The Crystal Palace Courier
Squad8 Nov 2027
74 days out for Walter Benítez after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Crystal Palace will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Nobody could get near Yeremy Pino
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
No sign of nerves from Babis Kostoulas at 20 — 7.80
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Babis Kostoulas did not need any: 7.80, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market8 Nov 2027
Simone Giordano is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Crystal Palace is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Crystal Palace
Quinten Timber and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Words at Crystal Palace training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chris Richards is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
No hiding place for Jørgen Strand Larsen
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jørgen Strand Larsen, and the manager let it.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Makai Bernard-Ferguson out for 44 days
The medical room confirms 44 days on the sidelines for Makai Bernard-Ferguson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match6 Nov 2027
Crystal Palace caught on 92 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Leeds United scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
In brief
- The dugout Crystal Palace keep their word to Dwight McNeil
- Match Honours even between Crystal Palace and Leeds United
- The dugout Michael Scott on the point