Crystal Palace FC 0-2 Newcastle United FC: Premier League Match Report, 25 October 2026

Our preview of this match was written on 18 October 2026 but only went live on 1 November, after the final whistle. Its pick is reviewed below as it was written, and it is left out of our win rate and bankroll.

Selhurst Park had seen fourteen goals in Palace's three home league games before this one. It saw two here, both after half-time and both for the visitors: Crystal Palace FC 0-2 Newcastle United FC. The record carries the half-time and full-time scores only, so who scored and when are unknown.

Palace were sixteenth on seven points from seven at kick-off, goal difference -8, a week after losing 5-0 at Brighton. Newcastle were fourteenth on eight at -4, having lost 1-0 at home to Aston Villa. Between them they had conceded 31 goals in fourteen matches, and Palace's home games had gone 1-4, 2-3 and 3-1.

What happened instead looked like Newcastle's earlier away win. At Tottenham in August they had been goalless at the interval and won 2-0, and this was the same sequence; their other two trips, to Leeds and Coventry, had both ended 4-1 against them. The meeting with Palace on Tyneside in January had also been 0-0 at the break and 2-0 at the end.

Palace failed to score at home for the first time this season and have now gone two matches without a goal while conceding seven. It was also Newcastle's first win at Selhurst Park in three meetings there on record, after a 1-1 in November 2024 and Palace's 2-1 in April.

Palace's goal difference is now -10 after eight, and no side in the division has conceded more than their nineteen. Last season's fifteenth place came on 45 points, a little under 1.2 a game, with the fewest goals of any club that stayed up. Seven from eight is behind that rate, and the attack is scoring at much the same pace as then, nine goals in eight. Two months is too short to call it a decline, but little in the start points the other way.

Newcastle move to eleven points, four clear of Palace, with their goal difference improved to -2. Eleven from eight is slightly ahead of last season's twelfth-place 49 from 38. An away record of two 2-0 wins from goalless half-times and two 4-1 defeats still describes a side of extremes rather than a settled level.

Our preview's call was Over 2.5 Goals at 1.57. It carried high confidence and four numbers: fourteen goals in Palace's three home games, twelve in Newcastle's three away games, 31 conceded between them in fourteen matches, and ten of those fourteen over the line.

The preview named the way it could lose — two sides coming off bad defeats deciding the first hour was about not conceding — and the goalless first half fits it. It also cited the evidence, Palace's 0-0 at Leeds and Newcastle's 2-0 at Tottenham, the second this exact scoreline from this exact half-time position, and then gave it too little weight. Three-game samples carried a "high" label that the overall scoring figures (nine for Palace, ten for Newcastle in seven) did not support.

Verdict: not counted. The pick would have lost, but the preview only went live after kick-off.