PREMIER LEAGUE : CRYSTAL PALACE VS NOTTINGHAM FOREST – 24/08/2025 (PHOTO – ISMAILA SARR CELEBRATES)

PREMIER LEAGUE – CRYSTAL PALACE VS NOTTINGHAM FOREST – 24/08/2025

DURING A MATCH WHICH SOME HAVE DESCRIBED AS ‘HOSTILE’ BECAUSE OF “DEMOTIONGATE” (i.e. THE FACT THAT CRYSTAL PALACE HAVE LOST THEIR APPEAL TO THE COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT (CAS) AGAINST BEING DEMOTED FROM THE EUROPA LEAGUE AND WILL PLAY IN THE CONFERENCE LEAGUE THIS SEASON, WITH NOTTINGHAM FOREST’S SPOT NOW CONFIRMED TO TAKE PALACE’S PLACE) – IT WAS BOUND TO GIVE THE PALACE FANS THE HUMP!

AND YES, THERE WERE A FEW CHANTS HERE AND THERE, BUT HOSTILE? PROBABLY NOT, MORE ‘PUNCH AND JUDY’. THE FANS WERE STILL CLAPPING, AND CHEERING LOUDLY IN THE SUNSHINE FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE TEAMS!

WHO CARES ABOUT THE RED TAPE ANYWAY? EVERYONE NOW KNOWS WHAT CRYSTAL PALACE ARE CAPABLE OF. AND THEY TRULY SHOWED THAT AGAIN YESTERDAY! PALACE MADE 377 PASSES, WITH A 76% PASS ACCURACY, HAD 1 CORNER, PLUS 8 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON-TARGET, INCLUDING 2 EXCITING NEAR-MISSES FROM MATETA AND GUEHY, AND A STUNNING GOAL FROM ISMAILA SARR AT LIGHTNING SPEED AT 37 MINS! (BELOW)

SO PALACE WERE 1 – 0 UP AT HALF-TIME!

NOTTINGHAM FOREST MADE 514 PASSES WITH AN 85% PASS ACCURACY, (HAD 58% POSSESSION), 3 CORNERS AND 9 SHOTS, INCLUDING 2 TASTY ‘ALMOSTS’ FROM GIBBS-WHITE, AND A STUNNING GOAL FROM CALLUM HUDSON-ODOI AT 57 MINS., (BELOW)

NOTTINGHAM FOREST CELEBRATE

MEANING THAT THIS EXCITING MATCH CULMINATED IN BOTH TEAMS SHARING THE POINTS, WITH A 1 – 1 DRAW!

BY AMANDA WATERS