Four different goalscorers lifted Crystal Palace past Hull City and ensured the Eagles’ Premier League survival.

Four different goalscorers lifted Crystal Palace past Hull City and ensured the Eagles’ Premier League survival.
An early, opportunistic goal from Wilfried Zaha settled any nerves that Crystal Palace might have had, and a thoroughly professional performance ensured that Hull City barely had a chance. Three more goals cemented the three points that ensured safety. 
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Selhurst Park hasn’t been the easiest of environments for Palace players this season, with tension often boiling over at the slightest of errors. But the early goal, and the focused approach from the players, gave Palace a positive…

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Palace continue to fight strongly against relegation as a Christian Benteke brace led to victory over third-place Liverpool.

Palace continue to fight strongly against relegation as a Christian Benteke brace led to victory over third-place Liverpool.
Crystal Palace showed their mettle despite going 1-0 down early in the game. A Christian Benteke double secured all three points, putting Palace within touching-distance of Premier League safety.

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Palace’s character shone through. Despite the early set-back, they stuck to Sam Allardyce’s gameplan and fought their way back into the game with Benteke’s equaliser, then took the initiative with his winner. The defensive rigidity — so often the bane of top-six sides since Allardyce took over…

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English Premier League: Yohan Cabaye (63′) Crystal Palace 2-0 Arsenal
Crystal Palace midfielder Yohan Cabaye told RMC he does not want to discuss the next step in his career.
“Today, no one knows my future,” said Cabaye, who has made 28 Premier League appearances for Palace this season. “We’ll see what happens this summer or next summer, because I still have a year on my contract.”
When asked whether he would like to return to France, he replied: “I don’t want to say yes or no. It’s too soon to talk about transfers. I don’t want to put myself in the s—.”
Cabaye,…

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Stevie Nicol says Manchester United should throw the kitchen sink at Antoine Griezmann to lure him from Atletico Madrid.

Gab Marcotti dissects the rumours linking Eden Hazard with a summer move from Chelsea to Real Madrid.

The FC crew discuss Alexis Sanchez’s recent comments on wanting to play for a team with a ‘winning mentality’.

The football world’s gossip mill is in full swing, and Transfer Talk is monitoring the whispers ahead of all the summer moves. Check out the latest deals here.

Griezmann remains United’s top priority 
Jose Mourinho likes the look of Kylian Mbappe and has his eye on Romelu Lukaku, but Antoine Griezmann is his top target for Manchester United this summer and he has enlisted Paul Pogba to help complete the signing.

The Daily Telegraph claims Pogba has been trying to allay his France international…

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Sam Allardyce and Crystal Palace drew with Watford in his first game as the club’s new manager back in December.

Throughout the football season, there are occasions that stand to be a reminder of progress or deterioration, points at which results of the past can shine a light upon performances of the present. Sam Allardyce will see Saturday’s match with Watford as one of those opportunities: it’s a chance to right the wrongs he felt Crystal Palace committed during his first game in charge at Vicarage Road back in December 2016.

Having just been appointed manager, Allardyce went into that game against Watford…

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Yohan Cabaye joined Crystal Palace from Paris Saint-Germain in 2015.
Yohan Cabaye has told L’Equipe that Marseille tried to sign him during the January window but he is focused on helping Crystal Palace get out of their “complicated situation” in the Premier League.
Cabaye was in the Palace side routed 4-0 at home by Sunderland last Saturday, a defeat that left Sam Allardyce’s men second-from-bottom of the table, two points from safety.

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But the France international could have instead been in southern France competing for a top-four finish in Ligue 1 after Rudi Garcia,…

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Anthony Richardson wraps up all of the Deadline Day news in 90 seconds, from David Meyler’s Twitter tease, to Saido Berahino’s freedom.

Gab Marcotti addresses the potential concerns for Man United with Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s career nearing an end.

You want evidence that the game is changing? Consider the fact that La Liga and the Premier League (probably the two strongest leagues in the world) each had a positive net transfer spend during the January window that shut on Tuesday. According to data from Transfermarkt, English top-flight clubs sold players for some $15 million more than they bought, while Spain was also in the black.

Or how about this? Of the 10 most expensive transfers this winter, five involved players going to Chinese…

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