📊 Form Guide

Crystal Palace

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Crystal Palace, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 0-1 Premier League triumph against Liverpool.

In that game, Crystal Palace had 30% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 5 on target. The scorer for Crystal Palace was Eberechi Eze (14'). For their opponents, Liverpool had 21 attempts on goal with 6 on target.

It has been all too rare in recent games that Crystal Palace have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that Crystal Palace have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 10 goals during that time.

A look at their previous results shows us that Crystal Palace:

• haven't lost in the league to West Ham United in their previous 3 matches.
• have not won at home in their last 2 matches in the league.

West Ham United

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Previously, West Ham United drew 1-1 in the Europa League match with Bayer Leverkusen.

In that game, West Ham United managed 42% possession and 14 shots on goal with 6 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for West Ham United was Michail Antonio (13'). On the other side, Bayer Leverkusen had 9 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Jeremie Frimpong (89') scored for Bayer Leverkusen.

The stats don’t lie, and West Ham United have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, conceding 11 goals in all. Defensively, West Ham United seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. While that may be of interest, we must now wait to see whether such a trend might persist in this match.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels going back to 26/01/2021, both clubs have shared the honours with Crystal Palace winning 2 of those games, West Ham United 2 and 2 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 26 in all which averages out at 4.33 goals per match.

The previous league game between these sides was Premier League match day 14 on 03/12/2023 and the score finished West Ham United 1-1 Crystal Palace.

On that day, West Ham United managed 55% possession and 9 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Mohammed Kudus (13').

Crystal Palace had 9 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Odsonne Édouard (53') scored.

The match was refereed by Michael Oliver.

📋 Team News: Crystal Palace

Jesurun Rak-Sakyi (Hamstring injury), Marc Guéhi (Knee problems), Cheick Doucouré (Achilles tendon rupture) and Sam Johnstone (Elbow injury) won’t be playing for Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner.

It’s our opinion that The Eagles could employ a 3-4-2-1 system and select Dean Henderson, Rob Holding, Joachim Andersen, Nathaniel Clyne, Daniel Munoz, Tyrick Mitchell, Jairo Riedewald, Adam Wharton, Michael Olise, Eberechi Eze and Jean-Philippe Mateta.

📰 Team News: West Ham United

With a fully injury-free group to choose from, the West Ham United boss David Moyes does not have any fitness worries at all ahead of this clash.

We reckon that The Hammers seem likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 system, going with Lukasz Fabianski, Vladimir Coufal, Kurt Zouma, Angelo Ogbonna, Emerson, Tomas Soucek, Edson Alvarez, Mohammed Kudus, James Ward-Prowse, Lucas Paqueta and Jarrod Bowen.

✨ Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that West Ham United would be disappointed if they were not to find the net against this Crystal Palace lineup, but that probably shouldn’t be enough to prevent defeat.

We can see a close game with a 2-1 winning score for Crystal Palace after the 90.

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Peter Guest, 13:04 21/04/2024