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WEST BROMWICH ALBION v CRYSTAL PALACE
Barclays Premier League
Saturday 25th October 2014,
3:00pm
The Hawthorns
MATCH
NOTES
The game will be the 50th league and cup meeting between
Albion and Crystal Palace. The Baggies currently lead the way in terms of
victories with
21 compared to the Eagles' 15.
Albion's last game on this date came in 2008 when
they suffered a 3-0 defeat at home to Hull City in a Premier League clash at The
Hawthorns. The Baggies' last win on October 25 came in 2005 when goals from Rob
Earnshaw, Kanu and Junichi Inamoto gave the club a 3-2 win at Fulham in the
Carling Cup.
Crystal Palace's last game to take place on this
date came in 2011, the Eagles beating Southampton 2-0 at Selhurst Park in a
Carling Cup tie.
Albion have won just two of the last eleven league and
cup meetings
of the two clubs.
The Baggies go into the game looking for their 50th home Premier League win.
Albion's last six games: Manchester United (H)
2-2; Liverpool (A) 1-2; Burnley (H) 4-0; Hull City (H, LC) 3-2; Tottenham
Hotspur (A) 1-0; Everton (H) 0-2.
Crystal Palace's last six games:
Chelsea (H) 1-2; Hull City (A) 0-2; Leicester City (H) 2-0; Newcastle United (H,
LC) 2-3; Everton (A) 3-2; Burnley (H) 0-0.
TEAM
NEWS
Albion
England goalkeeper Ben Foster returns for the Baggies after missing Monday
night's game with Manchester United due to a calf injury.
Swedish defender Jonas Olsson is ruled out with an achilles problem whilst
on-loan winger Silvestre Varela remains sidelined following groin surgery.
Midfielder Claudio Yacob is unavailable with the Argentine currently back in his
homeland for personal reasons.
Crystal Palace
Palace boss Neil Warnock will be
without midfielder James McArthur who suffered an hip injury in last weekend's
game against Chelsea. Defender Damien Delaney will also sit the game out
following his red card against the Blues.
Scott Dann has returned to light
training following his knee injury but is unlikely to figure.
QUOTES
Baggies' boss Alan Irvine:
"When you look at Palace they
are extremely well organised.
"Neil Warnock has taken over a
side that were very well-drilled. They have great structure, discipline when out
of possession and they counter-attack well. It's different game to Manchester
United but very tough too.
"Obviously we are hoping to get
a victory but it's not a foregone conclusion because they are a very tough team
to play against. We will have to play very well to beat them."
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MATCH
ODDS
Result
Albion Win: 17/20, Crystal Palace Win: 16/5,
Draw: 23/10.
First GoalscorerAlbion:
Berahino 9/2, Brown 5/1, Anichebe 11/2, Samaras 6/1, Sessegnon 13/2, Blanco 7/1,
Dorrans 9/1, Gardner 9/1, Morrison 10/1, Brunt 10/1, Mulumbu 14/1, McAuley 20/1,
Dawson 20/1, Lescott 25/1, Baird 33/1.
Crystal Palace: Gayle 7/1, Campbell 7/1, Doyle 8/1, Chamakh 8/1, Puncheon 9/1,
Johnson 9/1, Zaha 11/1, Bolasie 11/1, Ledley 14/1, Jedinak 14/1, Guedioura 20/1,
Bannan 20/1, McArthur 25/1, O'Keefe 25/1, Ward 33/1, Hangeland 33/1, Kelly 33/1,
Dann 33/1.
No Goalscorers: 15/2
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REFEREE
Mark Clattenburg (County Durham)
Clattenburg refereed three Albion games last season - the 1-0 win at Norwich
City in April, the 4-3 defeat at Aston Villa in January and the 2-0 defeat
against Norwich at The Hawthorns in December.
The County Durham official has taken charge of one Palace game so far this
season - the 3-1 defeat at home to West Ham in August.
Clattenburg refereed three Palace games last season - the 3-3 draw at home to
Liverpool in May, the 2-1 defeat to Chelsea in December and the 1-0 defeat at
home to Spurs in August.
The official has issued 43 yellow and two red cards in the 10 games he has taken
charge of so far this season.
A full run-down of Clattenburg's history refereeing the
Baggies can be found
here
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for the game are
currently on general sale to home supporters.
Seats are priced £25 adults, £20
seniors, £15 under-21s/students and £10 under-17s.
Palace have sold their entire allocation of 2,700 tickets.
WEATHER FORECAST
Sunny intervals, 13°C.
