Palace's international stars kicked off their international breaks with a whole host of differing results and minutes, here's what you might have missed.
Crystal Palace’s international Eagles kickstarted their international break on Thursday, with a varied bunch of results and minutes. With so many players away on international duty over the next three weeks, RoundTable is the best place to keep up to date with all of the news regarding Palace’s players, injury updates and more.
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In the first batch of games, we saw five Palace players take to the international stage. Here’s what you might have missed.
Anan Khalaili - Austria 3-1 Israel
Khalaili started as a right midfielder for Israel as they lost 3-1 away to Austria. Khalaili put in a solid performance from the right hand side, where he has the license to get forward in this Israel side.
It was a standard, all-action display which Palace fans have gotten used to in the few weeks he’s spent with the club, and was the highest ranked outfield player for Israel.
His side equalised after Austria had taken the lead, but striker Saied Abu Farchi was shown a second yellow card for his goal celebration, supposedly imitating a pool cue, the referee deemed the celebration inappropriate and sent him off.
From there, Austria’s quality shone through and they managed to win by two goals.
Daichi Kamada - Japan 3-1 Uruguay
Kamada has also had a strong start to the season with Palace, and carried that form into Japan’s friendly game against Uruguay. He replaced Palace summer transfer target Kaishu Sano at halftime, with the scores level, as Japan scored twice in second half additional time to win the game 3-1.
The overall data available for the game is very limited, but another 45 minutes for his nation is a good start to the break for Kamada.
Quinten Timber - Netherlands 1-1 Germany
Timber was rewarded for his star to the season with Palace with a starting position in the Dutch midfield, alongside Liverpool’s Ryan Gravenberch. He played 57 minutes and was replaced by Joey Veerman, but put in a strong display, carrying that form from Palace into the National team.
He was involved in a pretty poor challenge which left Arsenal’s Kai Havertz sprawling, but the challenge was not quite as dangerous as an AI generated image that did the rounds on social media depicted, clearly detectable by the fact it had swapped Timber’s shirt number with that of Denzel Dumfries and neither Timber nor Havertz looked anything like they actually do.
Timber will be hoping that he can fight his way into the starting XI for Xavi’s side.
Rio Cardines - Haiti 3-2 Trinidad and Tobago
Whilst he’s currently on loan with Bristol City, after his miraculous start to life in the Championship we thought it was only fitting to keep an eye on Cardines during the international break too, and it seems that he’s carried that goal creating expertise onto the international stage too.
Despite his side losing 3-2, Cardines registered another assist, his seventh of the season in just eight games, when his side equalised in the 31st minute.
Cardines has made that starting position his own, and whilst it was a disappointing result for Trinidad and Tobago in their first AFCON Nations League game, he’ll be hoping to continue the ridiculous form that he’s on.
Jørgen Strand Larsen - Norway 3-2 Denmark
Despite featuring a fair bit during the World Cup, more so off the bench as he faces potentially the most stiff competition for a single starting spot with Erling Haaland, JSL did not feature in this game.
The City striker scored a brace as Norway won 3-2, despite a late red card to left back David Møller Wolfe.
Strand Larsen will be hoping to earn a start in one of Norway’s three remaining Nations League games across the remaining time in this break.
