Crystal Palace vs Huddersfield: Team news, kick-off time, probable line-ups, provisional betting odds and stats for the Premier League clash

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Ahead of the opening weekend of 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 Crystal Palace's home clash with Huddersfield.

Crystal Palace vs Huddersfield (Selhurst Park) 

Christian Benteke and Crystal Palace face newly-promoted Huddersfield on Saturday

Crystal Palace

Team news 

Crystal Palace are expected to hand debuts to summer recruits Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Jairo Riedewald on Saturday when they host Huddersfield in the Premier League.

Timothy Fosu-Mensah is also in contention for his first appearance, but Yohan Cabaye and James McArthur remain short of match fitness, and Bakary Sako has been ruled out with a knock.

Goalkeepers Wayne Hennessey and Julian Speroni are competing to be new manager Frank de Boer's first choice.

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

Jairo Riedewald could make his Premier League debut against newly-promoted Huddersfield

Huddersfield 

Team news 

Huddersfield will start their first top-flight campaign in 45 years without four injured players at Crystal Palace, though newly-appointed captain Tommy Smith is expected to be fine.

Both Martin Cranie (hip) and Jon Gorenc Stankovic (knee) are long-term absentees but Jonathan Hogg and Nahki Wells (both ankle) have a chance of featuring this month before the international break.

Smith fractured his foot in the Championship play-off final win over Reading in May and has missed the bulk of pre-season but, after Mark Hudson's retirement was confirmed this week, his successor as skipper has declared himself fit to lead the team out at Selhurst Park.

Provisional squad: Lossl, Coleman, Schofield, Smith, Malone, Lowe, Jorgensen, Schindler, Hefele, Whitehead, Scannell, Billing, Mooy, Van la Parra, Lolley, Williams, Ince, Palmer, Kachunga, Depoitre, Quaner, Mounie.

Key match stats (provided by Opta)

Huddersfield’s last top-flight match was in April 1972 and also away at Crystal Palace, when these two sides played out a 0-0 draw at Selhurst Park.

Palace have won just one of their last 12 competitive games against Huddersfield Town (W1 D7 L4).

Crystal Palace have won only one of their last five opening day matches in the Premier League, losing three of the last four (W1 D1 L3).

Frank de Boer will be the seventh different manager in nine seasons in the dugout for Crystal Palace on opening day in the Premier League (Steve Coppell, Alan Smith, Iain Dowie, Ian Holloway, Keith Millen and Alan Pardew).

The Terriers’ last top-flight win was in November 1971 over Brian Clough’s Derby, enduring a 22-game winless run after that.

No Huddersfield player has scored for the Terriers in their last 569 minutes of football, since Isaiah Brown scored against Wolves in April. Their only goal in their last five games was an own-goal scored by Sheffield Wednesday’s Tom Lees in the Championship play-offs.

Huddersfield signed Aaron Mooy on a permanent deal from Manchester City this summer

Both Frank de Boer and David Wagner will be taking charge of their first Premier League games in this match, only the second time in the last 13 seasons that two managers face one another in their maiden games, with the other occurrence coming on last season’s opening day between Claude Puel and Walter Mazzarri.

Huddersfield full-back Tommy Smith registered 10 assists in the Championship last season, five more than any other defender; six of those assists were provided for striker Elias Kachunga.

Palace winger Wilfried Zaha attempted 284 dribbles in the Premier League last season, 86 more than any other player.

Since 2008-09, only four newly promoted sides have won on the opening day in the Premier League – but all, like Huddersfield, had won promotion via the play-offs; Hull in 2008 and 2016, Blackpool in 2010 and West Ham in 2012.