Crystal Palace and Brighton & Hove Albion are going to clash on Thursday the 21st of December at 8:00 pm in the 18th week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in London at the Selhurst Park. The encounter will be officiated by John Brooks.
Crystal Palace occupies the 15th position in the league with 17 points. It comes from a 2-2 draw against Manchester City in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 4 times, draw 5 times, and lost 8 times.
Brighton & Hove Albion occupies the 9th place in the table with 26 points. It comes from a 2-0 loss against Arsenal in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 6 times, draw 6 times, and lost 5 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (12 times or 70.59%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (12 times), 4-3-3 (4 times) and 5-4-1 (once).
Roy Hodgson is expected to play against Brighton & Hove Albion with the following players: Dean Henderson, Tyrick Mitchell, Joachim Andersen, Marc Guéhi, Nathaniel Clyne, Jeffrey Schlupp, Chris Richards, Eberechi Eze, Michael Olise, Jordan Ayew and Jean-Philippe Mateta.
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the average age of Crystal Palace would be 26.45.
Roy Hodgson will probably not be able to employ Sam Johnstone, Joel Ward, Will Hughes, Jefferson Lerma, Jesurun Rak-Sakyi and Odsonne Édouard because of injury.
Nathan Ferguson, Rob Holding and Cheick Doucouré will definitely miss the match.
Brighton & Hove Albion
Brighton & Hove Albion has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (14 times or 82.35%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (14 times) and 3-4-2-1 (3 times).
Roberto De Zerbi is expected to play against Crystal Palace with the following players: Jason Steele, James Milner, Jan Paul van Hecke, Lewis Dunk , Pascal Groß, Billy Gilmour, Kaoru Mitoma, Simon Adingra, João Pedro and Evan Ferguson.
Assuming that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Brighton & Hove Albion would be 26.70.
Roberto De Zerbi will probably not be able to employ Joël Veltman because of injury.
Pervis Estupiñán , Tariq Lamptey , Solly March , Adam Webster , Julio Enciso and Ansu Fati will definitely miss the match.