📏 Form Guide

Liverpool

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Liverpool will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 3-2 Premier League loss in their previous game against Brighton & Hove Albion.

In that match, Liverpool managed 51% possession and 18 shots on goal with 5 on target. For Liverpool, the scorers were Harvey Elliott (9') and Dominik Szoboszlai (45'). On the other side, Brighton & Hove Albion had 25 shots on goal with 12 on target. Yasin Ayari (32'), Kaoru Mitoma (69') and Jack Hinshelwood (85') scored for Brighton & Hove Albion.

Liverpool have not been the best at stopping their opponents recently, but they’ve also done enough to hit the back of the net themselves. Over their last 6 matches, Liverpool have conceded in 5 of them in addition to managing to get on the scoresheet in 6 of those games.

Going into this encounter, Liverpool are unbeaten in their previous 16 home league matches. It really has been a fortress.

Crystal Palace

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Crystal Palace will go into this meeting following on from a 4-2 Premier League win in the defeat of Wolverhampton Wanderers in their previous outing.

In that match, Crystal Palace had 32% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 10 of them on target. For Crystal Palace, goals were scored by Eddie Nketiah (27', 32'), Ben Chilwell (50') and Eberechi Eze (86'). For their opponents, Wolverhampton Wanderers had 12 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Emmanuel Agbadou (24') and Jorgen Strand Larsen (62') scored for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

In their last 6 clashes, Crystal Palace have helped themselves to the sum of 13 goals. Crystal Palace have also scored in every single one of those games. Over that period, they have seen 5 goals go against them. We shall soon find out if that trend will end up being sustained here.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Crystal Palace:

• have not been beaten by Liverpool when having played them away from home in the previous 2 league matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 23/01/2022 tells us that Liverpool have won 3 of these games & Crystal Palace 1, with the tally of drawn results standing at 2.

A combined sum of 11 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 7 from The Reds and 4 created by The Eagles. That’s an average goals per game of 1.83.

The previous league meeting featuring these clubs was Premier League match day 7 on 05/10/2024 and the score finished Crystal Palace 0-1 Liverpool.

On that day, Crystal Palace had 32% possession and 9 shots at goal with 5 of them on target.

For their opponents, Liverpool got 16 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Diogo Jota (9') scored.

The match was refereed by Simon Hooper.

ℹ️ Team News: Liverpool

There’s just a single fitness concern for the Liverpool boss Arne Slot to contend with from an otherwise fully-primed set of players. Tyler Morton (Shoulder injury) is sidelined.

It looks as if The Reds could use the 4-2-3-1 formation for this game, handing starts to Alisson Becker, Conor Bradley, Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk, Andrew Robertson, Ryan Gravenberch, Curtis Jones, Mohamed Salah, Dominik Szoboszlai, Cody Gakpo and Luis Diaz.

ℹ️ Team News: Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner has a number of players out of action. Cheick Doucouré (Knee surgery) and Chadi Riad (Cruciate ligament tear) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

We’re of the thinking that The Eagles might begin the game with a 3-4-2-1 lineup, choosing Dean Henderson, Chris Richards, Maxence Lacroix, Jefferson Lerma, Daniel Munoz, Daichi Kamada, Will Hughes, Tyrick Mitchell, Ismaila Sarr, Eberechi Eze and Jean-Philippe Mateta.

💡 Prediction

Our feeling is that Crystal Palace will manage to put one past this Liverpool team, although that isn’t expected to be as many as they’ll concede.

We’re expecting both teams to score in a 2-1 advantage for Liverpool after 90 minutes. We are expecting it to be pretty even.

Peter Guest, 14:01 25/05/2025