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title: "Crystal Palace: Fans react to Ipswich friendly"
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author: "Charlie Smith"
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published: "2021-06-19T12:15:35Z"
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# Crystal Palace: Fans react to Ipswich friendly

**Crystal Palace [confirmed](https://twitter.com/CPFC/status/1405918468881457161) on Friday evening that they will take on Ipswich Town in a pre-season friendly next month.**

And a number of Palace supporters have been giving their thoughts regarding the fixture announcement on social media.

The Eagles will travel to [Portman Road on Saturday, July 24 for a 3pm kick-off](https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/2021/june/crystal-palace-to-play-ipswich-town-in-pre-season-friendly) to continue their preparations for the 2021/22 campaign.

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Palace learned on Wednesday that they will travel to [Stamford Bridge to face Champions League winners Chelsea for their Premier League opener](https://twitter.com/CPFC/status/1405072741317976065).

Steve Parish is yet to land Roy Hodgson’s long-term successor, but pre-season plans are rightly being finalised despite the absence of a new boss.

James McArthur scored twice the [last time Palace and Ipswich faced off](https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/2021/june/crystal-palace-to-play-ipswich-town-in-pre-season-friendly) in 2017 in a League Cup clash.

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### Palace fans react

Palace shared the news regarding the friendly with the League One side on their [official Twitter page](https://twitter.com/CPFC/status/1405918468881457161).

This is what these Eagles fans had to say in reply, with one describing the news as ‘decent’.

**“You don’t know how excited I am hopefully I’ll be able to get tickets and we won’t be in a full lockdown again!“**

[Credit: @parnellphoto\_](https://twitter.com/parnellphoto_/status/1405924291108126726)

**“This ones decent. The Darren Ambrose derby”**

[Credit: @ReeceJMT](https://twitter.com/ReeceJMT/status/1405918573030150144)

**“BRO JUST ANNOUNCE FAVRE”**

[Credit: @CPFC\_Trigs](https://twitter.com/CPFC_Trigs/status/1405918933148909572)

**“And who’s picking the team?”**

[Credit: @cpfc\_Rob](https://twitter.com/cpfc_Rob/status/1405919341233725441)

**“Are we expecting Paddy or Sean Derry to be caretaker manager for all of these pre-season matches ?”**

[Credit: @cmburns76](https://twitter.com/cmburns76/status/1405922530104336388)

**“Do we even have enough players to field a team?”**

[Credit: @cockneydub](https://twitter.com/cockneydub/status/1405936427905454081)

***In other news: Many CPFC fans react to Lucien Favre latest, find out more [here](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/crystal-palace-news/crystal-palace-fans-react-to-lucien-favre-contact/).***