“Anything can happen with football,” says Christian Benteke. “And that is the beauty of it.
“We know that, with the fast approach to the end of the season, it gets harder to score points as people are fighting for relegation, for the Champions League, for different reasons of competition.”
Benteke agrees with the idea that Crystal Palace’s strength comes partly from the pressure of Premier League survival, but he adds: “With our squad, we don’t really have to worry about relegation, but rather reaching the highest spot possible for us as a team because I think that we have the quality.