Oliver Glasner‘s Crystal Palace have began to choose up some factors, buying 4 factors of their final two Premier League video games.
This leaves the Eagles in seventeenth place, two factors outdoors the relegation zone, after their 2-2 draw towards Wolves this weekend.
Regardless of Wolves having 57% possession, Palace created the higher possibilities, taking 19 photographs in the course of the recreation, producing 4 massive possibilities, equating to 2.51 xG (anticipated targets). Wolves, however, generated 4 massive possibilities too, however solely equating to 1.53 xG.
There have been some poor performances in the course of the recreation for each side, however the Palace defenders do deserve credit score, as each their targets got here from central defenders, with Trevoh Chalobah scoring the primary within the sixtieth minute, and Marc Guehi scoring an equaliser within the 77th minute.
Chalobah and Guehi performances vs Wolves
The 2 Palace goalscorers have been closely concerned within the recreation, not solely scoring their targets but in addition having some massive moments (each constructive and damaging) when defending.
Chalobah was dribbled past three times in the course of the conflict, and likewise made an error resulting in the Wolves equaliser, making it 1-1 within the recreation.
Guehi has performed each single recreation for Palace, captaining the aspect on all 13 occasions, and scoring two targets already this season. Chalobah, who’s on mortgage from Chelsea, has solely simply secured his spot within the aspect, making 5 appearances for the Eagles up to now, totalling 448 minutes played.
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Chalobah and Guehi performances vs Wolves |
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Stat |
Chalobah |
Guehi |
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Objectives |
1 |
1 |
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Touches |
54 |
83 |
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Correct Passes |
23/32 |
54/63 |
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Lengthy Balls |
2/4 |
6/8 |
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Floor Duels Received |
3/6 |
2/2 |
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Aerial Duels Received |
1/2 |
3/6 |
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Clearances |
7 |
7 |
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Blocks |
1 |
0 |
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Interceptions |
3 |
1 |
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Tackles |
0 |
1 |
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Stats taken from Sofascore |
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The Palace captain was notably spectacular, successful 100% of his floor duels, while making 6/8 lengthy passes in the course of the recreation, and, after all, scoring the equaliser.
However there was one other Palace man who wasn’t fairly as sturdy within the duel, solely successful 11.1% of his floor duels in comparison with Guehi’s flawless tally.
Will Hughes’ efficiency in numbers
Awarded a 6/10 match rating by GIVEMESPORT for his efficiency towards Wolves, Will Hughes was a notable underperformer at Molineux on Saturday night.
He was notably poor in possession of the ball, losing possession 12 times, solely successful considered one of his 9 floor duels in the course of the recreation (11.1% success fee), and choosing up a yellow card.
This yellow card will see Hughes miss Palace’s subsequent recreation once they face Fulham subsequent week at Selhurst Park, which may see Cheick Doucoure restored to the aspect alongside Daichi Kamada, as Adam Wharton stays unavailable by harm.
Hughes had an 84% pass success however he accomplished simply considered one of his 4 cross makes an attempt and considered one of his three lengthy balls. On high of that, he failed with each of his dribble makes an attempt and was coincidentally dribbled previous on two events.
While the 29-year-old is a tough employee and places himself about in the midst of the park, the dearth of effectivity was obvious towards Wolves, and that is additional backed up by his metrics.
The reply for Glasner may current itself completely now although, as a extra attack-minded midfielder akin to Kamada, with inventive passing and dribbling qualities, might be partnered with the duelling monster of Doucoure, to offer steadiness in midfield within the absence of Wharton.
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