The Eagles return from their travels having started the season unbeaten away from home, and will be looking to build on that with a result against visitors Wolves heading into the international break.
MATCH INFORMATION
- 2pm – 3rd September 2023
- Selhurst Park, Holmesdale Road, London SE25 6PU
PREVIOUS MEETING
The last time Wolves made the trip to South London was in October 2022, and it started well for them as Adama Traore (31) gave them a first half lead. The Eagles came out from the break and equalised immediately courtesy of Eberechi Eze (47) and completed the fight back with a goal from Wilfried Zaha (70) which ended up sealing all three points.
WHO SCORED MAN OF THE MATCH – Wilfried Zaha (8.6)
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Robert Jones. Assistants: Ian Hussin, Wade Smith. Fourth official: Thomas Bramall. VAR: Stuart Attwell. Assistant VAR: Marc Perry.
TEAM NEWS
PALACE – Michael Olise, and Matheus Franca continue to be ruled out while Will Hughes is a doubt.
WOLVES – Hee-Chan Hwang will face a late fitness test but Joseph Hodge will miss out with a thigh injury.
DISCIPLINARY RECORD
RED CARDS – Matheus Nunes (1)
YELLOW CARDS (2+) – Craig Dawson (2), Mario Lemina (2)
FORM GUIDE
Last FIVE meetings between the two sides;
- 25/04/23 Wolves 2-0 Palace
- 18/10/22 Palace 2-1 Wolves
- 05/03/22 Wolves 0-2 Palace
- 06/11/21 Palace 2-0 Wolves
- 30/01/21 Palace 1-0 Wolves
Last FIVE results for Palace:
- 29/08/23 Plymouth 2-4 Palace
- 26/08/23 Brentford 1-1 Palace
- 21/08/23 Palace 0-1 Arsenal
- 12/08/23 Sheffield United 0-1 Palace
- 28/05/23 Palace 1-1 Forest
Last FIVE results for Wolves;
- 29/08/23 Wolves 5-0 Blackpool
- 26/08/23 Everton 0-1 Wolves
- 19/08/23 Wolves 1-4 Brighton
- 14/08/23 Manchester United 1-0 Wolves
- 28/05/23 Arsenal 5-0 Wolves
LEAGUE POSITION
Heading into the fixture, Palace are 11th in the Premier League with 4 points from 3 games while Wolves sit in 15th with 3 points.
RECORD AGAINST WOLVES
- Played 74
- Won 25
- Drawn 19
- Lost 30
FORM PLAYERS ACCORDING TO WHO SCORED
- Joachim Andersen 8.07
- Jefferson Lerma 7.41
- Jose Sa 7.41
- Pedro Neto 7.05
ONE TO WATCH
PEDRO NETO
FORMER CLUBS – Vianense, Perspectiva em Jogo, Braga, Palmeiras Braga, Lazio (loan)
The Portuguese international is slowly closing in on a century of appearances for Wolves after joining the club back in 2019. He only returned to action towards the end of the last campaign after a five month lay off due to an ankle injury.
KEY CLASH
JOACHIM ANDERSEN v SASA KALAJDZIC
The Dane is in fine form so far this season and managed to have a week off having not featured in the EFL Cup in midweek. He will likely be up against the Austrian striker who got himself on the scoresheet in midweek, who is looking to make up lost time after suffering an ACL injury on his debut for the club last season.
PRE-MATCH STATS
- GOALS – Odsonne Edouard/Joachim Andersen (1 – 17th in PL)
- ASSISTS – Jordan Ayew (2 – 1st in PL)
- PASSES – Joachim Andersen (204 – 16th in PL)
- TACKLES – Joachim Andersen (7 – 23rd in PL)
- TOUCHES – Joachim Andersen (260 – 14th in PL)
- SHOTS – Eberechi Eze (16 – 1st in PL)
- FOULS – Jordan Ayew (8 – 2nd in PL)
- DISPOSSESSED – Jordan Ayew (8 – 3rd in PL)
- SAVES – Sam Johnstone (3 – 20th in PL)
- CLEARANCES – Joachim Andersen (16 – 5th in PL)
- BIG CANCES MISSED – Odsonne Edouard (2 – 3rd in PL)
THE NUMBERS
Since their return to the Premier League in 2018, Wolves have only lost more league games against Liverpool (9), Manchester City (7) and Manchester Utd (6) than they have against Palace (5).
Having lost 1-0 to Arsenal in their first home game this season, Palace are looking to avoid losing their opening 2 home games in a season for the first time since 2018-19. Palace have done so 5 times previously (1994-95, 1997-98, 2004-05, 2017-18 and 2018-19), with only West Ham doing so more often in Premier League history (6).
Both of Wolves’ Premier League goals this season have been scored by substitutes – Hwang Hee-chan v Brighton and Sasa Kalajdzic v Everton. Starting players have had 35 shots (7 on target) accumulating an xG of 4.5 without scoring, while substitutes have only had one fewer shot on target (6) in their appearances than players in the starting XI.
No player has had more shots in the Premier League this season than Palace’s Eberechi Eze (16), although he has failed to score with all 16 shots. It is the most shots a player has had without scoring in the first 3 games of a season since Harry Kane in 2017-18 (24), who went on to score 30 goals that campaign.
TEB PREDICTION
After all the excitement of Deadline Day, these two teams head into the clash looking to add to their tally of points so far this season in front of the live television cameras. With Palace unbeaten away from home, they will be looking to take their first points at home which we think will be a real possibility. Wolves head into the fixture after their first win of the season at Everton so they will not be pushovers but Palace should have enough about them to get the result.
FINAL SCORE: 1-0 to Palace
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