Crystal Palace vs Manchester United – Premier League: Live score, team news and updates as Red Devils look to return to sixth position

Players are warming up ahead of the 8pm kick-off. Who will leave happiest tonight?

Interim CEO Jean-Claude Blanc has arrived at Selhurst Park for this evening’s kick off.

Since the start of the calendar year, Manchester United’s defensive figures have rivalled the worst teams in the Premier League. It feels more like a relegation campaign, not one that could still end in European qualification.

Can they shore up their backline for their final games of the season?

The Eagles have a record of 29 home goals in a Premier League season, set in 2017-18.

They’re currently on 28, so a goal tonight would equal that record, and two would break it.

They also host Aston Villa on the final day of the season in their quest for a new Crystal Palace home record.

The visitors have posted a behind-the-scenes video from Selhurst Park – showing Evans and co will wear white shirts for the game.

We hope that we can keep this momentum. It is up to us how we work during the week. The players could relax for four days and yesterday we started preparing.

They look ready, I could see how focused they are in training. We’re four games unbeaten and the goal is staying unbeaten until the end of the season.

Captain Bruno Fernandes misses out entirely, so Casemiro has the armband for Man United.

Jonny Evans comes in for the injured Maguire, while Mason Mount makes his first time in seven months.

It’s only the sixth time that Eze and Olise have been named in the same starting XI – and they can support the flying Mateta up front.

Centre-back Marc Guehi is also named among the substitutes for the first time since February.

And team news is next…

Manchester United have been hampered by their injuries this season – with Maguire joining a long list of issues for the club.

Several of their long-term absentees have been left-sided defenders, and Ashley Young noted that you have to ‘factor that in’.

He added: ‘There should be players able to come in and take those positions. You can have players that come in and take those roles.’

Of late, Onana’s gone long with over 50 per cent of his balls. That is not right for a club of the stature of Man United.

If you think of the club the size of Man United, you’d expect them to be higher up this table.

Team news for both sides coming in the next 15 minutes or so.

However, Man United will be without Harry Maguire, who is ruled out for three weeks after picking up a muscle injury in training.

Its touch-and-go whether he’ll be back in time for the FA Cup final at the end of May – although it is not expected to jeopardise his role at the Euros.

Crystal Palace have never done the league double over the Red Devils.

But Man United have failed to win on their last three PL visits to Selhurst Park, drawing two and losing one.

Erik ten Hag’s side have a rotten record in London this term, with defeats at Spurs, Arsenal, West Ham and Chelsea. Can they avoid five capital losses in one season?

The reverse league game was played all the way back on the last day of September, and it was a happy trip for the Eagles.

Joachim Andersen hooked a great finish into the top-right hand corner of Onana’s net from ten yards out.

That game’s only goal came in the 25th minute. Will something similar happen tonight?

For the visitors tonight, it’s a crunch encounter in their bid for European football.

If Erik ten Hag stays in his job – and the question marks have been flying for some time now – he wants another big-spending summer to try and help them push up the table and challenge those at the summit.

Starting in 8th place, a win today would move them up to 6th – but a draw would only take them back above Chelsea, after the Blues thumped West Ham yesterday.

Back to one of Moyes’ former clubs in Man United. The Red Devils face a tough challenge tonight against Crystal Palace.

The hosts will be one of the teams hoping the season doesn’t end after a fine run of form under Glasner.

The Eagles are on their longest unbeaten run in the Premier League season having gone four matches without defeat.

The run includes victories over Liverpool, Newcastle and West Ham, as well as a draw with Fulham last time out.

Palace are bidding to win a third consecutive home match this evening.

Sticking with West Ham for the moment, let me point you in the direction of Mail Sport’s chief sports writer Oliver Holt’s latest column.

He writes that the Hammers handling of Moyes’ exit has been ‘grubby and unpleasant’ given his success at the club.

Holt also questions whether West Ham should be careful about the appointment of Julen Lopetegui given his track record.

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Big but expected news from across London.

West Ham have just confirmed David Moyes will leave the club when his contract expires at the end of the season.

Mail Sport reported earlier today that Julen Lopetegui has agreed a deal to become West Ham’s next head coach.

What better way for the bank holiday weekend to end with a Monday evening Premier League fixture.

Man United’s trip to Selhurst Park could prove a vital one in the race for European qualification, which has been hotting up in the final weeks of the campaign.

Erik ten Hag’s side currently lie eighth in the table but know victory this evening would move them ahead of Chelsea and Newcastle. The Red Devils could also move to three points of a stuttering Spurs side.

Crystal Palace will be no pushovers though with the Eagles enjoying a strong end to the season under Oliver Glasner.

Stay with us for all the team news and action from Selhurst Park.