FIXTURE HISTORY
The first ever meeting of Albion and Crystal Palace
came in a friendly game which took place at
Selhurst
Park in January 1930. Two goals from Joe Carter saw
the Baggies run out 2-1 winners.
The first competitive meeting of the two clubs took place in
September 1969 during Palace’s first ever season in the top-flight,
Albion running out 3-1 winners at Selhurst Park. Danny Hegan, Bobby Hope and
Jeff Astle scored for the Baggies whilst Cliff Jackson hit the hosts’ solitary
reply. The return game at The Hawthorns in January saw Albion complete the
double over Palace with a 3-2 victory, Jeff Astle hitting a hat-trick for Alan
Ashman’s team.
Albion’s biggest win over
Crystal Palace came during the 1988 season, the Baggies winning a thrilling game
5-3 at The Hawthorns. Robert Hopkins, John Paskin and a Don Goodman hat-trick
helping to overcome a Palace side that featured future Arsenal legend Ian Wright
who missed a penalty in the game.
The Londoners’ best win over Albion came in February
1973 at The Hawthorns when two goals each from Alan Whittle and Derek Possee
gave the visitors a 4-0 victory.
Probably the most important meeting of the two clubs came in
the final game of the 2001/02 season when Albion needed three points to
clinch a place in the Premier League for the first time. Goals from Darren Moore
and Bob Taylor in front of a full-house at The Hawthorns gave the Baggies a 2-0
win and a place in English football’s elite.
Albion’s recent record against
Palace is poor having won just two of the last eleven league and cup meetings.
MATCH HIGHLIGHTS
Tuesday 01 February 2005 - Albion 2-2 Crystal Palace - Premier League - The
Hawthorns
Saturday 27 March 2004 - Albion 2-0 Crystal Palace - League Division One - The
Hawthorns
Saturday 20 September 2003 - Crystal Palace 2-2 Albion - League Division One - Selhurst Park
Sunday 21 April 2002 - Albion 2-0 Crystal Palace - League Division One - The
Hawthorns
Tuesday 26 October 1999 - Crystal Palace 0-2 Albion - League Division One - Selhurst Park
Saturday 26 November 1988 - Albion 5-3 Crystal Palace - Second Division - The
Hawthorns
Saturday 4 October 1980 - Crystal Palace 0-1 Albion - First Division - Selhurst Park
LAST LEAGUE MEETING AT THE HAWTHORNS
 Albion
2-0 Crystal Palace
Barclays Premier League
Saturday 2nd November 2013, 3:00pm
Albion: Myhill; Jones (Berahino
30), McAuley, Olsson, Ridgewell; Mulumbu, Morrison (Yacob 73); Amalfitano,
Sessegnon (Vydra 85), Brunt (c); Long. Subs not used: Daniels (gk);
Rosenberg, Lugano, Popov.
Goalscorers:
Berahino 44,
McAuley 83.
Crystal Palace: Speroni;
Ward, Gabbidon, Delaney, Moxey; Jedinak (c), Dikgacoi (Gayle 79); Bannan (Bolasie
65), Guedioura (Puncheon 22), Thomas; Chamakh. Subs not used: Price (gk),
Mariappa, O'Keefe, Phillips.
Booked: Thomas 71 (foul).
Referee: Neil Swarbrick
(Lancashire).
Attendance: 26,397.
West Brom condemned Crystal
Palace to a seventh successive league defeat as they withstood the visitors'
second-half revival at the Hawthorns. Saido Berahino calmly fired the hosts
ahead just before the break after taming Stephane Sessegnon's low cross.
Palace's Mile Jedinak headed wide when well placed before Marouane Chamakh's
miscontrolled shot almost trickled in. Gareth McAuley headed in to snuff out the
visitors' hopes, before Boaz Myhill denied Yannick Bolasie late on. The defeat
underlined the task facing caretaker boss Keith Millen's successor in the
Crystal Palace dug-out. The Eagles, bottom of the table, have lost all but one
of their 10 Premier League games this season and are six points from safety.
The visitors started brightly
enough, with Chamakh's flick-on falling for Adlene Guedioura to strike a
forceful effort straight at Baggies keeper Myhill. But that partnership did not
have the chance to flourish any further, with Guedioura carried off after an
initially innocuous-looking clash with Myhill shortly after. West Brom made an
early change of their own, introducing Berahino in place of the injured Billy
Jones on the half-hour, but they struggled to make an impression on their
industrious, but limited opponents for much of the first half. Instead,
Guedioura's replacement Jason Puncheon dragged their best chance wide before
Berahino registered his sixth goal of the season. The England Under-21
international collected Sessegnon's square ball just inside the Palace box
before sweeping the ball round defender Dean Moxey and into the bottom corner.
