Crystal Palace will take on Norwich City in the Premier League matchday 20 at Selhurst Park on Tuesday. The kick-off is at 17:00 CEST.

Preview

Just two days after suffering a 3-0 defeat at Tottenham, Crystal Palace will be looking to return to winning ways in a home encounter with rock-bottom Norwich. Even though the Eagles have shown some signs of progress since Patrick Vieira's appointment this summer, they continue to struggle with consistency throughout the 2021/22 campaign in the English top flight. Palace have only claimed one victory in their last seven PL games to find themselves in 12th in the table with 20 points ahead of Tuesday's clash.

The Canaries, meanwhile, were destroyed 5-0 by Arsenal at Carrow Road on Boxing Day which was their fourth straight loss in the league. As mentioned, Norwich continue to sit at the very bottom of the table with 10 points and it looks like it'll take Dean Smith a miracle to save his new side from returning back to the Championship in 2021/22 season.

Team news

Aside from Vicente Guaita, Nathaniel Clyne, Luka Milivojevic, Michael Olise, Eberechi Eze and Christian Benteke who have all been ruled out due to positive Covid-19 tests, Wilfried Zaha will also miss the upcoming encounter after his sending-off against Spurs. Tim Krul, and Lukas Rupp, meanwhile, will not travel to Selhurst Park after testing positive for coronavirus lately while Grant Hanley, Andrew Omobamidele and Christoph Zimmermann will not help the Canaries this time around through injury.

Prediction

The absence of seven starting XI players certainly doesn't make Palace's life easier in their final game in 2021 but we'd still rather back Vieira's men to take all three points on Tuesday. Norwich have failed to score a single goal in each of their last four Premier League matches, so it would be a huge surprise if they manage to break the unwanted trend this time around.

Tip

Crystal Palace to win to nil at 2.56 with 1XBET.