The forward is on a fantastic run of form under Oliver Glasner, having netted eight times in ten matches under his new manager.
It's a run which has won the Palace forward not only a Premier League Player of the Month nomination for April, but also his season-best tally in a Palace shirt: 14 – and 4 assists – in all competitions.
Honing in furtheron those numbers, it is Mateta’s home form this season which is particularly eye-catching – and Manchester United would do well to take heed ahead of Monday.
No other Palace player has had a hand in more goals at Selhurst Park this season, with eight goals and two assists to Mateta’s name (although, remarkably, in just 485 minutes' playing time in SE25 this season, Michael Olise has scored four and assisted seven).
Mateta has scored in each of his five home Premier League appearances under Glasner, netting seven times cumulatively against Burnley, Luton Town, Manchester City, West Ham and Newcastle.
Against United on Monday, Mateta could join exalted company: the last player to score in his first six home appearances under one manager in the Premier League was a certain Alan Shearer, who did so for Kevin Keegan at Newcastle in 1996/97 (he went on to extend this run to nine games).
The last Palace player to score in five successive home league games was Bruce Dyer, who netted against Swindon, Grimsby, Queen’s Park Rangers, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Oxford United (twice) between October and December 1996.
