Crystal Palace – KuPS Tip Conference League, Matchday 6 on Thursday, 18.12.2025 at 21:00 CET
Oliver Glasner had written European Cup history with Eintracht Frankfurt, with Crystal Palace the Austrian is still a long way from it before the last matchday of the league phase in the Conference League.
While the English are in a strong 5th place in the domestic Premier League, the team needs a win on Thursday to secure a place in the top 8 of the international competition at all.
A three-pointer should probably succeed – also in view of the clear odds of the German betting providers – but according to my forecast, the mandatory victory will be a lot closer than many might have thought in advance.
Since home games are not the Londoners’ thing this season, a home win with a maximum of two goals ahead is already the highest of feelings in my Crystal Palace KuPS tip!
Crystal Palace vs. KuPS AI Predictions:
A home defeat against the football dwarf from Larnaca, a second defeat in Strasbourg. Although the other 3 UECL appearances resulted in more or less sovereign victories, it was already clear that Crystal Palace’s main focus is not on Europe.
Nevertheless, our in-house artificial intelligence estimates the performance gap to the Finns to be large enough to trust at least a halfway convincing performance of the home side with the handicap victory -1 in the Crystal Palace KuPS AI prediction.
For this football bet, however, there is only 1.58 times the stake back, which is a bit too little for me in view of the expected B-eleven of the English.
However, I don’t really want to advise against it here: After all, the regular season in Finland has already ended for over a month – and the KuPS, which only finished in 4th place, has only played two competitive games in the last six weeks.
Predicted chance of winning:
| Victory Crystal Palace |
Draw |
Victory KuPS |
| 79.5% |
13.2% |
7.3% |
The fact that KuPS also managed these last two games with flying colors (0:1 at Jagiellonia, 0:0 against Lausanne) somehow made an impression even on our AI.
In view of the fact that only three goals were conceded in the first 5 UECL games (total goal difference of 4:3), the Under 3.5 goals are recommended here at a rate of currently around 1.70.
The tip “Draw at half-time” also pays off for the impressively defensive performances of the Finnish guests so far – and is good for a considerable odds of around 2.90 in the event of success.
What you need to know about Crystal Palace vs. KuPS betting
- KuPS has lost only once in the first 5 UECL matchdays, collecting a remarkable 6 points with 1 win and 3 draws.
- In 2 of the 5 games, KuPS kept a clean sheet – and never conceded more than one goal in total.
- Thanks to the good goal difference, a draw could be enough for KuPS to qualify for the play-offs.
- Over 2.5 goals have been scored in each of Crystal Palace’s last 3 UECL matches, but the Over 3.5 has only been scored in one of 5 matches.
- After 12 competitive home games this season, Crystal Palace have only 4 wins to their name.
