{"id":464368,"date":"2025-12-22T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/464368\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T12:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:51:27","slug":"arsenal-vs-crystal-palace-prediction-gunners-looking-to-down-eagles-again-in-league-cup-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/464368\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal vs Crystal Palace Prediction: Gunners Looking to Down Eagles Again in League Cup Quarter-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><strong>Can Mikel<br \/>\nArteta\u2019s side take another step towards silverware? We look ahead<br \/>\nto Tuesday\u2019s EFL Cup quarter-final clash with our Arsenal vs<br \/>\nCrystal Palace prediction and<br \/>\npreview.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arsenal<br \/>\nvs Crystal Palace: The Key Stats<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Arsenal overcame Crystal Palace inside 90 minutes across 70.5%<br \/>\nof pre-match simulations by the Opta supercomputer.<\/li>\n<li>Palace have lost seven of their last eight meetings in all<br \/>\ncompetitions against Arsenal.<\/li>\n<li>No player has scored more goals in the EFL Cup than Eddie<br \/>\nNketiah (13) since his competition debut in 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mikel Arteta will hope for the same result when <a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/team\/scm-3\/arsenal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arsenal<\/a><br \/>\nhost <a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/team\/scm-31\/crystal-palace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crystal<br \/>\nPalace<\/a> in a repeat of last season\u2019s EFL Cup quarter-final at<br \/>\nthe Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/player\/sc-205651\/gabriel-jesus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gabriel<br \/>\nJesus<\/a>\u2019 hat-trick saw Arteta\u2019s side get past Palace with a 3-2<br \/>\nwin in 2024-25, and they meet again in the last eight of the<br \/>\n2025-26 edition.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/arsenal-3-2-crystal-palace-efl-cup-2024-25-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Arsenal 3-2 Crystal Palace EFL Cup 2024-25\" class=\"wp-image-226154\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal\u2019s route to this stage has been fairly simple, sweeping<br \/>\naside League One\u2019s Port Vale before a routine home victory over<br \/>\nBrighton &amp; Hove Albion in the fourth round. Palace beat rivals<br \/>\nMillwall on penalties before an impressive 3-0 win over an<br \/>\nadmittedly much-changed Liverpool at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Having overcome the Premier League champions in the last round,<br \/>\nPalace could become only the second team to eliminate both of the<br \/>\nprevious season\u2019s top two in a single League Cup campaign. West Ham<br \/>\nUnited are the only other side to do so, beating Manchester City<br \/>\nand Manchester United in 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Glasner\u2019s men are no strangers to cup success either,<br \/>\nhaving beaten Man City in the FA Cup final last term. They are now<br \/>\npreparing to feature in back-to-back EFL Cup quarter-finals for the<br \/>\nfirst time since the 1991-92 and 1992-93 campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal will also be looking to win consecutive games against<br \/>\nfellow Premier League sides in the competition for the first time<br \/>\nsince the 2010-11 campaign. They beat Tottenham, Newcastle United<br \/>\nand Wigan Athletic in that edition.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners have triumphed at this stage in their last two<br \/>\nattempts, including last season\u2019s victory over Palace. They have<br \/>\nhad a player score a hat-trick in both those victories \u2013 Jesus last<br \/>\nseason and <a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/player\/sc-205533\/eddie-nketiah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eddie<br \/>\nNketiah<\/a> against Sunderland in 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p>And Arteta may have to watch out for one of those hat-trick<br \/>\nheroes coming back to haunt him. Nketiah, who swapped Arsenal for<br \/>\nPalace in 2024, has scored more EFL Cup goals (13) than any other<br \/>\nplayer since his competition debut in October 2017.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/eddie-nketiah-efl-cup-goals-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Eddie Nketiah EFL Cup Goals\" class=\"wp-image-226153\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>But Arsenal have another Hale End academy product to call upon.