West Ham vs Crystal Palace Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 18th January 2025

When Crystal Palace come to London Stadium for the Premier League match on Saturday, West Ham will be hoping to use their home advantage to their advantage.

Ranked as number 12 in the Premier League standings, West Ham, have so far collected 26 points this season, while Crystal Palace collected 24 points. This puts them up as number 14 after 21 rounds.

Going into their upcoming encounter on Saturday, The Eagles are looking to finish the day ahead of West Ham in the Premier League standings.

West Ham are relatively average in the art of goal-scoring these days. They scored a steady 14 goals in their previous ten matches, for an average of 1.4 per game. They simultaneously allowed their opponents 22 goals, or an average of 2.2 a game. Furthermore, they fought their way to two clean sheets in this run.

Crystal Palace are currently decent goalscorers, as they managed a bearable 15 goals in the past ten outings for an average of 1.5 goals a game. Their opponents scored a total of 13 goals, and while Crystal Palace claimed three clean sheets, they conceded an average of 1.3 goals per match.

Crystal Palace lost 2-0 against West Ham in their latest encounter. This served as pay back for the 5-2 defeat, Crystal Palace handed out in the match before.

West Ham vs Crystal Palace Prediction

West Ham Form

In their last three games, West Ham lost 4-1 against Manchester City, got defeated 2-1 by Aston Villa before winning 3-2 against Fulham. West Ham only pulled off two wins from a possible six in recent Premier League matches on home soil. Of the remaining four matches, they drew two and lost two, as they scored eight and conceded 14 goals.

Crystal Palace Form

Crystal Palace look well suited to take on any opponent as their last three matches ended with a draw and two wins. They started off drawing 1-1 with Chelsea, before downing first Stockport County by 1-0, then Leicester in a 0-2 win. Crystal Palace managed a decent return of three wins in their last six Premier League away matches, in which they scored ten while also conceding five times. They also experienced three draws and zero defeats.

Both West Ham and Crystal Palace have been scoring freely over the past weeks, and we anticipate a very entertaining match. They usually throw caution to the wind, when clashing with each other.

West Ham recorded 13 points following four wins from their last six games against teams placed among the bottom six. They scored ten goals, but also conceded six. West Ham have a record of seven wins, five draws and nine defeats in the Premier League this season. Crystal Palace have a record of five wins, nine draws and seven defeats in the Premier League.

West Ham vs Crystal Palace Squads

West Ham Squad

Potter will select the starting XI for the upcoming match against Crystal Palace from the following players (the statistics in the brackets represent goals scored and matches played in the Premier League this season):

Alphonse Areola (0/11), Lukasz Fabianski (0/12), Wesley Foderingham (0/0), Aaron Cresswell (0/7), Aaron Wan-Bissaka (2/20), Emerson (1/19), Jean-Clair Todibo (0/15), Kaelan Casey (0/0), Konstantinos Mavropanos (0/18), Max Kilman (0/21), Vladimir Coufal (0/13), Andy Irving (0/7), Carlos Soler (1/16), Crysencio Summerville (1/19), Edson Alvarez (0/17), Guido Rodriguez (0/17), Lucas Paqueta (4/20), Luis Guilherme (0/4), Mohammed Kudus (3/16), Oliver Scarles (0/3), Tomas Soucek (5/19), Danny Ings (1/11), Jarrod Bowen (5/19), Lewis Orford (0/0), Michail Antonio (1/14), Niclas Fuellkrug (2/9).

Crystal Palace Squad

Below is the full team squad of Crystal Palace. The manager Glasner will pick his starting XI against West Ham from these players:

Dean Henderson (0/21), Louie Moulden (0/0), Matt Turner (0/0), Remi Matthews (0/0), Chadi Riad (0/1), Chris Richards (0/10), Daniel Munoz (2/20), Joel Ward (0/0), Marc Guehi (3/20), Maxence Lacroix (1/18), Nathaniel Clyne (0/9), Rob Holding (0/0), Tyrick Mitchell (0/21), Adam Wharton (0/8), Caleb Kporha (0/2), Cheick Oumar Doucoure (0/13), Daichi Kamada (0/17), Jefferson Lerma (0/17), Jeffrey Schlupp (0/11), Justin Devenny (1/9), Will Hughes (0/18), Eberechi Eze (2/17), Edward Nketiah (0/15), Franco Umeh-Chibueze (0/0), Ismaila Sarr (4/21), Jean-Philippe Mateta (6/21), Matheus Franca (0/0).

West Ham vs Crystal Palace Team News

West Ham just have a single unavailable player for squad selection, when facing Crystal Palace at London Stadium. There is no need for Edson Alvarez to show up in the West Ham dressing room, as he is suspended.

At the time of writing, Crystal Palace just have two players on the injured and absent list, as they prepare for their match this coming Saturday. Ismaila Sarr is suspended from the Crystal Palace squad with too many penalty points to his name.

Cheick Oumar Doucoure won't be travelling with Crystal Palace this time, as he nurses an injury.

West Ham vs Crystal Palace Lineups

West Ham vs Crystal Palace H2H

Crystal Palace were knocked out cold when West Ham took a 2-0 win in their latest encounter. It served as pay back for the 5-2 defeat, Crystal Palace handed out in the game before. West Ham enter the match against Crystal Palace with a 3-3-4 record in their previous ten encounters. A win rate of 30%, which is perhaps worth keeping in mind before you make a choice for your next accumulator, depending on your betting strategy.

West Ham vs Crystal Palace Results

Under 2.5 goals came out a winning bet only three times in ten matches between West Ham and Crystal Palace. Over 2.5 goals is best priced at odds of 4/5 with the bookies this coming Saturday.

West Ham vs Crystal Palace Betting Tips

Lucas Paqueta is the most prolific Premier League marksman for the home team, scoring twice recently. The Eagles look to Ismaila Sarr, hoping he can add to his current total of three Premier League goals in his latest games.

West Ham claimed a modest four wins from their previous 10 home matches across all tournaments. They split the points with the visiting team in two of the games, whilst losing four. Crystal Palace won four of their last 10 games away, drew three and lost three of the games in this run. Goals are usually flowing for West Ham on home soil these days, and at both ends of pitch. Both teams found the back of the net in seven of their last 10 matches here. In contrast, both teams to score happened six times for Crystal Palace in their last 10 league games away from home.

Both teams to score was a winning bet nine times in the last ten encounters between these two rivals, while at least four goals happened five times. West Ham managed an average of 1.9 goals, while Crystal Palace averaged 2.1 goals a game. West Ham saw over 2.5 goals in seven of their last ten matches across all tournaments, as they scored an average of 1.3 goals during this run. Over 2.5 goals came up in five of Crystal Palace's previous ten matches across all tournaments. They managed to score an average of 1.5 goals in these matches.