Fulham vs Crystal Palace Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Fulham

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Fulham fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being a 0-2 Premier League victory against Southampton.

In that game, Fulham managed 65% possession and 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. For Fulham, the goals were scored by Carlos Vinícius (48') and Aleksandar Mitrović (72'). Southampton got 5 shots on goal with 1 of them on target.

It has been all too rare in recent games where Fulham haven’t conceded. In fact, Fulham have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 8 goals on the way.

Coming into this meeting, Fulham have not been beaten in the league by Crystal Palace in their previous 2 games.

Crystal Palace

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Crystal Palace go into this encounter following a 2-0 Premier League win over Bournemouth in their previous fixture.

In that match, Crystal Palace managed 60% possession and 17 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer for Crystal Palace was Eberechi Eze (39', 58'). Bournemouth had 5 shots at goal with 0 on target.

In 5 of the past six clashes featuring Crystal Palace, a comparatively low number of goals have gone in between them and their opposition. The overall average goals scored per game in that period comes to a paltry 2.33, with the average goals for The Eagles standing at 1.33. With no two games being the same, we’ll just have to find out whether such a trend will be replicated in this upcoming game.

Their prior results show that Crystal Palace:

• remain unbeaten by Fulham in games played away from home for the previous 3 league games.
• have not won away from home in their last 2 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 11/05/2014 shows that Fulham have won 1 of these games and Crystal Palace 3, with the number of drawn matches being 2.

14 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 6 of them for The Cottagers and 8 being from The Eagles. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.33.

The previous league meeting featuring these sides was Premier League match day 17 on 26/12/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Crystal Palace 0-3 Fulham.

On that day, Crystal Palace had 36% possession and 4 attempts on goal with 0 on target.

Fulham had 23 attempts at goal with 11 on target. Bobby De Cordova-Reid (31'), Tim Ream (71') and Aleksandar Mitrović (80') scored.

The match was refereed by Andrew Madley.

ℹ️ Team News: Fulham

Layvin Kurzawa (Sideband tear), Tim Ream (Fractured Arm) and Andreas Pereira (Ankle Injury) aren’t available for Fulham gaffer Marco Silva.

We are thinking that The Cottagers should opt for a 4-2-3-1 system in the match, utilising Bernd Leno, Kenny Tete, Tosin Adarabioyo, Issa Diop, Antonee Robinson, Harrison Reed, Joao Palhinha, Harry Wilson, Tom Cairney, Willian and Vinicius.

ℹ️ Team News: Crystal Palace

Thanks to a completely injury-free squad available for selection, the Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson does not have any fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this clash.

From our viewpoint, The Eagles seem likely to begin the game with a 4-3-3 formation, starting the game with Sam Johnstone, Joel Ward, Joachim Andersen, Marc Guehi, Tyrick Mitchell, Eberechi Eze, C. Oumar Doucoure, Will Hughes, Michael Olise, Odsonne Edouard and Jordan Ayew.

🔮 Prediction

In this game, Crystal Palace are dangerous enough to score a goal against this Fulham team, but it might not be enough to prevent defeat.

We’re predicting a very close game with a 2-1 victory for Fulham after the 90. Let’s see what happens here.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 00:40 16/05/2023