The Crystal Palace Courier
Match4 Nov 2026
Crystal Palace through in the cup
A 2‑1 win over Middlesbrough, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Walter Benítez keeps Crystal Palace in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Crystal Palace
Ismaïla Sarr was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market9 Nov 2026
Brennan Johnson wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Crystal Palace hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Match7 Nov 2026
Jean-Philippe Mateta sends Crystal Palace past Burnley
It finished 3‑1, and it was Jean-Philippe Mateta’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Crystal Palace.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A masterclass from Justin Devenny
Marked 8.92 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
One of those days for Maxence Lacroix
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.88, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
One of those days for Jean-Philippe Mateta
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.80, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Ismaïla Sarr runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Jaílson
- Squad Crystal Palace count the cost of losing Sean Somade
- Loan watch Jemiah Umolu has seen enough of Leeds United