Crystal Palace and Southampton are going to take on on Wednesday the 15th of December at 7:30 pm in the 17th week of the Premier League. The match is going to take place in London at the Selhurst Park. The chosen referee is Simon Hooper.
Crystal Palace occupies the 12th place in the standings with 19 points. It comes from a 3-1 win against Everton in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 4 times, draw 7 times, and lost 5 times.
Southampton occupies the 16th place in the table with 16 points. It comes from a 3-0 loss against Arsenal in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 3 times, draw 7 times, and lost 6 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (12 times or 75.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (12 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times) and 4-4-2 (once).
Patrick Vieira is expected to play against Southampton with the following players: V. Guaita Panadero, T. Mitchell, M. Guehi, J. Ward, C. Kouyaté, L. Milivojević, C. Gallagher, M. Olise, W. Zaha and C. Benteke Liolo.
Granting that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Crystal Palace would be 27.20.
There are doubts about the presence of J. Andersen.
N. Ferguson and J. McArthur will definitely miss the match.
Southampton
Southampton has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (14 times or 87.50%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (14 times), 3-4-3 (once) and 4-1-4-1 (once).
Ralph Hasenhüttl is expected to play against Crystal Palace with the following players: K. Walker-Peters, J. Bednarek, M. Karim, V. Livramento, W. Smallbone, N. Tella, J. Ward-Prowse, O. Romeu Vidal, M. Elyounoussi and N. Redmond.
Granting that the line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Southampton would be 24.40.
There are doubts about the presence of A. Broja.
Ralph Hasenhüttl will probably not be able to employ A. Armstrong because of injury.
F. Forster, A. McCarthy, S. Armstrong, M. Djenepo and C. Adams will definitely miss the match.
