Crystal Palace vs Southampton Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
📊Crystal Palace have won just three of their 22 Premier League matches against Southampton (D6 L13), with this the first time they've met on the opening day.
📊Southampton have won their last three away Premier League visits to Crystal Palace without conceding a single goal; Saints have never won four consecutive away top-flight matches against an opponent. Although this is their first Premier League meeting on the opening day,
📊Crystal Palace and Southampton did meet on MD1 in 2007-08 in the Championship, with the Eagles winning 4-1 at St. Mary's and James Scowcroft scoring a hat-trick.
📊The home side hasn't won any of the last six Premier League meetings between Crystal Palace and Southampton (D2 L4).
📊The hosts had won five in a row in this fixture prior to this run. In the six opening day Premier League matches when Crystal Palace have played at home, they are yet to win (D2 L4); their last top-flight win at home on opening day came back in 1971-72, winning 2-0o against Newcastle United.
📊Among teams to have played in at least 10 Premier League seasons, Southampton have the worst win percentage on MD1 in the comeptition, winning just two out of 21 (9.5%).
📊Crystal Palace have won fewer points than any other current Premier League side in 2020 (16-W4 D4 L10), while Southampton have won 30 (W9 D3 L6), the sixth-best tally this calendar year.
📊Only the top two finishing sides Liverpool and Manchester City won more away Premier League games and away Premier League points than Southampton last season, with Saints' nine wins and 31 points on the road in 2019-20 both top-flight records for the club.
📊Southampton striker Danny Ings scored 22 Premier League goals last season, the most by a Saints player since James Beattie in 2002-03 (23).
📊Ings has been directly involved in 14 goals in his last 14 away Premier League starts (12 goals, 2 assists).
📊Jordan Ayew scored in 64% of Crystal Palace's Premier League victories last season (7/11), with the Eagles remaining unbeaten in all nine games in which the Ghanaian scored (W7 D2).
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