Roy Hodgson says Crystal Palace ‘threatened’ with rearranged Manchester United fixture

Roy Hodgson says that Crystal Palace have been “threatened” with a rearranged fixture in opposition to Manchester United that will see them taking part in three video games in per week.

The fixture in opposition to Manchester United was initially pencilled in for the weekend of March twentieth, the ultimate fixture earlier than the worldwide break.

Nevertheless, Hodgson says that it has been mooted that the sport in opposition to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s crew may very well be modified to midweek round March 2nd/third – sandwiched between London derbies in opposition to Fulham and Tottenham.

Palace have been fighting accidents of late, with round 10 first-team gamers out during the last two weeks – probably the most within the Premier League.

With the top of a busy run in sight, Hodgson was requested whether or not a return to a barely much less frantic schedule could be a profit to his crew and maybe permit gamers to return again into the aspect, the supervisor revealed the fixture conundrum.

“Effectively maybe not,” Hodgson informed reporters. “As a result of we’re being threatened with a recreation in between Fulham and Tottenham in opposition to Manchester United.

“I do not know whether or not that is been ratified as but, nevertheless it’s been mooted as a risk, which might give us three video games in per week and 4 video games in underneath two weeks from Monday evening’s recreation in opposition to Brighton.”

The necessity to rearrange the fixture is because of Manchester United’s FA Cup quarter-final tie in opposition to Leicester Metropolis, which is because of happen on March twenty first.

With United additionally competing within the Europa League – and prone to make it to the spherical of 16 following their 4-0 away victory in opposition to Actual Sociedad, it means discovering a spot within the fixture record is at the moment tough.

A midweek recreation at first of March wouldn’t be notably welcome information for United both, with clashes both aspect in opposition to high 4 rivals Chelsea and Premier League leaders and native rivals Manchester Metropolis.