Crystal Palace and Sunderland are playing live on the Barclays English Premier League schedule on Monday and the game from Selhurst Park is live at 3 pm ET and streaming from the NBC Sports Live extra website as the EPL week finishes up with the last matchup and both teams right now are low in the league table standings and are looking to move up.
Crystal Palace comes into the matchup with defender Damien Delaney and James McArthur possible to return from suspension and an injury, while Sunderland striker Steven Fletcher will be on the pitch. Fletcher comes in after injuring his foot against Arsenal and that is a big addition back for the team and they will also have some players out for the matchup. Sunderland comes into the game knowing they have not won there in a couple decades and that makes things tough and even though both teams are down on the EPL table, this is a tough matchup.
Sunderland comes in after losing three straight matches and they are also dealing with a tough defeat in their last away match, which was an 8-0 loss against Southampton. Palace comes in after a loss against Chelsea in their last home game and they went 2-2 against West Brom following that matchup. Sunderland has not had much luck in Monday night matches either and it has been a decade since a win in one of those and that also adds to things for the team in the Premier League game.
Sunderland has not won against Crystal in the last five, drawing twice and losing three times and now they have the chance to bounce back. The team has not scored in many of those matches and they are looking for a better performance on Monday. The team hasn't won a match away against the Eagles in the past 30 years and that was back in '95 and now they are hoping for a better result here on Monday.
Palace has played in three high scoring matchups on Mondays in their last games on this way and while there have been 17 goals in those games, they haven't won any of them. The history is on their side against Sunderland, but that doesn't mean they can take things for granted in this game. Sunderland has not won away yet in the EPL and they have now drawn two and lost two of those matches and this comes after they won away against Chelsea and Man United last season.
Sunderland comes in after some tough results and they are at 18th in the league standings. The team has been hit 10-0 in the past two games against Arsenal and Southampton and they last won at home against Stoke City and now have Crystal before Everton. Crystal comes in at 16th in the league standings and they have Man United coming up ahead of Liverpool and that comes after the team had a loss with Chelsea and a draw with West Brom. The teams now matchup for the Monday EPL match to end the week.
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