Crystal Palace VS Tottenham Hotspur Match Prediction
2018-02-25
12:00:00
Crystal Palace
VS
Tottenham Hotspur
Our Prediction Tip
Tottenham Hotspur will win this match.
2018-02-2512:00:00 Tottenham Hotspur will win this match.
Tottenham have won each of the last three league fixtures between these teams 1-0. Son Heung-Min scored the winner at Wembley in November, while last season it was Christian Eriksen and Victor Wanyama on the score sheet in the two matches. Here are the results of their last five matches:
Nov 05, 2017: Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Crystal Palace
Apr 26, 2017: Crystal Palace 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur
Aug 20, 2016: Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Crystal Palace
Feb 21, 2016: Tottenham Hotspur 0-1 Crystal Palace
Jan 23, 2016: Crystal Palace 1-3 Tottenham Hotspur
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Unbeaten since losing to league leaders Manchester City in December, Spurs have held Liverpool, beaten Arsenal and drawn 2-2 at Juventus already this month.
While Rochdale's last-minute equaliser in the FA Cup will be a source of embarrassment, Spurs can get that out of their system quickly when they face Crystal Palace.
They have won their last three matches against Palace without conceding, all 1-0, and with Palace struggling for goals - and suffering several injuries to key players - it is a winning streak that really should be continuing.
Harry Kane is in scintillating goalscoring form, while Spurs are now spoiled for choice behind him with Erik Lamela and Lucas Moura both pushing for starting places.
Kane has ten goals in his last nine appearances, and four in his last four in all competitions, and with Palace missing several players at the back they will find it hard to stop the England striker.
While the three previous fixtures have ended in 1-0 Spurs wins, this could be a heavier defeat for Palace despite their home form under Roy Hodgson.
Tottenham are odds-on favourites to beat Crystal Palace, but a best price of 3/4 from William Hill is pretty generous given their unbeaten form and Palace's injury problems.
The Eagles are missing creative players such as Wilfried Zaha and Bakary Sako, and so a Tottenham win to nil - at 6/4 with Bet365 - is also a good bet.
You can bet against both teams to score at 19/20 with Ladbrokes, meanwhile, and it will be little surprise to learn Harry Kane is 8/11 to score at any time given his goalscoring form.
He has not scored in Spurs' three recent 1-0 wins against Palace, however, and so it may be worth looking around.
Lucas Moura scored on his full debut last weekend, and he is a best price of 9/4 to score at any time against Crystal Palace with Betfair.
Tottenham may have drawn with Rochdale at the weekend, but they will be back to full strength at the weekend - a luxury Roy Hodgson does not have given his long injury list at Palace. Spurs will win, and should win comfortably.
Crystal Palace have been hit hard by injuries this season, with Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Jason Puncheon, Scott Dann, Jeffrey Schlupp, Bakary Sako, Wilfried Zaha and Julian Speroni all suffering bad injuries in the last couple of months. Mamadou Sakho is due to return from a calf strain, however.
Despite Crystal Palace' poor run of form, Luka Milivojevic has scored three times in the last four matches, including penalties in each of the last two. He now has seven for the season.
Crystal Palace are without a win since beating Burnley 1-0 last month. Since then, they have lost 4-1 away to Arsenal, drawn 1-1 with both West Ham and Newcastle and then, two weeks ago in their most recent game, lost 3-1 at Everton.
Lucas Moura scored on his full debut against Rochdale, and could start in the Premier League for the first time as a result. Toby Alderweireld is still struggling to regain fitness, and he may be rested with the view to giving him 90 minutes in the Rochdale replay in mid-week. Serge Aurier and Ben Davies may return at full-back in place of Danny Rose and Kieran Trippier - an area Mauricio Pochettino has liked to tinker with this season.
Harry Kane now has 34 goals in 35 games this season, as he continues to lead Spurs' forward line in style. Lucas Moura scored on his full debut, and will hope to link up with an attacking unit that already includes Heung-Min Son (11 goals, eight assists), Dele Alli (nine goals, 13 assists) and Christian Eriksen (nine goals, eight assists).
After a stunning comeback to draw 2-2 with Juventus in Turin, Tottenham were then embarrassed in the FA Cup as League One strugglers Rochdale scored a last-minute equaliser to force a replay - the second time a lower-league team has taken them to a replay in this year's competition, after Newport County. Nevertheless, it is now 14 games unbeaten for Spurs, since their crushing 4-1 defeat at Manchester City before Christmas.
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