Eagles Looking For Third Win Of Week In Trip To West Ham

The final game of a busy week sees the Eagles looking to continue their fine away form with a short trip to take on West Ham. 

 

MATCH INFORMATION

18 January 2025 – 3pm
London Stadium, Queen Elizabeth Park, London E20 2ST

 

PREVIOUS MEETING

03/12/2023 – An early goal for the hosts from Mohammed Kudos set them on their was but an Odsonne Edouard strike early in the second half ensured the points were shared.   
WHO SCORED MAN OF THE MATCH – Mohammed Kudos (8.6)

 

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee Thomas Bramall
Assistant Ian Hussin
Assistant James Mainwaring
Fourth Official Oliver Langford
VAR Alex Chilowicz
Assistant VAR Matthew Wilkes
 

TEAM NEWS

PALACE – Matheus Franca, Adam Wharton and Rob Holding continue to miss out while Jefferson Lerma is a doubt after leaving the game early in midweek.  

HAMMERS –  Michail Antonio, Jarrod Bowen, Jean-Clair Todibo, and Niclas Fullkrug are all unavailable while Crysencio Summerville is expected to face a late fitness test. 

 

DISCIPLINARY RECORD

This is the section of our match preview that highlights those that have not been the best of friends with match officials as the season goes on. Of course, they all begin with a clean slate, but we will start to see those that will be heading for a ban or two as the campaign progresses.

RED CARDS – Daichi Kamada (1), Mohammed Kudos (1), Edson Alvarez (1)
YELLOW CARDS (over 5.5) – Will Hughes (7), Tomas Soucek (6), Lucas Paqueta (6)

 

FORM GUIDE

Last FIVE meetings between the two sides;

24/08/2024 Palace 0-2 West Ham
04/08/2024 Palace 3-1 West Ham
21/04/2024 Palace 5-2 West Ham
03/12/2023 West Ham 1-1 Palace
29/04/2023 Palace 4-3 West Ham

Last FIVE results for Palace:

15/01/2025 Leicester 0-2 Palace
12/01/2025 Palace 1-0 Stockport
04/01/2025 Palace 1-1 Chelsea
29/12/2024 Palace 2-1 Southampton
26/12/2024 Bournemouth 0-0 Palace

Last FIVE results for West Ham;

14/01/2025 West Ham 3-2 Fulham
10/01/2025 Aston Villa 2-1 West Ham
04/01/2025 Manchester City 4-1 West Ham
29/12/2024 West Ham 0-5 Liverpool
26/12/2024 Southampton 0-1 West Ham

 

LEAGUE POSITION

Heading into the fixture, Palace are 15th in the Premier League with 24 points from 21 games played, while West Ham are 13th with 26 points from the same amount of games. 

 

RECORD AGAINST WEST HAM

Played 51
Won 12
Drawn 18
Lost 21

 

FORM PLAYERS ACCORDING TO WHO SCORED

This is the section of our match preview where we list two players from each side that are top of the ratings by our friends over at Who Scored. Obviously, there are no ratings to share at the moment but that will soon change!

Jarrod Bowen 7.15
Ebere Eze 7.09
Daniel Munoz 7.06
Mohammed Kudos 6.94

 

ONE TO WATCH

TOMAS SOUCEK
FORMER CLUBS – Slovan Havlickuv Brod, SLavia Prague, Viktoria Zizkov (loan), Slovan Liberec (loan)
The Czech international has passed 150 appearances for the club since joining in 2020 and netted in the victory over Fulham in midweek, and always presents a challenge to the opposition at both ends of the pitch. 

 

THE NUMBERS

West Ham are winless in 5 home games against Palace (D3, L2).

Following their 2-0 win at Selhurst Park in August, the Hammers are aiming to complete a Premier League double over Palace for the first time since 2016-17.

West Ham have scored in each of the past 21 Premier League meetings, their longest top-flight scoring streak against another team.

Palace have lost just once in their last 10 Premier League matches (W4, D5).

They are unbeaten in 6 away league games (W3, D3), their best run in the top flight since 1992.

Palace are winless in 13 away London derbies in the Premier League since beating West Ham in November 2022 (D6, L7).

Ismaila Sarr has been involved in 5 goals in his last 6 Premier League appearances, scoring 3 and assisting 2.

 

KEY CLASH

TYRICK MITCHELL v MOHAMMED KUDOS
The Palace left back has been expected to change his game to a wing back since Oliver Glasner came to the club and his is slowly transitioning his game. he will be up against a tricky attacker who will provide a test at the London Stadium. 

 

PRE-MATCH STATS

This is the section of our match preview where we keep a tally on the statistics for Palace players as the campaign continues and how they compare to other Premier League players.

Goals Jean-Philippe MATETA 6 (22nd)
Assists Ebere EZE (17th)
Passes Marc GUEHI 1058 (22nd)
Tackles Daniel MUNOZ 75 (1st)
Touches Marc GUEHI 1337 (23rd)
Shots Ebere EZE 58 (5th)
Fouls Will HUGHES 36 (9th)
Dispossessed Ismaila SARR, Jean-Philippe MATETA 27 (25th)
Saves Dean HENDERSON 61 (7th)
Clearances Maxence LACROIX 95 (9th)
Big Chances Missed Jean-Philippe MATETA 11 (5th)

 

TEB PREDICTION

The hosts are in transition with a new manager at the helm but they got the much needed victory against Fulham in midweek. In contrast, the Eagles are in great form but will need to improve on that poor first half against Leicester in midweek. A three game week comes to an end with this fixture and we can see this ending with the point shared. 

PREDICTED SCORE: 1-1
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