Evenly matched teams: Everton vs Crystal Palace match preview

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Competition: England Premier League
Competition: Sat 22.October
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Goodison Park (40569 seats)

Everton are depending on their home crowd to aid them in this meeting against Crystal Palace. Who is the winner at Goodison Park?

Insights:
  • Crystal Palace have the most points from losing position (9) in Premier League

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Everton and Crystal Palace.

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Everton form and stats

1-2-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Premier League numbers at home for Everton so far this season. Everton has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager Lampard and the players.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 265 minutes without scoring a league goal. Iwobi was the last player to find the net.

Everton faced defeat in their previous match, away at Newcastle United (0-1). Tarkowski, defender, was given a rating of 7.33/10 in that game, top of the team. Tarkowski won 4 of 7 duels.

Prior to that, an away loss at Tottenham Hotspur.

This is expected to be a close game, with Everton perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Everton as a small favourite), we find 8 games. Everton has won 3 of these, drawn 1 and lost 4.

Everton aren't scoring a lot here at Goodison Park in the league, with only {3 goals} from 5 games. Everton have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Crystal Palace form and stats

0-3-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Crystal Palace in their Premier League matches away. Visiting Crystal Palace has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.

Impressive finishing from Zaha and Eze secured the home win 2-1 against Wolverhampton Wanderers in their previous game. Midfielder Eze was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.03. Eze scored one goal, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Before that, Crystal Palace travelled to Leicester City and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 7 similar matches played by Crystal Palace in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Crystal Palace, 1 draw and 4 defeats.

The attacking power of Palace when travelling is not overwhelming with 3 goals scored from 4 league matches away. 5 goals have been conceded by Crystal Palace in these games.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head statistics (for the prior ten meetings): Everton won five games, three matches ended with a draw and Crystal Palace have two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / four.

Top Goalscorers

Crystal PalaceW. Zaha
W. Zaha
5 goals
EvertonA. Gordon
A. Gordon
2 goals
Crystal PalaceE. Eze
E. Eze
2 goals

Everton missing players

Crystal Palace missing players

Everton Crystal Palace
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
11 5 2 Played P 1 4 10
2 1 1 Won W 0 0 3
4 2 1 Drew D 1 3 4
5 2 0 Lost L 0 1 3
8 3 1 Scored S 0 3 12
12 4 0 Conceded C 0 5 13
91% 80% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 50% 80%
64% 40% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 80%
27% 20% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 20%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 10%
55% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 70%
18% 40% 100% Clean Sheets C S 100% 50% 20%
36% 40% 50% Failed to Score F T 100% 50% 30%
 
4.6 5.4 6 Corners for (avg) C F 2 2.5 3.5
8.2 9 11.5 Corners against (avg) C A 9 8 5.2
2.6 2.6 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.2 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.2 11.6 10.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8 9.8 11.4
3.5 4 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 4.2 4.5
21% 15% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 18% 27%
 
16.1 15.2 18 Shots against (avg) S A 14 19.5 14.5
5.2 5.2 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 5.5 4.2
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Crystal Palace have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Crystal Palace have the most points from losing position (9) in Premier League
  • Crystal Palace have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Crystal Palace have yet to win a game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Arsenal 10 9 0 1 24 10 5 5 0 0 14 7 5 4 0 1 10 3 14 27
2 Manchester City 10 7 2 1 33 10 5 5 0 0 24 5 5 2 2 1 9 5 23 23
3 Tottenham Hotspur 11 7 2 2 22 12 5 5 0 0 15 4 6 2 2 2 7 8 10 23
4 Chelsea 10 6 2 2 15 10 4 3 1 0 9 4 6 3 1 2 6 6 5 20
5 Manchester United 10 6 1 3 15 15 5 3 1 1 8 4 5 3 0 2 7 11 0 19
6 Newcastle United 11 4 6 1 18 9 6 3 3 0 12 5 5 1 3 1 6 4 9 18
7 Liverpool 10 4 4 2 22 12 6 4 2 0 17 5 4 0 2 2 5 7 10 16
8 Brighton & Hove Albion 10 4 3 3 14 11 5 2 2 1 6 3 5 2 1 2 8 8 3 15
9 Brentford 11 3 5 3 18 17 6 3 2 1 12 6 5 0 3 2 6 11 1 14
10 Crystal Palace 10 3 4 3 12 13 6 3 1 2 9 8 4 0 3 1 3 5 -1 13
11 AFC Bournemouth 11 3 4 4 10 23 6 2 2 2 4 5 5 1 2 2 6 18 -13 13
12 Fulham 10 3 3 4 16 20 5 2 2 1 10 11 5 1 1 3 6 9 -4 12
13 West Ham United 11 3 2 6 9 12 5 2 1 2 6 6 6 1 1 4 3 6 -3 11
14 Southampton 11 3 2 6 10 18 5 1 2 2 6 7 6 2 0 4 4 11 -8 11
15 Everton 11 2 4 5 8 12 5 1 2 2 3 4 6 1 2 3 5 8 -4 10
16 Leeds United 9 2 3 4 11 13 5 2 2 1 6 3 4 0 1 3 5 10 -2 9
17 Aston Villa 10 2 3 5 7 13 5 2 1 2 4 5 5 0 2 3 3 8 -6 9
18 Wolverhampton Wanderers 11 2 3 6 5 14 5 2 2 1 3 4 6 0 1 5 2 10 -9 9
19 Nottingham Forest 11 1 3 7 7 23 5 1 1 3 6 9 6 0 2 4 1 14 -16 6
20 Leicester City 10 1 2 7 15 24 5 1 2 2 7 5 5 0 0 5 8 19 -9 5

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The English Premier League is the top level of the English football league pyramid. 20 teams play 38 fixtures each to see who tops the Premier League table. The Premier League is the most watched sports league in the world. Seasons run from August to May with most games on Saturdays and Sundays.