Everton vs Crystal Palace: Premier League – BBC Sport

Everton have lost just one of their last 19 Premier League meetings with Crystal Palace (W9 D9), a 3-1 defeat at Selhurst Park in December 2021.

After winning four of their first six Premier League away games against Everton (L2), Crystal Palace are winless in their last nine visits to Goodison Park in the league (D4 L5).

Everton are winless in their last six Premier League games (D1 L5), despite taking the lead in four of those games (D1 L3). The Toffees have dropped more points from winning positions this season than any other team in the Premier League (8).

Crystal Palace remain winless in the Premier League this season, even though their last three games have been drawn (L2). They have not played four consecutive league matches under Patrick Vieira since October 2021.

This is Crystal Palace’s first Premier League match to take place outside London so far this season. The Eagles have won their last two such games (1-0 against Liverpool, 3-1 against Wolves), last winning in a row between February and May 2019 (4).

Everton have lost both home games in the Premier League so far this season. Only four times in their history have they ever lost their first three at home in a single league match, although one of those was last season (also 1958-59, 2005-06 and 2008-09).

At 28 years and 289 days, Everton have fielded the average oldest starting XI in the Premier League so far this season. Meanwhile, no team has made more changes to their starting XI this season than Crystal Palace (11).

Everton’s Dominic Calvert-Lewin has made more off-the-ball runs than any other player in the Premier League this season (173). However, only 39 of these have been in the opposition box, the second lowest percentage of all 24 players with more than 100 runs (22.5%).

Everton’s Dwight McNeil has created more chances (20) and more big chances (6) than any other player in the Premier League so far this season.

No player has been involved in more team shots this season than Crystal Palace’s Eberechi Eze (30 – 10 chances created + 20 shots).