Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Crystal Palace

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Crystal Palace will be hoping to bounce back here after the 5-2 Premier League losing effort in their last game against Manchester City.

For Crystal Palace, the goalscorers were Eberechi Eze (8') and Chris Richards (21'). Kevin De Bruyne (33'), Omar Marmoush (36'), Mateo Kovačić (47'), James McAtee (56') and Nico O'Reilly (79') scored for Manchester City.

Fixtures with Crystal Palace have proved to be entertaining affairs lately with plenty of scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past 6 games alone, the sum total of 20 goals have gone in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 12 of these accredited to Crystal Palace. Let’s see whether or not that trend can be sustained into this next match.

Their prior results show that Crystal Palace:

• have not won against Bournemouth in their previous 3 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 3 home league matches.

Bournemouth

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Bournemouth will go into this encounter following a 1-0 Premier League win vs Fulham in their most recent game.

In that game, Bournemouth managed 41% possession and 12 shots on goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Bournemouth was Antoine Semenyo (1'). Fulham had 12 attempts on goal with 7 on target.

In a total of 5 out of the previous 6 clashes involving Bournemouth, at least three goals have been hit. The average goals scored per game in that time is 3, with the number of goals averaged by Bournemouth standing at 1.33.

Taking a look at their past results, Bournemouth:

• are unbeaten in their last 2 away league matches.
• are without an away win for the past 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings stretching back to 15/09/2020, there has been little between the sides with Crystal Palace winning 2 of those games, Bournemouth 2 and 2 being draws after 90 minutes of play.

A combined total of 7 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 4 of them from The Eagles and 3 for The Cherries. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.17.

The previous league fixture featuring these clubs was Premier League match day 18 on 26/12/2024 and the score finished Bournemouth 0-0 Crystal Palace.

That day, Bournemouth had 52% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

At the other end, Crystal Palace got 10 attempts on goal with 4 on target.

The referee was Thomas Bramall.

📋 Team News: Crystal Palace

Maxence Lacroix (Head injury), Cheick Doucouré (Knee surgery) and Chadi Riad (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be playing for Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner.

📋 Team News: Bournemouth

Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Ryan Christie (Groin injury), Luis Sinisterra (Thigh problems) and Enes Ünal (Cruciate ligament tear) will miss out on this game.

🧠 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Bournemouth and Crystal Palace could well both score and end up finding themselves in a fairly even game here.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes, with a good chance of a draw. We’re therefore tipping a tight encounter, finishing with a 1-1 score draw at the end of this one.

📖 ⚽️ What are the best odds for this match?

Checking the betting prices for this game in the full-time result market, victory for Crystal Palace is best priced at 2.4, going for the draw is 3.6 and betting on the win for Bournemouth gets you 2.7. Those are the best of the market prices that can be secured at the moment.

Andre Moura, 09:03 16/04/2025