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title: "Crystal Palace: Eagles scouts at Benfica v Barcelona"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Charlie Smith"
section: "Crystal Palace"
published: "2021-10-01T17:35:06Z"
modified: "2021-10-01T17:35:06Z"
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# Crystal Palace: Eagles scouts at Benfica v Barcelona

**Crystal Palace and Leeds United scouts were in attendance for Benfica’s Champions League meeting with Barcelona on Tuesday, [Melissa Reddy](https://twitter.com/melissareddy_/status/1443350425869160454?s=21) confirmed.**

### The Lowdown: Barcelona keen on Gallagher?

La Liga giants Barcelona have been credited with an interest in Palace loanee Conor Gallagher in recent weeks.

Spanish outlet [Fichajes](https://www.fichajes.net/noticias/el-exotico-ingles-sigue-barca-20210918.html) believe the Catalan heavyweights have set their sights on a future move for the 21-year-old, who has been working under Patrick Vieira on a season-long loan at Selhurst Park.

However, it appears as if Palace, who [pipped](https://www.teamtalk.com/news/exclusive-leeds-rejected-chelsea-target-opts-crystal-palace-move) Leeds to Gallagher’s services this summer, have been looking at Barcelona and Benfica themselves.

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### The Latest: Reddy’s tweet

[Reddy](https://twitter.com/melissareddy_/status/1443350425869160454?s=21), The Independent’s senior correspondent, took to Twitter in the early hours of Thursday morning to share a list of scouts who were in attendance for Benfica’s 3-0 win over Barcelona.

Palace were on that list, along with Leeds and eight other Premier League sides.

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### The Verdict: Who impressed?

It remains to be seen who Palace went over to Portugal to watch, however, there were a number of impressive individual displays from the Liga Nos side.

Centre-forward Darwin Nunez was the best-rated performer on the pitch with a [WhoScored](https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1592152/LiveStatistics/Europe-Champions-League-2021-2022-Benfica-Barcelona) match rating of 8.10/10.

The Uruguayan scored twice, while centre-back Lucas Verissimo and midfielder Julian Weigl also [caught the eye](https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1592152/LiveStatistics/Europe-Champions-League-2021-2022-Benfica-Barcelona).

Palace may well have come away from the match with new targets in mind, so it’ll be interesting to see who the club are linked with over the coming months.

***In other news: [Palace keen on free-scoring midfielder in cut-price move on less money than Mitchell.](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/crystal-palace-transfer-rumours/crystal-palace-eagles-linked-with-john-swift/)***