West Brom had been unbeaten in
five league games before last week's defeat by Liverpool - a run that included a
victory at Manchester United and a draw at home to Arsenal - and their
confidence returned with the lead. Only a crucial touch from Eagles defender
Joel Ward diverted Morgan Amalfitano's cross away from a lurking Shane Long
before Sessegnon failed to make a clean connection as the defence parted
invitingly in front of him. The Baggies almost paid for that wastefulness as
Jedinak contrived to head wide when unchallenged eight yards from goal, before
Chamakh sent the ball past an advancing Myhill when trying to control it, but
the inadvertent effort at goal was off target. But McAuley barrelled in at the
back post to settle the home fans' increasing nerves with a fine header. Palace
finished strongly with Bolassie, Damien Delaney and Jerome Thomas all going
close but it was too little, too late as their chastening campaign continues.
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CURRENT CONNECTIONS
Jerome Thomas joined Albion on a free transfer in August 2009 after being
released by Portsmouth. He spent four fairly successful seasons at The Hawthorns
before his contract expired in the summer of 2013. After not being offered a new
deal by Albion, the winger joined Palace on a two year contract.
PAST
CONNECTIONS
Amongst the
players to have turned out at various levels for both clubs are: Ronnie
Allen, Jack Bannister, Paul Barron, Craig Beattie, Trevor Benjamin, Billy Birch, Jeroen Boere, Ally Brown,
David Burnside, Peter Burridge, Bill Davies, Danny Gabbidon, George Garratt, George
Handley, Adam Haywood, Charlie Hewitt, Roy Horobin, George Irwin, George
Johnson, Derek Kevan, Jack Lewis, Paul McShane, Tommy Magee, Tony Millington, Pat Mulcahy, Paddy Mulligan, Shaun Murphy, Arthur Parry, Darren Patterson,
Kevin Phillips, Ray
Potter, Dick Roberts, Alex Ross, Scott Sinclair, Keith Smith, Arthur Swift, John Thomas,
Garry Thompson, Jeff Turton, Ben Watson, Brian Whitehouse, Chris Whyte, Brian Wood and
George Wood.
Baggies' legend Tommy Magee was a player-coach at Palace for a
short spell during the mid-1930s; Dick Graham was trainer at Albion
and later manager at Palace; Former Albion scout Arthur Rowe also
managed Palace; Albion reserve goalkeeper George Irwin played for,
coached, acted as trainer and managed Palace; Former Republic of Ireland
goalkeeper Mike Kelly coached at both clubs.
ALL-TIME LEAGUE & CUP RECORD VS CRYSTAL PALACE
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VENUE |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
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Home |
25 |
13 |
5 |
7 |
37 |
31 |
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Away |
24 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
28 |
29 |
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Total |
49 |
21 |
13 |
15 |
65 |
60 |
LAST
TEN MATCHES AGAINST CRYSTAL PALACE
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DATE |
COMPETITION |
H/A |
F-A |
GOALSCORERS |
GATE |
|
Sat 08 Feb 2014 |
Premier League |
A |
1-3 |
Thievy - Ince, Ledley, Chamakh (pen) |
24,501 |
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Sat 04 Jan 2014 |
FA Cup |
H |
0-2 |
Gayle, Chamakh |
12,700 |
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Sat 02 Nov 2013 |
Premier League |
H |
2-0 |
Berahino, McAuley |
26,397 |
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Mon 26 Apr 2010 |
Championship |
A |
1-1 |
Tamas - Reid (og) |
17,798 |
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Sat 26 Sep 2009 |
Championship |
H |
0-1 |
N'Diaye |
21,007 |
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Wed 12 Mar 2008 |
Championship |
H |
1-1 |
Phillips - Moses |
20,378 |
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Sat 01 Dec 2007 |
Championship |
A |
1-1 |
Hudson (og) - Morrison |
15,247 |
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Wed 14 Mar 2007 |
Championship |
H |
2-3 |
Clement, Phillips - Morrison, Watson (pen), Grabban |
17,960 |
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Tue 17 Oct 2006 |
Championship |
A |
2-0 |
Gera, Kamara |
16,105 |
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Tue 01 Feb 2005 |
Premier League |
H |
2-2 |
Campbell, Earnshaw - Johnson, Rihilati |
25,092 |
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