Opta Stats: Crystal Palace v Arsenal

Dan Fitch
14 August 2015

Will Crystal Palace be celebrating after their game with Arsenal?

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The pressure is on Arsenal when they travel to Crystal Palace. Opta delivers the cold, hard analysis.

"Arsenal’s victories last season in this fixture both came by a 2-1 scoreline, with a goal in the 45th minute both times."

Another 2-1 win is 9.417/2.

Crystal Palace have been beaten in each of their last five Premier League encounters with the Gunners.  Arsenal are 1.774/5 to win.

Arsenal's victories last season in this fixture both came by a 2-1 scoreline, with a goal in the 45th minute both times. Another 2-1 win is 9.417/2.

Alan Pardew has won 11/19 Premier League matches in charge of Crystal Palace so far - no Eagles' manager has won more in a single spell at the club in the Premier League. Palace are 5.39/2 to taste victory.

 No player has more Premier League assists in 2015 than Santi Cazorla (8).  Over 2.5 goals is 1.8910/11.

Mesut Ozil has averaged 3.5 chances created per game in the Premier League in 2015; a higher ratio than any other player. Over 3.5 goals is 3.211/5.

Yannick Bolasie has hit the woodwork (5) on more occasions than he's scored (4) in the Premier League since the start of 2014-15.  Arsenal are 2.526/4 to keep a clean sheet.

Wilfried Zaha embarked on more dribbles than any other player on MD1 of the 2015-16 Premier League season (10). Zaha is 4.57/2 to score.

Bakary Sako beat his opponent with more dribbles than any other player in the Championship last season (116).  Sako is 5.04/1 to score his first Palace goal.

Arsenal have won 16/18 points in their last six Premier League away games (W5 D1).  They are 2.829/5 to win half-time/full-time.

The Gunners won 20 points from 10 Premier League London derbies last season (W6 D2 L2), while Palace won 11 points (W3 D2 L5). A draw is priced at 3.953/1.