| Referee | Tim Robinson |
| Assistant | Tim Wood |
| Assistant | Steve Meredith |
| Fourth Official | Tony Harrington |
| VAR | Alex Chilowicz |
| Assistant VAR | Lee Betts |
Eagles Return To Scene of Cup Joy For Tough Villa Fixture
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Following the League Cup victory at Villa Park last month which has had a lasting effect on Palace, the hosts will likely be keen to return the favour in this league match up.
MATCH INFORMATION
| 23 November 2024 – 3pm |
| Villa Park, Trinity Road, Birmingham B6 6HE |
PREVIOUS MEETING
| 16/09/2023 – The last time Palace made the trip in the Premier League, it looked like the visitors were going to return with all three points following an early second half goal from Odsonne Edouard. But an equaliser from John Duran with three minutes left to play and two goals in injury time, spot kick by Douglas Luiz and a Leon Bailey strike saw the hots take all three points |
| WHO SCORED MAN OF THE MATCH – Douglas Luiz (7.9) |
MATCH OFFICIALS
TEAM NEWS
PALACE – Chadi Riad, Matheus Franca, Daichi Kamada, Jefferson Lerma, Adam Wharton, and Rob Holding may all continue to miss out. Ebere Eze and Eddie Nketiah are expected to be assessed.
VILLA – Ross Barkley, Matty Cash, and Jacob Ramsay are expected to miss this fixture. Amadou Onana, Boubacar Kamara, Paul Torres, Ezri Konsa and Ian Maatsen will be assessed ahead of the game.
DISCIPLINARY RECORD
This is the section of our match preview that highlights those that have not been the best of friends with match officials as the season goes on. Of course, they all begin with a clean slate, but we will start to see those that will be heading for a ban or two as the campaign progresses.
| RED CARDS – Daichi Kamada (1), Jaden Philogene (1) |
| YELLOW CARDS (over 3.5) – Will Hughes (5), Daniel Munoz (4) |
FORM GUIDE
Last FIVE meetings between the two sides;
| 30/10/2024 | Villa 1-2 Palace |
| 19/05/2024 | Palace 5-0 Villa |
| 16/09/2023 | Villa 3-1 Villa |
| 04/03/2023 | Villa 1-0 Palace |
| 20/08/2022 | Palace 3-1 Villa |
Last FIVE results for Palace:
| 09/11/2024 | Palace 0-2 Fulham |
| 02/11/2024 | Wolves 2-2 Palace |
| 30/10/2024 | Villa 1-2 Palace |
| 27/10/2024 | Palace 1-0 Spurs |
| 21/10/2024 | Forest 1-0 Palace |
Last FIVE results for Villa;
| 09/11/2024 | Liverpool 2-0 Villa |
| 06/11/2024 | Club Bruges 1-0 Villa |
| 03/11/2024 | Spurs 4-1 Villa |
| 30/10/2024 | Villa 1-2 Palace |
| 26/10/2024 | Villa 1-1 Bournemouth |
LEAGUE POSITION
Heading into the fixture, Palace are 18th in the Premier League with 7 points from 11 games played, while Villa are 9th with 18 points from the same amount of games.
RECORD AGAINST VILLA
| Played | 54 |
| Won | 16 |
| Drawn | 15 |
| Lost | 23 |
FORM PLAYERS ACCORDING TO WHO SCORED
This is the section of our match preview where we list two players from each side that are top of the ratings by our friends over at Who Scored. Obviously, there are no ratings to share at the moment but that will soon change!
| Youri Tielemans | 7.16 |
| Ebere Eze | 6.97 |
| Trevoh Chalobah | 6.97 |
| Lucas Digne, Morgan Rogers | 6.86 |
ONE TO WATCH
| MORGAN ROGERS |
| FORMER CLUBS – West Bromwich Albion, Manchester City, Lincoln City (loan), AFC Bournemouth (loan), Blackpool (loan), Middlesbrough |
| The young Villa forward returns to league action after picking up his first couple of caps for England in the Nations League during the international break. |
KEY CLASH
| MARC GUEHI v OLLIE WATKINS |
| The England international teammates will face each other in this fixture and will both been keen on getting the upper hand on the other. It is easy to forget that Guehi is now a permanent fixture in the England back line having made over 20 appearances for his country so far. |
THE NUMBERS
Villa's only defeat in 12 Premier League home matches against Palace came on Boxing Day 2013 (W7, D4). Villa have kept 6 clean sheets and never conceded more than once in any of those meetings.
Palace won this fixture 5-0 at Selhurst Park on the final day of last season and triumphed 2-1 at Villa Park in the League Cup fourth round last month.
The Eagles can remain winless after 6 Premier League away games of a season for the second time. It took them 9 attempts to earn a first away victory in 2017-18.
Palace's tally of 7 points from 11 matches is their third lowest at this stage of a Premier League season. They had four points in both 2013 and 2017.
Oliver Glasner's side have led for just 104 minutes in the league this season; only West Ham United have fared worse.
Their solitary victory in the last 14 league fixtures without Eberechi Eze was by 3-0 at home to Burnley in February (D5, L8).
Jean-Philippe Mateta has 16 goals in 24 Premier League appearances under Glasner, including a hat-trick against Aston Villa on the final day of last season. Only 2 of those goals were scored in away games.
PRE-MATCH STATS
This is the section of our match preview where we keep a tally on the statistics for Palace players as the campaign continues and how they compare to other Premier League players.
| Goals | Jean-Philippe MATETA 3 (25th) |
| Assists | Ebere EZE, Maxence LACROIX, Tyrick MITCHELL, Dnaiel MUNOZ 1 (59th) |
| Passes | Marc GUEHI 598 (20th) |
| Tackles | Daniel MUNOZ 38 (2nd) |
| Touches | Marc GUEHI 761 (21st) |
| Shots | Ebere EZE 37 (3rd) |
| Fouls | Daniel MUNOZ 19 (7th) |
| Dispossessed | Ebere EZE 13 (35th) |
| Saves | Dean HENDERSON 39 (6th) |
| Clearances | Marc GUEHI 66 (1st) |
| Big Chances Missed | Ebere EZE, Jean-Philippe MATETA 5 (10th) |
TEB PREDICTION
Much will depend on whether Oliver Glasner will have any reinforcements back available as there has been a real negative impact after the League Cup win over this weekend’s opponents. However, the hosts are on a run of no wins in four games, two of those in the Premier League and they will be keen to get back to winning ways. With the expectation that the starting line up will be similar to that in the loss to Fulham, it is hard to see anything other than a victory for Villa.
| PREDICTED SCORE: 2-1 to Villa |
RESOURCES
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