Tottenham v Palace: Line-ups, stats and preview

Tottenham v Palace match preview

Tottenham come down to earth on Sunday after one of the most memorable nights of their season when Ange Postecoglou’s side host Crystal Palace in the Premier League.

Spurs overcame a tricky-looking trip to history-makers Bodo/Glimt in style on Thursday, knocking the first Norwegian club to reach a European club semi-final out of the Europa League with a 2-0 win and 5-1 aggregate victory.

The result means Tottenham will face Manchester United in the final in Bilbao on May 21 (20:00 BST), pitting two teams who have had dismal domestic seasons against each other for the right to play in the 2025/26 Champions League.

In the context of Tottenham’s celebrations on the pitch afterwards and the air of potential redemption around the final, a reminder of the fact that they are 16th in the top flight and have lost 19 league games this season is something of an inconvenience.

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Palace, too, could be forgiven for not being fully focused with their FA Cup final against Manchester City coming six days later (16:30 BST).

The Eagles are eight points above Tottenham in 12th as part of a respectable season, with any chance of European qualification through their league position all but mathematically over.

“The better our performance is at Tottenham, the better our confidence will be for the final,” said Palace manager Oliver Glasner.

“It’s always the performance that influences the next game a little bit. This performance will influence the confidence and the belief for the final.”

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Tottenham v Crystal Palace team news

Tottenham forward Son Heung-min had been hopeful of returning from a foot injury in Bodo but did not feature and remains a doubt after missing seven games in total.

Spurs’ long injury list has improved but defender Radu Dragusin, playmaker James Maddison and midfielder Lucas Bergvall are out for the season.

Adam Wharton is out with ankle ligament damage the England international sustained during Palace’s 1-1 home draw against Nottingham Forest on Monday.

Glasner gave Wharton a 90% chance of playing in the FA Cup final but said the “pain is too much” for him to face Tottenham.

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Tottenham v Crystal Palace stats

Tottenham v Palace prediction

League matches in between important cup games are notoriously hard to call, and this encounter is particularly tough to predict because there is so much more at stake for both sides on the horizon beyond a largely inconsequential fixture.

Palace have lost their last eight visits to Tottenham and have not won away against them in the league since 1997, but they have had more than 72 hours’ extra recovery time and have drawn their last three top-flight games, while Spurs have taken one point from across their last four.

Three of Palace’s last seven league games have been score draws, with two finishing a goal apiece. Back that to be the scoreline again here.