Crystal Palace vs Leicester City Matchday Stats Preview
Crystal Palace vs Leicester City Matchday Stats Preview
Crystal Palace have won nine Premier League games against Leicester – against no side have they beaten more times in the competition.
Leicester lost 2-1 the last time they faced Crystal Palace in the Premier League (April 2023), having been unbeaten in their previous seven against the Eagles beforehand (W4 D3).
Since drawing consecutive home games 0-0 in September/October last season, Crystal Palace’s last 16 at Selhurst Park in the Premier League have seen 59 goals scored (F34 A25, 3.7 per game). Only Chelsea (63) and Manchester City’s (60) home games have seen more goals in the competition since the first game in that run (27th October).
Leicester City have only opened the scoring in two of their last 24 Premier League games, conceding first in all three so far this season. Only in 1994-95 and 2001-02 have the Foxes conceded the first goal in each of their first four games in a Premier League season, being relegated in both of those campaigns.
Crystal Palace have conceded first in each of their three Premier League games so far this season (D1 L2), already one more than in their 13 such games under Oliver Glasner last term. The Eagles are yet to win a Premier League game under the Austrian in which they’ve trailed (D2 L5).
Leicester City have won just two of their last 16 Premier League games in London (D3 L11), conceding 40 goals during that run (2.5 per game).
Only Bournemouth (50) have recorded more pressed sequences in the Premier League this season than Crystal Palace (42), while only Nottingham Forest (10) have recorded more direct attacks than the Eagles’ nine.
Since 24th February – Oliver Glasner’s first game in charge – only Phil Foden (5) has scored more Premier League goals from outside the penalty area than Crystal Palace’s Eberechi Eze (4). Indeed, since the start of 2020-21, only James Ward-Prowse (13), Kevin De Bruyne (12) and Son Heung-min (11) have more such goals than his 10.
Crystal Palace striker Jean-Philippe Mateta has made more targeted runs into the box than any other player in the Premier League so far this season (14).
Only Bruno Guimarães (16) has won more fouls in the Premier League this season than Leicester City’s Abdul Fatawu (10), seven of which have been following an attempted take-on, more than any other player.
