Burnley vs Crystal Palace: Team news, kick-off time, probable line-ups, odds and stats from Premier League clash

  • Burnley host Crystal Palace at Turf Moor on Sunday in the Premier League
  • Jeff Hendrick is a major doubt for Burnley's home clash with Palace
  • Mamadou Sakho remains short of match fitness and will be missing for Palace 

Ahead of this weekend's Premier League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Burnley's home clash with Crystal Palace.

 

Burnley vs Crystal Palace (Turf Moor)

Team news


Burnley

Burnley midfielder Jeff Hendrick is a major doubt for the Clarets' Premier League clash with Crystal Palace at Turf Moor on Sunday.

Hendrick missed his side's 1-1 draw with Tottenham at Wembley a fortnight ago with a tight thigh and faces a late fitness test on the injury.

Jeff Hendrick is a major doubt for Burnley's home clash with Crystal Palace on Sunday 

Jeff Hendrick is a major doubt for Burnley's home clash with Crystal Palace on Sunday 

Jon Walters made a successful return from a knee injury with Ireland during the international break, and boss Sean Dyche has no further concerns.

Provisional squad: Heaton, Legzdins, Pope, Lowton, Long, Mee, Taylor, Ward, Darikwa, Tarkowski, Defour, Brady, Ulvestad, Hendrick, Walters, Cork, Westwood, Arfield, Gudmundsson, Vokes, Agyei, Barnes, Wood.

 

Crystal Palace 

Crystal Palace are without new signing Mamadou Sakho for Sunday's visit to Burnley because the defender remains short of match fitness.

They also remain without longer-term absentees Wilfried Zaha, owing to a knee injury, and Connor Wickham, who is continuing his comeback from an anterior cruciate ligament injury to his right knee.

James Tomkins came off with a hamstring problem in last month's defeat by Swansea but is expected to be passed fit, as are Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Sullay Kaikai.

Provisional squad: Hennessey, Speroni, Riedewald, Dann, Delaney, Fosu-Mensah, Tomkins, Kelly, Ward, Lee, McArthur, Cabaye, Loftus-Cheek, Milivojevic, Mutch, Puncheon, Sako, Schlupp, Souare, Kaikai, Townsend, Van Aanholt, Benteke.

 

Key match stats (supplied by Opta)

Burnley won both Premier League clashes against Palace last season, their first league double over them since the 2001-02 season.

Crystal Palace haven’t lost three consecutive league games against Burnley since February 1971 – a run of four in a row.

Burnley have won six of their eight top-flight games against the Eagles (D1 L1), their only defeat a 3-2 reverse at Turf Moor in January 2015, a game the Clarets led 2-0.

Crystal Palace are yet to score a Premier League goal this season as we head in to MD4. Palace have never failed to find the net in their opening four games to a league season in their history.

Frank de Boer is only the fifth manager in Premier League history to see their first three games in charge of a club end as a defeat without his side scoring – the other four were Gianluca Vialli at Chelsea, Kevin Ball at Sunderland, Steve McClaren at Middlesbrough and Stuart Gray at Southampton.

Burnley managed to do the double over Palace in the Premier League last season

Burnley managed to do the double over Palace in the Premier League last season

The record for the fewest number of Premier League matches that a permanent manager has been in charge of a club for in the competition is currently held by Les Reed at Charlton in 2006-07 (7 games).

Should Burnley’s new signing Chris Wood appear in this game, this would be his sixth league game against the Eagles – all with different clubs (West Brom, Birmingham, Bristol City, Millwall, Leicester and Burnley). He scored in his last league game against them, for Leicester in a 2-2 draw in April 2013.

Chris Wood has scored in over half of his league appearances since the start of 2016-17 (25/48 – 52%).

Ashley Barnes scored a goal in both Premier League games against Crystal Palace last season – the Eagles are one of two teams he’s netted more than one Premier League goal against along with Spurs (2).

Lee Chung-yong could make his 100th Premier League appearance in this match, becoming only the third South Korean player to reach this landmark in the competition after Park Ji-Sung and Ki Sung-yueng. 

BURNLEY VS CRYSTAL PALACE 

Kick-off: 1:30pm, Sun

Odds (subject to change):

Burnley 13/10

Draw 21/10

Crystal Palace 23/10

Managers:

Sean Dyche (Burnley)

Frank de Boer (Crystal Palace) 

Head-to-head PL record:

Burnley wins - 2

Draws - 1

Crystal Palace wins - 1

League form (latest result first):

Burnley - DLW

Crystal Palace - LLL 

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