Crystal Palace visit West Brom on Sunday lunchtime with the hosts knowing a win will move them out the Premier League relegation zone.
The Baggies are currently one point behind Fulham and can overtake them into 17th if they beat Roy Hodgson’s south Londoners at the Hawthorns.
Palace, meanwhile, have their sights set higher with a victory for the Eagles taking them into 11th place, ahead of Arsenal, Leeds and Aston Villa.
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It promises to be an entertaining clash in the Midlands, and talkSPORT brings you full LIVE commentary from the Hawthorns!
West Brom vs Crystal Palace: How to listen
This Premier League clash will get under way at 12pm on Sunday, December 6.
Full coverage from the Hawthorns will be live on talkSPORT, with our coverage starting at 11pm.
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West Brom vs Crystal Palace: Team news
West Brom: Johnstone, Furlong, Ajayi, Ivanovic, Bartley, Phillips, Matheus Pereira, Gallagher, Sawyers, Diangana, Ahearne-Grant
Subs: Gibbs, Robinson, Grosicki, Austin, Krovinovic, Button, O’Shea
Crystal Palace: Guaita, Clyne, Kouyate, Cahill, van Aanholt, Schlupp, Milivojevic, McArthur, Eze, Benteke, Zaha
Subs: Butland, Ward, Ayew, Townsend, Sakho, Batshuayi, Riedewald.
West Brom vs Crystal Palace: What has been said
Slaven Bilic: “It’s not easy. It’s never nice no matter if you are a new manager or if you are an experienced manager. But of course over the years you can take it as a little bit less worrying.
“But you are not as happy after the win as you are down after the defeat. The defeat, it hurts you physically. After the win, you are happy, you are celebrating, but the defeat kills you.
“Especially as a manager, it drains you because now you know that you have to spread your energy to the players to lift them up, and it takes its toll, it takes energy because everything is in your head.
“It’s a little bit easier now because when you do something for 15, 20 years, it’s easier, I suppose. But you can never be comfortable with a defeat if you love the job, if you are passionate.”
Roy Hodgson: “I have a great deal of affection for the club. I have been very fortunate, all of the clubs I have worked for in England I have a lot of affection for.
“The West Brom supporters and people around the club were very good to me and supportive.
“I found myself taking charge of a very responsive group of players just like I have here at Crystal Palace and had at Fulham and Blackburn before, so I was fortunate with that as well.
“And luckily we got some results and at all clubs, if you want to be held in any sort of regard by the hierarchy, you need to get some points on the board.”
West Brom vs Crystal Palace: Match facts
- West Brom have lost just one of their six Premier League home games against Crystal Palace (W2 D3), going down 0-2 in March 2017.
- In all competitions, Crystal Palace are unbeaten in four meetings with West Brom (W3 D1), keeping a clean sheet each time.
- West Bromwich Albion earned their first Premier League victory of the season last time out against Sheffield United – the Baggies last won back-to-back Premier League games in May 2018, while they last won consecutive home top-flight games in February 2017 (a run of four).
- West Bromwich Albion have the lowest expected goals total so far in the Premier League this season (5.9); indeed, 43% of their goals have come from outside the box, the highest ratio in the competition in 2020-21 (3/7).
- No side has scored fewer second half goals than West Brom in the Premier League this season (2), with a league-high 71% of the Baggies’ goals this term coming before half-time (5/7).
- Since keeping a clean sheet in their opening weekend victory against Southampton, Crystal Palace have conceded in each of their last nine Premier League matches. Only Sheffield United (13) are on a longer current run without a shutout.
- In their last Premier League campaign in 2017-18, West Brom failed to win any of their seven league matches played in December, drawing four and losing three. No team has ever played more games in a specific month of a single Premier League campaign without a win.
- West Brom’s first four Premier League games this season saw a total of 18 goals scored (F5 A13), at an average of 4.5 per game. Their last six league games have seen just seven goals scored (F2 A5), an average of 1.2 per game.
- Crystal Palace have the oldest average starting XI in the Premier League this season (29 years, 132 days). Indeed, Roy Hodgson has named the nine oldest starting lineups in the competition this term, with their last game against Newcastle the oldest so far (30y 182d).
- Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson has won 10 of his 24 Premier League matches against sides he’s previously taken charge of in the competition – only Harry Redknapp and Sam Allardyce (11 each) have won more such games.
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