Crystal Palace and Liverpool Analysis: Key Talking Points in November 2026

Crystal Palace and Liverpool in Focus

Crystal Palace FC are being talked about again. The table says what that talk is worth.

The Season So Far, in Numbers

Crystal Palace FC are 20th in the Premier League on 7 points from 10 games: 2 won, 1 drawn, 7 lost. They have scored 10 and conceded 24, a goal difference of -14 — 1.0 scored and 2.4 conceded per game.

Manchester United FC sit directly above on 7, level on points.

The gap to Arsenal FC at the top is 20 points.

What the Split Tells You

At 1.0 scored and 2.4 conceded per game, this is a side losing both halves of the game. Goal difference of -14 after 10 games is the honest summary — it moves slower than form does, and it is the number that ends up deciding where a side finishes.

The Pace They Are On

7 points from 10 is 0.7 per game. Held across a full season that lands around 27 points. Whether that is enough depends entirely on the clubs immediately around them in the table above — which is why the gap to Manchester United FC matters more than the headline that brought you here.

Analysis from the Planete Football team. Table, form and scoring data from football-data.org, correct at publication. The 38-game figure is a straight projection of current points per game, not a prediction.