Manchester United did not have to play particularly well to beat Crystal Palace on Sunday, and Eagles boss Oliver Glasner moaned afterwards about the club’s failure to bring players in over the summer.
When a manager does that, I start to wonder how long he will hang around. I get it – you have to leave when your stock is high, and Glasner’s certainly is at the moment.
He is right, though, because their squad is stretched. Glasner must have been listening to the Monday Night Club because I’ve been saying the same thing since the start of the season, about how they are going to come a cropper because it is very difficult to compete without that depth.
I still think Palace will win this game though, because Burnley are in a bit of bother.
Scott Parker’s side don’t score enough goals so it was real blow for them to get level at Brentford with five minutes to go on Saturday and still get nothing from the game.
I have a feeling they will battle away here too, and then see Palace sneak it late on.
Sutton’s prediction: 0-1
Felix’s prediction: Palace also have played loads of games and I had a feeling they would struggle against Manchester United before they lost on Sunday. I still think they will win this one though. It feels like Burnley ship goals at the end of games, because they don’t quite last the pace. 1-3
Felix on being at Wembley when Palace won last season’s FA Cup: I had so many mad journeys and adventures in the book, and it almost became about finding the game that had the story behind it that had nothing to do with football, but was about the people I met or even me personally.
But I do have to say that being among the Palace fans at Wembley was honestly the closest thing I’ve seen to an actual religious experience.
The sense that they were doing something by winning their first major trophy that their parents or grandparents who supported Palace couldn’t see, was incredible. It captured the very essence of the book because I was looking for the magic of the FA Cup and I found it right there. Even talking about it now, I still get shivers.
AI’s prediction: 1-1