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/player\/sc-499175\/ethan-nwaneri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethan<br \/>\nNwaneri<\/a> has scored four goals in five starts in this<br \/>\ncompetition. Since the start of last season, only Diego G\u00f3mez and<br \/>\nCody Gakpo (5 each) have scored more than the 18-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal head into this quarter-final on the back of <a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/articles\/everton-vs-arsenal-stats-premier-league-12-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\na 1-0 victory away to Everton on Saturday night<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/player\/sc-224117\/viktor-gyokeres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viktor<br \/>\nGy\u00f6keres<\/a>\u2018 penalty proved the difference on Merseyside, meaning<br \/>\nArsenal will spend Christmas two points clear of Man City at the<br \/>\nPremier League summit.<\/p>\n<p>There was no such festive joy for Palace, who were hammered 4-1<br \/>\nby Leeds United at Elland Road. A late <a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/player\/sc-489706\/justin-devenny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin<br \/>\nDevenny<\/a> penalty proved a mere consolation in one of Palace\u2019s<br \/>\nworst performances of the season. It was surely a factor, though,<br \/>\nthat due to the difficulty in finding a place for this game in the<br \/>\nfixture schedule, the Eagles had to face Leeds just 48 hours after<br \/>\nplaying their final league-phase game in the Conference League<br \/>\nagainst KuPS.<\/p>\n<p>Isma\u00efla Sarr missed the Leeds defeat as he jetted off to the<br \/>\nAfrican Cup of Nations, while Daniel Mu\u00f1oz and Daichi Kamada are<br \/>\nother headline absentees for Glasner\u2019s threadbare squad.<\/p>\n<p>Arteta will again be without Kai Havertz and Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es,<br \/>\nthough the pair could return before the year ends. Ben White and<br \/>\nCristhian Mosquera are expected to be a week further behind in<br \/>\ntheir respective recoveries.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Arsenal vs Crystal Palace<\/strong><br \/>\nHead-to-Head<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal may be confident heading into this one, given they have<br \/>\nwon seven of their last eight meetings with Palace in all<br \/>\ncompetitions (D1).<\/p>\n<p>They have already beaten Glasner\u2019s side this season, too, with<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/player\/sc-232413\/eberechi-eze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eberechi<br \/>\nEze<\/a> scoring against his former club in a 1-0 victory in the<br \/>\nPremier League at the Emirates in October.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/arsenal-1-0-crystal-palace-stats-october-2025.jpeg\" alt=\"Arsenal 1-0 Crystal Palace Stats October 2025\" class=\"wp-image-226152\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Though Palace eliminated Arsenal in the 1970-71 competition,<br \/>\nthey have lost their last three EFL Cup meetings (both legs of the<br \/>\n1992-93 semi-final, last season\u2019s quarter-final).<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Arsenal vs Crystal Palace<\/strong><br \/>\nPrediction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal progressed to the semi-finals with victory in 90 minutes<br \/>\nacross a massive 70.5% of 10,000 pre-match simulations by the<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/articles\/opta-football-predictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Opta<br \/>\nsupercomputer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Palace were afforded just a 13.7% chance of winning in normal<br \/>\ntime, with the draw \u2013 which would result in a penalty shoot-out \u2013<br \/>\ngiven a 17.4% likelihood.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/arsenal-vs-crystal-palace-prediction-efl-cup-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Arsenal vs Crystal Palace Prediction EFL Cup\" class=\"wp-image-226149\"  \/><br \/>\n<strong>Opta<br \/>\nPower Rankings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/2024\/08\/who-are-the-best-football-team-in-the-world-opta-power-rankings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nOpta Power Rankings<\/a> are a global team ranking system. They<br \/>\nassign an ability score to over 15,000 domestic football teams.<br \/>\nThis score is on a scale between zero and 100, where zero is the<br \/>\nworst-ranked team in the world and 100 is the best team in the<br \/>\nworld.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of kick-off at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday night, here<br \/>\nis the Opta Power Ranking for both sides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><strong>Subscribe<br \/>\nto our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">football<br \/>\nnewsletter<\/a>\u00a0to receive exclusive weekly content. 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