{"id":837708,"date":"2026-03-20T05:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/837708\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T05:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:10:16","slug":"blank-gameweek-31-confirmed-for-man-city-crystal-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/837708\/","title":{"rendered":"Blank Gameweek 31 confirmed for Man City + Crystal Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any last lingering possibility of <strong>Manchester City v Crystal Palace<\/strong> going ahead in<strong> Gameweek 31<\/strong> was snuffed out on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Had Palace been eliminated from the UEFA Conference League, their trip to the Etihad \u2013 postponed this weekend due to City\u2019s EFL Cup final involvement \u2013 could theoretically have been played on April 7\/8.<\/p>\n<p>That would have kept it in Gameweek 31.<\/p>\n<p>But Palace\u2019s victory over AEK Larnaca has eliminated that prospect.<\/p>\n<p>WHEN COULD CITY V PALACE BE PLAYED?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re looking at the midweeks after Gameweek 33 or 36 for City v Palace now. That would create a double for both sides:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-233-1024x159.png\" alt=\"City Gameweek 31 \" class=\"wp-image-162747 webpexpress-processed\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Palace or City could yet have <strong>two<\/strong> Double Gameweeks, as one of their Gameweek 34 fixtures will have to be moved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk\/2026\/03\/10\/blank-gameweek-34-bookies-odds-of-postponements\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">due to the clash with the FA Cup semi-finals.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/FFScoutEditorial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250820-WA0000-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"price change predictions\" class=\"wp-image-144736 webpexpress-processed\" style=\"width:600px\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Any last lingering possibility of Manchester City v Crystal Palace going ahead in Gameweek 31 was snuffed out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4100],"tags":[239228,19285,94,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-837708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-blank-gameweek-31","tag-double-gameweek-33","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116259784538338158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}