Here's everything we know about the Tottenham Hotspur - Crystal Palace fixture:

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Competition: England Premier League
Competition: Sun 26.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (62000 seats)

Moving closer to the top clubs is at stake when these two mid-table clubs fight it out. Both will be aiming to strenghten their league status, Tottenham Hotspur in 7th and Crystal Palace in 11th position.

Insights:
  • Tottenham Hotspur have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Crystal Palace have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.

Spurs have less rest than Crystal Palace in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Carabao Cup game only four days ago. This match was also played here at Spurs Stadium. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Crystal Palace have had more rest.

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Tottenham Hotspur form and stats

Tottenham Hotspur are steadily winning Premier League games and points here at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. 6 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats is the summary from 9 games.

Spurs's previous game was a Carabao Cup match also played at home, ending 2-1 versus West Ham United (placed 5th). The home side are looking to build on that result. Midfielder Højbjerg was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.82 (out of ten) in that game. Højbjerg served one assist, hit one key pass and had 55 successful passes (of 63 total).

Before that, Spurs drew at home versus Liverpool.

Spurs are traveling soon after this match as the Premier League match at Southampton awaits in two days.

Tottenham Hotspur are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 9 games. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Spurs's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Crystal Palace form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Crystal Palace so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 1-3-4 (win-draw-lose). Palace seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Crystal Palace's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Southampton that finished 2-2. Zaha, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.62. Zaha scored one goal, hit one key pass and had 21 successful passes (of 25 total).

Before that, Palace secured a home win against Everton with the score 3-1.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Palace when being an outsider away as they are today, we find two matches with the visitors losing zero times, drawing one and winning one game.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Norwich City in just two days.

Crystal Palace have scored 9 goals on their travels this season, from 8 away games in the league. Palace have conceded 15 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The former head to head match ended Crystal Palace - Spurs 3-0, played this season. Statistics for the former ten meetings between these two squads are: six wins for Spurs, two draws and two wins for Crystal Palace. Over 2,5 goals: three times; under 2,5 goals: seven games.

Top Goalscorers

Tottenham HotspurH. Son
H. Son
7 goals
Crystal PalaceC. Gallagher
C. Gallagher
6 goals
Crystal PalaceW. Zaha
W. Zaha
5 goals

Tottenham Hotspur missing players

Crystal Palace missing players

Tottenham Hotspur Crystal Palace
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
15 9 2 Played P 0 8 17
8 6 2 Won W 0 1 4
2 1 0 Drew D 0 3 8
5 2 0 Lost L 0 4 5
18 13 4 Scored S 0 9 24
19 10 1 Conceded C 0 15 24
93% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 94%
67% 78% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 75% 82%
60% 67% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 62% 59%
20% 11% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 38% 35%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 6%
33% 33% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 38% 53%
40% 44% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 24%
33% 22% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 29%
 
5.6 6.6 7.5 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3.8 4.4
5.3 6.1 6.5 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6.5 5.4
1.9 1.7 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.6 1.9
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.9 12.8 15 Shots (avg) S ( 0 9.8 11
4.1 4.8 8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.2 3.6
29% 30% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 35% 39%
 
13.9 13.6 10 Shots against (avg) S A 0 16.1 12.4
4.1 4.2 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 5.5 4.3
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Crystal Palace have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Crystal Palace haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Tottenham Hotspur have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Tottenham Hotspur haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Manchester City 18 14 2 2 44 9 9 7 1 1 25 3 9 7 1 1 19 6 35 44
2 Liverpool 18 12 5 1 50 15 9 6 3 0 22 6 9 6 2 1 28 9 35 41
3 Chelsea 18 11 5 2 39 12 9 5 3 1 22 7 9 6 2 1 17 5 27 38
4 Arsenal 18 10 2 6 27 23 9 7 1 1 17 6 9 3 1 5 10 17 4 32
5 West Ham United 17 8 4 5 28 21 8 4 2 2 16 12 9 4 2 3 12 9 7 28
6 Manchester United 16 8 3 5 26 24 8 4 1 3 14 13 8 4 2 2 12 11 2 27
7 Tottenham Hotspur 15 8 2 5 18 19 9 6 1 2 13 10 6 2 1 3 5 9 -1 26
8 Wolverhampton Wanderers 18 7 4 7 13 14 9 3 2 4 5 7 9 4 2 3 8 7 -1 25
9 Leicester City 16 6 4 6 27 27 8 4 1 3 15 12 8 2 3 3 12 15 0 22
10 Aston Villa 17 7 1 9 23 25 8 4 1 3 14 11 9 3 0 6 9 14 -2 22
11 Crystal Palace 17 4 8 5 24 24 9 3 5 1 15 9 8 1 3 4 9 15 0 20
12 Brentford 16 5 5 6 21 22 8 3 1 4 10 10 8 2 4 2 11 12 -1 20
13 Brighton & Hove Albion 16 4 8 4 14 17 8 2 3 3 6 9 8 2 5 1 8 8 -3 20
14 Everton 17 5 4 8 21 29 8 4 1 3 13 13 9 1 3 5 8 16 -8 19
15 Southampton 17 3 8 6 16 26 8 2 5 1 8 7 9 1 3 5 8 19 -10 17
16 Leeds United 18 3 7 8 18 36 9 2 4 3 10 15 9 1 3 5 8 21 -18 16
17 Watford 16 4 1 11 21 31 8 2 1 5 10 17 8 2 0 6 11 14 -10 13
18 Burnley 15 1 8 6 14 21 7 1 4 2 8 8 8 0 4 4 6 13 -7 11
19 Newcastle United 18 1 7 10 18 41 9 1 4 4 12 21 9 0 3 6 6 20 -23 10
20 Norwich City 17 2 4 11 8 34 9 1 2 6 5 14 8 1 2 5 3 20 -26 10

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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.