Crystal Palace v West Ham: Premier League – live
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40 min: Palace launch another attack. Michael Olise tries to jink his way down the inside right but is dispossessed by Emerson, who clears the ball upfield.
40 min: Wilf Zaha shoots into the side-netting from a tight angle after playing a neat one-two with Jeffrey Schlupp in the West Ham penalty area.
38 min: Chasing a ball into the box from Olise, Eberchi Eze goes down under pressure from Nayef Aguerd. The Palace fans behind the goal appeal for a penalty but none is forthcoming. Correct decision.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 3-2 West Ham (Antonio 36)35 min: Michail Antonio wins a corner for West Ham. The ball’s sent into the penalty area, Soucek gets a flick across the face of goal and Antonio nods home from three yards out at the back post. This is tremendous fun!
33 min: Picking up the ball outside the West Ham penalty area, Schlupp tries his luck from distance. His effort fizzes a foot or two over the bar.
32 min: It would be fair to say David Moyes wasn’t best pleased with the concession of that goal and it’s small wonder. He slammed a water-bottle into the turf as Jeffrey Schlupp nutmegged Fabianski.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 3-1 West Ham (Schlupp 30)Palace extend their lead! West Ham try to play the ball out from the back. Schlupp catches Soucek napping about five yards outside his own penalty area, robs him of the ball and advances unopposed on the West Ham goal. As Fabianski came off his line to try to deny him, Schlupp prodded the ball between the goalkeeper’s legs and into the back of the net.
28 min: Palace corner. Eze takes it short to Olise, who picks out Zaha in line with the left edge of the West Ham penalty area. He stands the ball up for Schlupp, who sends a looping header on to the roof of the net.
26 min: Vladimir Coufal sends a weak cross towards the near post from the byline. There’s no pace on the delivery and Michail Antonio can only send a fairly feeble looping header over the bar.
24 min: Michael Olise is wreaking havoc down the right for Palace and Tomas Soucek gets booked for trying to put a stop to his gallop with a late tackle. From the free-kick, Palace win a corner. Olise takes it short to Eze, picks up the return pass and sends the ball into the West Ham penalty area. Ogbonna clears.
22 min: It wasn’t the cleanest of contacts from Zaha but they all count. He’d burst a gut to get to the far post, the ball trundled his way from the right and he sidefooted across the face of goal and inside the far post.
Palace lead! Back from a spell on the sidellines with a groin injury, Wilf Zaha fires his side into the lead, sidefooting home at the far post after getting on the end of a low cross from Olise.
19 min: West Ham substitution: Zouma is helped from the field by two medical staff and replaced by Angelo Ogbonna.
17 min: There’s a break in play as Zouma receives treatment for an injury. He seemed to hurt his ankle, getting caught on his ankle by Ayew’s studs as the Palace winger followed through on the shot that restored parity for Palace.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 1-1 West Ham (Ayew 15)Palace equalise! Jordan Ayew gets the “wrong” side of Kurt Zouma, runs on to a delightfully weighted through ball from Micahel Olise and fires a low diagonal effort past Lucasz Fabianski. It’s his fourth goal of the season.
14 min: Soucek and Lucas Paqueta combine down the right touchline but their good work is undone by Jeffrey Schlupp, who wins the ball and sends Palace forward again.
11 min: It’s early in the game but it’s fair to say that West Ham opener came against the run of play. Jarrod Bowen sent his corner towards the far post, where Olise got his head to it but succeeded only in heading it into the path of Soucek in a crowded penalty area. Quick to react, the Czech international smashed the ball past Sam Johnstone, who had no chance of stopping it.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 0-1 West Ham (Soucek 9)West Ham lead! Tomas Soucek buries the ball from close range after it is headed his way by Michael Olise from Jarrod Bowen’s corner. It’s a great, albeit unwitting assist from Olise, who one presumes didn’t really mean to head the ball across the face of his own goal.
8 min: Antonio picks out Jarrod Bowen with a lovely ball around the corner, but the midfielder’s cross is put out for a corner. The ball’s swung in to the mixer, where Marc Guehi heads it out for another corner.
7 min: The corner is taken short but nothing comes of it. Emerson clears for West Ham.
5 min: Michael Olise canters down the right wing, cuts inside and tries to cross from the byline. Emerson Palmieri does well to dive in and intercept. Corner for Palace.
4 min: Palace continue to dominate, refusing to allow West Ham to get anything resembling a foothold in the game. Schlupp is penalised for a foul on Jarrod Bowen and West Ham have a chance to get forward for the first time.
3 min: Wilf Zaha threads the ball down the inside left for Jeffrey Schlupp to chase into the penalty area. Under pressure from Tomas Soucek, he slips and the ball goes out for a goal kick.
