West Ham vs Crystal Palace: Preview and Prediction

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Match Preview:

The Hammers started poorly but have slowly become one of the surprise teams in the early weeks of the Premier League.

They are in 5^th place and unbeaten since the opening weekend of the league. Their last match ended in a 2-2 draw with Bournemouth which was seen as a respectable result because Eddie Howe’s team have been in good form and West Ham were losing that game.

The Hammer’s last home game ended in a 2-0 victory over Manchester United which would have been a superb injection of confidence and at home once you take out the nightmare defeat by Manchester City they are doing well, having scored 4 goals in their other two games and shipped none.

Manuel Pellegrini can call on more players compared to last season where so many were out injured for a long time and a win here could see the London team climb into the top 4.

Crystal Palace have also started well and have 11 points and would pass West Ham with a win here. They beat Norwich last weekend and are currently on a 2 game unbeaten run. They have collected 10 points from their last 15 and have been impressive for a team that were amongst the favourites to struggle this season at the beginning of the season.

Team News:

West Ham: Big injury news for the Hammers in the form of Lukasz Fabianski who has a hip injury and has been ruled out for the rest of 2019. He is the only new injury concern for the club

Crystal Palace: Mamadou Sakho is back after the international break with an ongoing muscle injury. Connor Wickham is out with fitness issues and Luka Milivojevic has a 1 game ban and misses this match

West Ham vs Crystal Palace Head to Head:

Last season West Ham won this fixture 3-2.

Home or away it has been 9 games since Palace last beat West Ham.

The last 4 meetings has seen both teams to score.

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