{"id":1402,"date":"2026-04-27T08:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:05:40","slug":"u18s-preview-arsenal-v-crystal-palace-match-preview-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"U18s preview: Arsenal v Crystal Palace | Match preview | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Our young Gunners aim to bounce back in the U18s Premier League South when they host Crystal Palace on Tuesday, April 28.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The match will take place at the Sobha Realty Training Centre, with kick-off scheduled for 12pm (UK time).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After an impressive 3-0 win against Reading just under a week ago, Adam Birchall&#8217;s side fell to a narrow 4-3 defeat to West Ham United over the weekend, in a game they twice led.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Goals from Bowen Phillips, Saurup Sampang and Louis Zecevic John looked to have earned at least a point in the affair but a stoppage-time winner from the Hammers ultimately decided the contest. The result leaves us 11th on 28 points, with five games remaining.<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"media\" data-entity-uuid=\"f1746bbf-9aa1-4ec5-91e6-13b6fb7358d9\" data-embed-button=\"video_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:media.full\" data-video-embed-up-next-tray=\"default\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<\/article>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">THE OPPOSITION<\/h2>\n<p>The Eagles have been flying on all fronts, balancing their efforts across three competitions as the season enters its final stages.<\/p>\n<p>12 wins from their first 23 league games have Palace in a strong position to finish amongst those at the top of the table, but their defeat to Norwich City on Saturday has halted domestic progress for now, \u00a0as the result leaves them currently in 6th with 39 points.<\/p>\n<p>The south London outfit lifted the U18 Premier League Cup in dramatic fashion last Wednesday, beating Manchester United 6-5 on penalties. The game was forced into extra-time when Benji Casey converted his stoppage-time spot kick to level at 1-1, before a goalless additional 30 minutes ensued.<\/p>\n<p>Sudden death was required to settle the shootout with the deciding kick dispatched by Lucca Benetton, witnessed by 4,000 jubilant home fans at Selhurst Park to see their academy side secure a maiden trophy triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Our city neighbours came close to reaching another final just days earlier, this time missing out on an FA Youth Cup showdown. The Red Devils were the opponents once again, but United ran out 2-1 victors on that occasion and will now face fierce rivals Manchester City for the prestigious silverware.<\/p>\n<p>We last faced Crystal Palace in April 2025, when we came from behind late on to win 2-1 on the road, through goals from Andre Harriman-Annous and Cam&#8217;ron Ismail.<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"media\" data-entity-uuid=\"e0ab5c5d-f34a-445d-8a80-3bdb9aa8445d\" data-embed-button=\"video_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:media.full\" data-video-embed-up-next-tray=\"default\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<\/article>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>HOW TO FOLLOW<\/h2>\n<p>Kick-off is at 12pm (UK time). Live updates will be available on our <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/arsenalacademy\" target=\"_blank\">academy&#8217;s official X account<\/a>with a full match report on The Arsenal app and Arsenal.com shortly after the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p>Post-match, supporters can catch interviews and highlights of all the key action from Sobha Realty Training Centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our young Gunners aim to bounce back in the U18s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}