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Well, here we are. Do or quite possibly die. And it’s barely mid-September. Crystal Palace were gifted an extremely kind start to the season, featuring alongside a visit to Anfield home games against Huddersfield, Swansea and Southampton and this trip to Burnley. With three of those five matches played they are pointless, and Frank de Boer’s job appears to already be on the line. After this game and the match against the Saints next Saturday they face three successive matches that they are likely to lose, away at Manchester City and Manchester United before hosting Chelsea. They need encouragement, and they need points, and they need them quickly. No points at the end of August is disappointing, but, say, three or fewer after nine matches would be a crisis. When Palace last lost the first four games of a league season it was 1925. And they could easily lose this one, as they lost twice to Burnley last season. It is, in short, and largely thanks to Palace’s poor start to the season, extremely tasty.
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