Crystal Palace against Fredrikstad: line-ups, statistics and overview

Crystal Palace against Fredrikstad Match Overview

The European beginnings of Crystal Palace do not appear in the competition that the Eagles wanted to follow their demotion to the conference League, but the opportunity remains historic for the Premier League club and a chance to take control of their equality to decide who will reach the competition itself.

Oliver Glasner’s team is hot favorites to beat opponents who are eighth in the eliteer in Norway after 19 matches of their national season, after winning the Norwegian Cup for a 12th joint record to qualify for Europe.

“Each player prefers to play a game in training,” said Glasner, chatting with a busy schedule after his team attracted 0-0 to Chelsea during his opening match of the Premier League season on Sunday, with a trip to Nottingham Forest to come less than 72 hours after meeting Fredrikstad.

“The players are completely recovered – you can see this (in training) – so there is no reason to make a lot of changes.

“This is how we want to be, taking each game seriously and always showing our personality. If we do this, we know that we can succeed. ”

Back in Europe for the first time since 2009, Fredrikstad was eliminated from the qualification of the Europa League thanks to a 3-1 defeat at home and a 2-0 defeat against the Danish finalists of Superliga Midtjylland.

In the 208th in the coefficient ranking of the UEFA club, they are the least low Norwegian team and 120 positions under the palace.

Manager Andreas Hagen, 39, was appointed towards the end of a season during which the aristocrats finished sixth and had the fourth highest attendance of the division, of 8,490.

They have won two of their last 14 games in all competitions, although one of them was in their last home League match, coming from behind to beat the second-small stromsgodset with a winner of the 88th minute of the Ellsbor attacker on the accommodation Emil Holten.

The other victory along the way was memorable, beating Molde – their victims in the Norwegian Cup final – 4-2 at home, having been 2-0 behind in the 80th minute.

Crystal Palace against Fredrikstad Team News

Central defender Chadi Riad, midfielder Cheick Doucoure and striker Daichi Kamada all left for the palace with knee injuries.

The rear right Caleb Kporha has a back problem and transmits Eddie Nketiah (hamstrings) and Matheus Franca (muscle) also lacks.

Palace would be widely reported in negotiations with Tottenham on Ebelechi Eze, but the attacker is likely to start again, just like Captain Marc Guehi despite the interest of Liverpool.

Johannes Nunez joined Fredrikstad from the seventh KFUM for a reported amount of around £ 580,000 on Tuesday.

The central defender Bragi Skaret has moved in the opposite direction, landed in Fredrikstad an attacker responsible for eight goals and four assists in 16 appearances in all competitions this season.

“I have always dreamed of participating in the Norwegian football summit and we can do it here,” said the 28 -year -old Fredrikstad website. “Everything is in place here to compete with the best.”

The defender or midfielder Solomon Owusu, midfielder Joannes Bjartalid and striker Henrik Skogmbold came for the second stage against Midtjylland in place of Sortre Sorlokk, Daniel Eid and Holten.

Crystal Palace against Fredrikstad predicted programs

Starting Palais XI: Henderson, Munoz, Richards, Lacroix, Guehi, Mitchell, Wharton, Hughes, Sarr, Eze, Mateta

Fredrikstad Start XI: Borsheim, s Owusu, Stray Molde, Rafn, L Owusu, Metcalfe, Fredriksen, Bjartalid, Ohlenschlaeger, Woledzi, Skogvold

Palace against Fredrikstad on television? Online stream online, channel

Thursday’s kick -off is at 8:00 p.m. BST (3:00 p.m. and / 12:00 pm), with live cover on Channel 5, which is Channel 105 on Freeview HD, Sky and Virgin Media.

Fans can look at the online action on a wide variety of devices and move to the Channel 5 application.