Crystal Palace v West Ham United 09.02.2019 // 3pm
10 TODAY'S GAME
Crystal Palace v West Ham United // Saturday 9th February // Selhurst Park
Today's game After beating a team from the west of the capital last weekend, now Palace face off against one from the city's east side as West Ham United come to SE25 looking to continue their good form against the Eagles. The Hammers haven’t lost to Palace in the last seven meetings and are unbeaten in their last four visits to Selhurst Park, a run stretching back to 2013 when Marouane Chamakh’s header clinched an important 1-0 win for Tony Pulis’ team. Only against Everton (seven games) and Manchester United (nine) are Palace currently on a worse winless run at Selhurst than against West Ham. However, Roy Hodgson’s side have started to make their home a fortress of late, having won five of their last eight matches on their own turf after winning none of their first six this campaign. They have also kept four clean sheets in that time, helping to boost their tally to an impressive 12 in all competitions this term. Those stats bode well especially when coupled with West Ham’s recent woes on the road. Manuel Pellegrini has seen his men lose their last three away league games by an aggregate score of 7-0, and suffer a cup shock at the hands of AFC Wimbledon on their last London away day, however they did pick up an encouraging point against Liverpool on Monday night with a good display at the London Stadium.
Luka Milivojevic scores a penalty on average once every five Premier League games – more frequently than any other player to play at least 50 matches.
PALACE V WEST HAM UNITED
TODAY'S GAME 11
Previous encounters:
Head 2 head
One to watch:
All-time
Jeffrey Schlupp has scored as many Premier League goals this season (4) as he managed in 99 games between his debut in August 2014 and the end of last season.
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Palace wins west ham wins draws
Form guide: West Ham have won three of their last four away games against Crystal Palace in all competitions. The Hammers could string together a run of four-straight London derby wins for the first time since February 1996.
Last TIME OUT WEST HAM UNITED 1-1 LIVERPOOL 1 Lukasz Fabianski 24 Ryan Fredericks 23 Issa Diop 21 Angelo Ogbonna 3 Aaron Cresswell 41 Declan Rice 16 Mark Noble 30 Michail Antonio
Robert Snodgrass has been directly involved in three goals in his last two Premier League appearances against Crystal Palace (2 goals, 1 assist).
PALACE
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WEST HAM UNITED
SUBS:
11 Robert Snodgrass
9 Andy Carroll
8 Felipe Anderson
14 Pedro Obiang
17 Javier Hernandez
26 Arthur Masuaku
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16 17
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11 41
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M I C H Y
BATSHUAYI Palace made one of the biggest moves in the January transfer window by landing the Belgian hitman on loan from Chelsea, who has managed to make a splash all across Europe during his short career to date. Here, Jonathon Rogers gives Eagles fans a taste of what they can expect from their new arrival.
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FACT FILE Name: Rob Street Date of birth: 26th September 2001 Place of birth: Oxford When did you start at Palace? Under-15 level, about two years ago Team supported as a youngster? Liverpool
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First footballing idol? Steven Gerrard Career highlight to date? Winning the league with the U18s as an U16 Favourite food? Pasta Favourite TV show? Match of the Day What do you like to do in your free time? Be with my family and friends If you weren’t a footballer, what would you be? A coach or anything else in football If you could meet anyone famous, who would it be? Steven Gerrard Hopes for the season? To keep scoring goals - I’d like 15-20
PALACE
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WEST HAM UNITED
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Rob Street
I was spotted playing against Sussex in my first season at county level. I got a six-week trial at Palace from that and I had some gametime in a few pre-season friendlies when I scored in every one. As the weeks go by, you get more and more nervous until the decision comes but luckily they saw something in me. I was delighted because I’d been trying my whole life to get into an academy. My dad and grandad first got me into it, so for them to see me play with much older lads makes them really proud. I can’t thank them enough. My chance with the under-23s first came about at the end of last season, and I was nervous. It was tough because I was only an under-16 and I wasn’t expecting it, but lads like Ollie O’Dwyer and Ryan Inniss helped me out a lot. My debut was at Selhurst on a bank holiday Monday so we had a bit of a crowd there. The step up is massive; the older boys don’t switch off once and they’re on it for 90 minutes. The tempo always goes up with age groups but you really notice it between academy and development football. I’m between two age groups and I train with both at the moment. I want to keep my place in the under23s, become a regular and score a few more goals. We’re second in the table at the moment, so I think we can get into the play-offs at the end of the season and then maybe win them. The team are doing well, now we need to push on and I want to help with that.
PALACE
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WEST HAM UNITED
I’m a target man, or an old-fashioned centreforward as everyone calls me! I can press well and I’m quite strong in the air, and my desire is important too because I won’t give up right until the end. My strengths are those of a typical centreforward, but I’ve got room to improve - I need to work on my hold-up play as well as my composure in front of goal. James Daly is a really good player who’s quite similar in style to me. He has helped as well, though he and I haven’t played together as much as I’d have liked. We’re both hard workers and he’s done really well. I try to pick things up off his game because when he came up he scored a lot of goals, so I try to take elements of his game and put them into my own. I was injured for about eight weeks recently, which was a challenge. I’d started the season really well and was in form but I twisted my ankle on a sprinkler that hadn’t been pushed down properly in Cardiff, and I thought I’d done my Achilles at first because I’ve never felt so much pain in my life. I tried to work harder in the gym and use it as an opportunity to improve but I did struggle. There were three of us in rehab though; myself, Josh Ajayi and Jacob Russell. We’d all injured our ankles at similar times so it helped massively to have those two going through it with me.
82 STATISTICS
Seasonal Statistics Most Touches in Opposition Box
Best Dribble Success Rate
Mamadou Sakho
Wilfried Zaha
82%
140 Top Goal Scorers 01. Luka Milivojevic
07
02. Andros Townsend
04
03. Wilfried Zaha
04
Overall Discipline
Total Goals
42%
Shooting Accuracy
2
41
13
Hit Woodwork
26
97
136
Shots on Target
Shots off Target
PALACE
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WEST HAM UNITED
STATISTICS 83
Pass Success Rate
Player In Focus
77%
Average Possession
45%
Most Aerial Duels Won
132 v
WEST HAM UNITED
Jeffrey Schlupp has the best minutes-to-goal ratio than any other Palace player this season
Most Passes
James Tomkins
PALACE
231
Luka Milivojevic
1,330
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Referee Craig Pawson
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Assistant Lee Betts
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Lukasz FABIAŃSKI Winston REID Aaron CRESSWELL Fabián BALBUENA Pablo ZABALETA Marko ARNAUTOVIĆ Felipe ANDERSON Andy CARROLL Manuel LANZINI Robert SNODGRASS ADRIÁN Pedro OBIANG Carlos SÁNCHEZ Mark NOBLE Javier HERNÁNDEZ Samir NASRI Jack WILSHERE Andriy YARMOLENKO Angelo OGBONNA Issa DIOP Ryan FREDERICKS Arthur MASUAKU Lucas PÉREZ Michail ANTONIO Xande SILVA Nathan HOLLAND Declan RICE Grady DIANGANA Conor COVENTRY
Assistant Ian Hussin
Match Sponsor:
Fourth Official Andy Woolmer