Crystal Palace may be taking some time off over the next week or so, but there’s plenty of football to keep on top of on the international stage. 

Despite Palace’s struggles at the start of the season, and Pierre Sage being sacked, a number of Palace players were still called up to their international sides. 

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Luis De La Fuente’s side continued to dominate in their Nations League group, and began this international break with a 2-0 win away to Czechia. 

Lamine Yamal was absent for this break as he nurses some fitness issues, and so Palace’s own Yéremy Pino was awarded a start in this game, rewarding his brilliant start to the season with Palace where he’s been comfortably the best player at the club. 

Spain dominated, and Pino played well. Just after halftime, he scored a superb goal, latching on to the end of a long pass from Spanish goalkeeper Unai Simon. Pino took a couple of touches towards goal and chipped the onrushing ‘keeper, scoring to make it 2-0. 

However, after a lengthy VAR review, the goal was ruled out for a marginal offside, and Pino was left bitterly disappointed. He was replaced by Mikel Merino less than twenty minutes later, but will be hoping to feature when Spain host England in just a few days time. 

A number of sides from South America and Asia are only playing international friendlies this month, with a fair few of them facing double headers against the same opponents, with one home game and one away game each. 

For Colombia, Chile are their opponents for this break, and in the first of the two meetings, Colombia ran out 1-0 winners at Olimpico Pascual Guerrero. Both Lerma and Osorio started, as did former Palace man Daniel Muñoz. 

Osorio played 80 minutes but wasn’t involved all that much, whilst Lerma played the entire game and put in a strong performance as Colombia limited their opponents to just five shots. 

Both players will be hoping to come back to South London and make an impact to impress the incoming manager, who at this point looks likely to be Thomas Frank, as long as Palace can agree the deal with his backroom staff.