Crystal Palace (7 wins, 9 losses, 12 draws) welcomes Manchester City (22-3-3) to Selhurst Park Stadium Monday. Kickoff is set for 4 p.m. ET. Below, we preview the Crystal Palace vs. Manchester City odds and lines, and make our best EPL bets, picks and predictions.
After a thrilling weekend of EPL action, fans will be topped off by the league-leading Manchester City taking on Crystal Palace, a club that’s sitting in 11th place on the table.
For Palace, it does have a positive goal differential, having scored 39 and having allowed 38 in 28 matches. Palace is actually unbeaten in 3 straight games as well. It’ll be down M James McArthur who has 16 appearances on the season.
City will enter this match at near-full strength. It is coming off a midweek draw with Sporting, advancing in the Champions League via a 5-0 aggregate in the two-leg Round of 16.
In 28 games, Man City has scored 68 goals and has allowed a league-low 18. It has won 2 straight games since losing to the Tottenham Hotspurs 3-2 on February 19.
Crystal Palace vs. Manchester City: Odds, picks and predictions
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- Money line: Crystal Palace +900 (bet $100 to win $900) | Manchester City -320 (bet $320 to win $100) | Draw +430
- Over/Under: 2.5 (O: -130 | U: +105)
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Prediction
Manchester City 3, Crystal Palace 1
Money line (ML)
PASS.
Betting on a -320 favorite isn’t typically wise.
Crystal Palace has lost just 4 of its 14 games at home this season. However, Man City is one of the two teams that are head and shoulders above the rest of the field, and betting against them isn’t wise either.
I typically like to couple a money line pass with a bet on either both teams to score or both teams not to score, but in this situation, I don’t favor either and would prefer to play the total as my favorite bet.
Over/Under (O/U)
BET on OVER 2.5 (-130).
In 28 games, Crystal Palace has been held without a goal in 8 of them. Palace has held its opponent scoreless in just 7 of them. It also beat Man City 2-0 earlier in the year, one of just 3 City losses on the season.
As for City, it has scored 2+ goals in 18 matches this season, having only played in 28. It has gone over 2.5 goals 18 times. It averages 2.46 goals per game.
At full strength, M Kevin de Bruyne and F Raheem Sterling should be active and ready to roll. City should be able to break down a mid-tier Palace defense. There should be an abundance of goals in this battle.
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