raucous Selhurst Park crowd look primed to make life tough for the champions on Monday night.
Palace have recovered form a mid-season blip, losing only one of their last six Premier League matches and hauling themselves well clear of the danger zone. Their 2-0 win at Wolves last weekend was one of their best performances of the season not only because of the chances they created, but also because they limited the hosts to an xG of just 0.84.
Crystal Palace vs Man City prediction
Getting involved with Man City at 1.3 odds doesn’t make much appeal in what could be a much more difficult fixture than the odds imply. The hosts are averaging over 1.5 goals a game at Selhurst Park this season so the angle into this is probably goals.
It’s not too often in this division that we can back both teams to score at odds-against but we can get about 2.2 odds with that wager and it’s a perfectly feasible scenario.