2 min: Palace dominate possession in these very early stages, pinging the ball hither and yon as they search for an opening.
1 min: Crystal Palace get the ball rolling, their players wearing their customary home kit. West Ham’sd players wear white shirts, orange shorts and white socks. Game on!
Not long now: Most of the fans are safely in their seats, the last few stragglers are on their way in to the ground and the players are ready for action.
Captains Wilf Zaha and Declan Rice lead out their sides to a soundtrack of Glad All Over from the Selhurst Park faithful and line up either side of Craig Pawson and his team of match officials. It’s a beautiful, sunny spring day in Sarf Lahndan and kick-off is just a few couple of minutes away.
Kick-off delayed by 15 minutesWith hundreds, if not thousands of Palace fans still unintentionally locked outside the ground and the resident IT crowd busy at work trying to fix the card readers, kick-off has been delayed until 12.45pm (BST).
Not long now: Or is it? There are a lot of Palace fans stuck outside the ground, apparently unable to gain access to the ground because of some problem with the season ticket card readers. There’s no news of any delay to kick-off yet but we’ll keep you posted.
David Moyes: “I thought Roy was mad when he came back in but he has an incredible passion for the game,” said the West Ham manager ahead of today’s game. “I can understand why people want to work with him because he is such a talented coach. I hope we can win the game but I have to say Roy has done a fantastic job. We are in a position that we would rather not be and we have to keep picking up points. Our aim is to get as high up the table as we possibly can.”
Roy Hodgson: “We expect the same sort of tactical challenge you expect from most teams in the Premier League,” said the Crystal Palace manager during yesterday’s pre-match presser.
“They are a good team, they have good players, they are very well coached and managed and they have a lot of experience as well. They know just as well as we do what playing in the Premier League means.
“It’s not a question of a particular style. It’s trying to deal with the good organisation and quality they have, making sure we are a match for it, and that we in turn can ask them some questions with regard to the play that we put before them.”
Those teams: Wilf Zaha returns to Crystal Palace’s starting line-up for the first time in four games and is one of four changes to the side beaten by Wolves on Wednesday made by Roy Hodgson. Joel Ward, Jeffrey Schlupp and Cheick Doucoure also come in.
David Moyes makes two changes to the West Ham side that lost against Liverpool in midweek. Pablo Fornals makes only his second start since January, coming in for Said Benrahma. Emerson Palmieri starts at left-back, with Aaron Cresswell making way.
Crystal Palace: Johnstone, Ward, Andersen, Guehi, Mitchell, Doucoure, Schlupp, Olise, Eze, Zaha, Ayew.
Subs: Guaita, Milivojevic, Tomkins, Lokonga, Mateta, Hughes, Edouard, Richards.
West Ham: Fabianski, Coufal, Zouma, Aguerd, Emerson, Rice, Soucek, Paqueta, Fornals, Antonio, Bowen.
Subs: Areola, Cresswell, Lanzini, Downes, Cornet, Ings, Ogbonna, Benrahma, Kehrer.
Today’s match officialsReferee: Craig Pawson.
Assistants: Scott Ledger and Derek Eaton.
Fourth official: Andy Madley.
VAR: Jarred Gillett.
Wilfried Zaha is back and available for selection for Crystal Palace, having missed their past four game with a groin injury, while Nathanial Clyne may also feature. Joachim Andersen is rated at no better than fifty-fifty after being taken off at half-time during Palace’s defeat at the hands of Wolves last time out, a game in which the Dane scored an own goal.
West Ham have a fairly clean bill of health and are only missing Gianluca Scamaca, who is recovering from knee surgery he recently underwent in Rome. Despite the procedure taking just a few minutes, Scamamca’s new representatives have said their client will need up to three months to recuperate, apparently raising eyebrows behind the scenes at West Ham and prompting speculation that they are trying to engineer a move back to Serie for the striker, who has underwhelmed during his first season in the Premier League.
The opportunity to put further distance between themselves and the drop zone is up for grabs as Crystal Palace host West Ham at Selhurst Park in the first of this bank holiday weekend’s Premier League games. Just three short of the magic 40-point mark, Palace can pretty much guarantee themselves an 11th consecutive season in the top flight with victory, or even a point today.
Three points behind them in the table having played one game fewer than both their hosts and the five sides beneath them, West Ham will probably serttle for a point too. They’ve hauled themselves five points clear of the relegation trapdoor after taking seven of the past 12 points available but are still only a couple of bad results from being sucked right back into the relegation mix. They will be eager to add to their tally, with more daunting league fixtures against Manchester City and Manchester United to come.
Kick-off at Selhurst Park is at 12.30pm (BST) but stay tuned in the meantime for team news and build-up.
