Crystal Palace vs Millwall Match Analysis and Prediction

Crystal Palace continue their pre-season preparations with another behind-closed-doors friendly against Millwall at the Palace training ground on Saturday evening.

Crystal Palace already kicked off their pre-season preparations with a behind-closed-doors friendly against Accrington Stanley, where they played out a 1-1 draw with Jean-Philippe Mateta opening the scores for Palace before Matt Lowe equalized for Accrington.

Palace had a good season last term under their new manager Patrick Vieira, who guided his side to the safety of 12^th position. He has now turned his focus on the next campaign with already two acquisitions this summer.

The Eagles have a tough pre-season tour planned to Singapore and Australia where they will face Liverpool, Manchester United and Leeds United after the Saturday warm-up against Millwall.

Millwall, meanwhile, will open their busy pre-season this weekend against Palace, before facing Dratfird, Colchester United and Ipswich Town.

The Lions who finished ninth in the Championship last season, missing out on the playoff spots with just six points. They will be targeting the promotion-playoff spots this season and will be using the pre-season to heat-up their form so as to hit the ground running.

Crystal Palace vs Millwall head to head

Both sides have met in 98 encounters since 1921 with Millwall claiming 38 victories while Crystal Palace have claimed 30 victories and there have also been 30 draws.

• Millwall 1-2 Crystal Palace 08/01/22
• Millwall 0-0 Crystal Palace 30/04/13
• Crystal Palace 2-2 Millwall 20/10/12
• Millwall 0-1 Crystal Palace 31/12/11
• Crystal Palace 0-0 Millwall 26/11/11

Home

• Crystal Palace 1-1 Accrington Town
• Crystal Palace 1-0 Man United
• Everton 3-2 Crystal Palace
• Aston Villa 1-1 Crystal Palace
• Crystal Palace 1-0 Watford

Away

• Bournemouth 1-0 Millwall
• Millwall 3-0 Peterborough United
• Birmingham City 2-2 Millwall
• Millwall 2-1 Hull City
• Preston North End 1-1 Millwall

Crystal Palace team news

Crystal Palace will have a fully-fit squad and will want to use most of their squad in the friendly.

Millwall team news

Millwall also will want to use majority of their squad for the Saturday’s clash.

Prediction and odds

• Crystal Palace win
• Both sides to score
• Goals over 2.5