Crystal Palace vs Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📶
Crystal Palace are winless in their last 10 Premier League meetings with Tottenham, with their 1-1 draw in this exact fixture last season ending a run of nine straight league defeats against them.
Tottenham have kept a clean sheet in 12 of their last 22 Premier League meetings with Crystal Palace (including eight in the last 10). Of all teams they’ve faced more than 10 times in the competition, they’ve not conceded in the highest % of games against the Eagles (55%).
20 of Tottenham’s last 25 Premier League goals against Crystal Palace have been scored in the second half of games. However, all five of their strikes against them last season came in the opening 45 minutes.
Crystal Palace have hit at least four goals in two of their last four Premier League games – 4-1 and 5-1 wins over Leeds and West Brom respectively – having managed that feat just three times in their first 117 games under Roy Hodgson.
Spurs manager Jose Mourinho has won 40 of his 63 Premier League London derbies (64%), the highest ratio of any manager to manage at least 20 in the Premier League. However, he is winless in his last two London derbies versus Crystal Palace (D1 L1).
Crystal Palace have lost 18 of their last 22 home Premier League matches against teams starting the day in the top-four of the league (W1 D3), with their only win that run coming in Roy Hodgson’s first win as Eagles boss in October 2017 against Chelsea.
Crystal Palace striker Christian Benteke scored twice in his last Premier League appearance against West Brom, as many as he’d scored in his previous 31. The Belgian hasn’t scored in consecutive league appearances since April 2017.
Crystal Palace have scored more goals in their last two Premier League games with Wilfried Zaha in the starting XI (9) than in their previous 19 without him in the line-up (7), a run stretching back to January 2017.
Tottenham duo Son Heung-min and Harry Kane have combined for 11 Premier League goals this season, with only Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton (13 in 1994/95) and Ryan Fraser and Callum Wilson (12 in 2018/19) combining for more in a single campaign. Prior to this season, the most goals two players had combined for in a club’s first 11 matches of a season was Shearer/Sutton for Blackburn in 1994/95 and Thierry Henry/Reyes for Arsenal in 2004/05 (6 goals).
Harry Kane has scored 20 goals and assisted 11 in 29 Premier League appearances under Jose Mourinho at Tottenham, averaging a goal or assist every 83 minutes. Since 2004/05, among the 175 players to play at least five league games under Mourinho the only two with a better average goal/assist ratio under Mourinho are Cristiano Ronaldo (one ever 59 minutes) and Gonzalo Higuaín (one every 72 minutes).
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