Crystal Palace will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 41 points behind Manchester City.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Crystal Palace form and stats

With 4 wins, 4 draws and 8 defeats from their home games, Crystal Palace are certainly not brimming with confidence.

A good away victory last time out for Crystal Palace, who won 1-0 against Newcastle United. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Tottenham Hotspur (0-2).

No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Crystal Palace had similar winning odds as today, and found one game. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 1 and lost 0. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Crystal Palace lost 0 similar games by at least two goals.

Crystal Palace aren't scoring a lot here at Selhurst Park with only 13 goals from 16 games. 17 goals have been conceded.

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Manchester City form and stats

The away team, who have the most scored goals (83) in Premier League, have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 10 wins, 2 draws and only 3 losses.

Manchester City play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-1 to Tottenham Hotspur. That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Brighton & Hove Albion in the FA Cup.

As mentioned earlier, Manchester City will not be satisfied unless they get maximum points from this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 36 wins (22 by two or more goals winning margin), 8 draws and 8 surprising defeats.

After this away game Manchester City return home for a Champions League game against Tottenham Hotspur. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Manchester City has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches this season, 28 goals from 15 games. It's not easy to score on Manchester City as they have only conceded 9 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Manchester City - Crystal Palace 2-3 entered in the official records. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 2 Crystal Palace victories, 1 draw and 7 Manchester City wins.

Top Goalscorers

S. Agüero
19 goals / 7 assists
R. Sterling
15 goals / 9 assists
L. Milivojević
11 goals / 1 assists

Crystal Palace missing players

Manchester City missing players

Crystal Palace Manchester City
Total Home Statistic Away Total
33 16 Played 15 32
39 13 Scored 28 83
43 17 Conceded 9 21
91% 88% Over 0.5 93% 97%
73% 62% Over 1.5 80% 88%
39% 25% Over 2.5 47% 66%
27% 12% Over 3.5 20% 41%
12% 0% Over 4.5 7% 19%
45% 31% Both teams to score 33% 47%
33% 38% Clean Sheet 60% 50%
30% 44% Failed To Score 13% 6%
 
0 0 Corners For (avg) 0 0
0 0 Corners Against (avg) 0 0
0 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 0 0
0 0 Red Cards (avg) 0 0

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Liverpool 33 25 7 1 75 20 16 14 2 0 46 10 17 11 5 1 29 10 55 82
2 Manchester City 32 26 2 4 83 21 17 16 0 1 55 12 15 10 2 3 28 9 62 80
3 Chelsea 33 20 6 7 57 34 17 11 5 1 34 10 16 9 1 6 23 24 23 66
4 Tottenham Hotspur 32 21 1 10 60 34 15 10 1 4 27 13 17 11 0 6 33 21 26 64
5 Arsenal 32 19 6 7 65 40 17 14 2 1 39 12 15 5 4 6 26 28 25 63
6 Manchester United 32 18 7 7 61 43 15 9 5 1 30 19 17 9 2 6 31 24 18 61
7 Leicester City 34 14 5 15 46 45 17 7 2 8 21 20 17 7 3 7 25 25 1 47
8 Wolverhampton Wanderers 32 13 8 11 40 39 16 8 3 5 24 20 16 5 5 6 16 19 1 47
9 Everton 33 13 7 13 46 42 17 8 4 5 24 21 16 5 3 8 22 21 4 46
10 Watford 32 13 7 12 47 47 15 8 2 5 23 20 17 5 5 7 24 27 0 46
11 West Ham United 33 12 6 15 41 50 17 8 3 6 27 25 16 4 3 9 14 25 -9 42
12 Crystal Palace 33 11 6 16 39 43 16 4 4 8 13 17 17 7 2 8 26 26 -4 39
13 Newcastle United 34 10 8 16 32 43 17 7 1 9 19 21 17 3 7 7 13 22 -11 38
14 AFC Bournemouth 33 11 5 17 44 61 17 7 5 5 29 24 16 4 0 12 15 37 -17 38
15 Burnley 33 10 6 17 40 60 16 6 2 8 21 28 17 4 4 9 19 32 -20 36
16 Brighton & Hove Albion 31 9 6 16 32 46 15 6 4 5 17 16 16 3 2 11 15 30 -14 33
17 Southampton 32 8 9 15 36 53 16 4 6 6 20 25 16 4 3 9 16 28 -17 33
18 Cardiff City 32 8 4 20 28 61 17 6 2 9 19 33 15 2 2 11 9 28 -33 28
19 Fulham 33 4 5 24 30 76 16 4 3 9 19 32 17 0 2 15 11 44 -46 17
20 Huddersfield Town 33 3 5 25 19 63 17 2 2 13 8 28 16 1 3 12 11 35 -44 14

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