Bournemouth vs Crystal Palace - prediction, team news, lineups

Two managers who person decided to question pastures caller successful the summertime volition butt heads astatine the Vitality Stadium connected Sunday afternoon, arsenic Andoni Iraola’s Bournemouth play big to Oliver Glasner’s Crystal Palace.

A six-goal thriller was played retired betwixt these 2 teams successful the reverse fixture astatine Selhurst Park, with Jean-Philippe Mateta completing his hat-trick with a 97th-minute equaliser for the Eagles.

Match preview

It is just to accidental that Bournemouth are the Premier League’s stalemate specialists this season, arsenic they person drawn 16 of their 34 matches, astatine slightest 3 much than immoderate different squad successful the division, astir precocious letting 2 one-goal leads gaffe successful a 2-2 location draw with Leeds United past weekend.

Nevertheless, the Cherries person extended their awesome club-record unbeaten tally successful the apical formation to 14 matches (W6 D8) and stay firmly successful contention to unafraid European shot for the archetypal clip successful their history, arsenic they beryllium seventh successful the table and lone 1 constituent down Brighton successful sixth.

Only 2 teams successful Premier League past person ever finished extracurricular of the apical six aft putting unneurotic a 14+ crippled unbeaten runs wrong a azygous play – Wimbledon successful 1996-97 (14 games, eighth) and Chelsea successful 2015-16 (15 games, 10th) – but Bournemouth cannot remainder connected their laurels successful their last 4 games against Palace, Fulham, Man City and Nottingham Forest if they privation to springiness Iraola the cleanable send-off.

Watched connected by incoming brag Marco Rose, Bournemouth cognize that they volition beryllium much apt to support clasp of immoderate of their prima players if they suffice for Europe this season, with teenage guardant Eli Junior Kroupi, midfield maestro Alex Scott and cardinal defender Marcos Senesi among those who person been linked with transfers distant from the nine successful caller months.

The Cherries caput into Sunday's contention having mislaid lone 2 of their 17 Premier League location games this play (W6 D9), portion they are besides unbeaten successful their past 5 top-flight battles with Crystal Palace (W2 D3) having antecedently mislaid 5 successful a enactment against the Eagles.

Four years connected from steering Eintracht Frankfurt to Europa League glory, Oliver Glasner has moved a measurement person to guiding Crystal Palace into this season’s Conference League showpiece aft overseeing a 3-1 first-leg victory against Shakhtar Donetsk successful their semi-final connected Thursday.

Ismaila Sarr scored the fastest extremity successful Conference League history aft conscionable 21 seconds, portion second-half strikes from Daichi Kamada and Jorgen Strand Larsen helped the Eagles soar to occurrence successful Poland, contempt having lone 31% possession connected the night.

The Conference League is Palace’s precedence heading into the last fewer weeks of the season, but Glasner volition not privation to constitute disconnected the anticipation of securing the club’s 3rd top-10 decorativeness successful the Premier League era, with conscionable six points separating the Eagles successful 13th from Sunday’s opponents Bournemouth successful seventh spot.

Palace were beaten 3-1 by Liverpool astatine Anfield past weekend, ending a four-game unbeaten tally successful the Premier League, and they person present suffered decision 7 times successful their past 13 top-flight distant matches (W5 D1), arsenic galore losses connected the roadworthy arsenic successful their archetypal 28 games nether Glasner (W11 D10).

The Eagles person kept 5 cleanable sheets successful their past 8 distant encounters with Bournemouth, though, claiming 2 2-0 victories and playing retired a goalless stalemate successful 3 of their past 4 visits to the Vitality Stadium.

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Team News

Bournemouth attacker Justin Kluivert has returned to first-team training this week aft recovering from a genu wounded that has kept him sidelined since January 3. The Dutchman whitethorn beryllium acceptable to instrumentality to the matchday squad, and the aforesaid tin beryllium said for Lewis Cook and Julio Soler (both thigh).

Iraola whitethorn determine to sanction an unchanged starting lineup, but 1 alteration helium is apt to see is the instrumentality of January signing Rayan, who scored against Leeds past clip out, astatine the disbursal of David Brooks connected the close flank.

Eli Junior Kroupi scored a brace successful the 3-3 gully with Palace earlier this play and besides recovered the nett against Leeds, moving him onto a team-high 11 goals successful each competitions. The in-demand 19-year-old is expected to clasp his starting spot successful down cardinal striker Evanilson.

As for Crystal Palace, Evann Guessand (knee), Eddie Nketiah (thigh) and Cheick Doucoure (muscle) each stay successful the attraction country with injuries, though the erstwhile is making advancement successful his betterment and whitethorn instrumentality earlier the extremity of the season.

With 1 oculus connected adjacent week’s European 2nd leg, Glasner volition see resting immoderate of his cardinal players including apical scorer Sarr – 18 goals successful each competitions – and Mateta, with Brennan Johnson and Strand Larsen successful contention to instrumentality their places successful attack.

Having precocious recovered from an Achilles problem, Tyrick Mitchell’s minutes could beryllium managed and Borna Sosa whitethorn get the motion to play astatine near wing-back, portion Will Hughes and ex-Bournemouth antheral Jefferson Lerma are some contenders to commencement successful centre-midfield.

Bournemouth imaginable starting lineup:

Petrovic; Jimenez, Hill, Senesi, Truffert; Christie, Scott; Rayan, Kroupi, Tavernier; Evanilson

Crystal Palace imaginable starting lineup:

Henderson; Richards, Lacroix, Canvot; Munoz, Lerma, Hughes, Sosa; Pino, Johnson; Strand Larsen

We say: Bournemouth 2-1 Crystal Palace

Each of the past 3 head-to-head meetings betwixt Bournemouth and Crystal Palace person ended each square, and different choky contention could beryllium successful store this weekend.

However, taking into relationship the Cherries’ formidable unbeaten run, and the imaginable of Palace protecting cardinal assets for their continental 2nd leg, we are backing the hosts to assertion 3 invaluable points to boost their top-seven hopes.

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