Crystal Palace vs Wolverhampton Wanderers

Selhurst Park is the venue as perennial bottom-half Premier League strugglers Crystal Palace and Wolverhampton Wanderers face off against each other.

Crystal Palace fought back from a halftime deficit to hold cross-town rivals Brentford to a 1-1 draw last weekend, balancing out a mixed three-game start to the new Premier League season (W1, D1, L1). While their only defeat came at Selhurst Park, going down 1-0 to Arsenal, Roy Hodgson’s men ought to take the field in a confident mood after overcoming a 2-0 disadvantage at halftime to beat Plymouth Argyle 3-2 in midweek League Cup action. The ‘Eagles’ can draw more courage from an eye-catching three-game winning Premier League run against Wolverhampton on home turf. Two of those three victories came ‘to nil,’ which has been the case in just one of Palace’s three top-flight home wins since Hodgson’s return in late March.

On the other hand, Gary O’Neil’s managerial career at Wolverhampton couldn’t have started any worse, with the ‘Wanderers’ losing back-to-back matches at the beginning of the 2023/24 Premier League campaign by an aggregate score of 5-1. However, Sasa Kalajdzic’s 87th-minute winner at Everton last time out offered the ex-Bournemouth boss a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. O’Neil embraced it with open arms, masterminding a thumping 5-0 win over Blackpool in midweek League Cup action days later, suggesting a second consecutive away league victory for the first time since February 2022 could be on the cards. But playing on Sunday doesn’t bode well, with Wolves going winless in their last eight Sunday-held fixtures in the Premier League (D2, L6).