Crystal Palace Face December Fixture Logjam After Carabao Cup Progress

Crystal Palace are facing nan imaginable of having to play 5 matches successful 11 days during December aft reaching nan Carabao Cup quarter-finals.

Oliver Glasner’s broadside recorded a third triumph of nan run complete Liverpool connected Wednesday to group up a repetition of past season’s Carabao Cup quarter-final pinch Arsenal. That lucifer is owed to return spot connected Tuesday 16 aliases Wednesday 17 December but pinch Palace scheduled to big nan Finnish broadside KuPS astatine connected 18 December successful their last Conference League convention shape fixture, nan necktie astatine nan Emirates Stadium looks definite to beryllium confirmed for nan Tuesday by nan EFL.

That would time off Palace facing 2 matches successful 54 hours fixed they are owed to look Manchester City astatine Selhurst Park successful nan Premier League connected 14 December astatine 2pm. That fixture was moved this period to Sunday to accommodate their Conference League crippled astatine Shelbourne connected Thursday 11 December.

The FA Cup winners are besides owed to play astatine Leeds connected 21 December successful nan Premier League and person commitments successful each midweek earlier then. The business is further analyzable by nan truth that Arsenal person 2 Champions League fixtures successful January and nan first legs of nan Carabao Cup semi-finals are owed to statesman connected 13 January.

Palace and Arsenal are understood to beryllium successful discussions pinch nan EFL but location appears to beryllium small wriggle room successful a congested schedule.

Tottenham avoided having to play Leyton Orient successful nan League Cup and Shkendija successful a Europa League qualifier successful nan abstraction of 48 hours successful 2020 aft nan erstwhile was called disconnected owing to a Covid outbreak astatine Orient and Spurs progressed to nan adjacent round.

Glasner has spoken astir Palace’s deficiency of squad extent fixed that they are competing successful 4 competitions for nan first clip and has concerns astir a hamstring wounded sustained by Eddie Nketiah that forced nan striker disconnected astatine half-time against Liverpool.

The Austrian complained astir nan scheduling of Palace’s FA Cup semi-final against Aston Villa successful May, erstwhile Unai Emery’s broadside had 24 hours much to retrieve from their preceding Premier League game, but said he was “shouting against nan upwind and cipher hears you”.