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A load of stats about the game etc 
Crystal Palace are winless in their last eight Premier League meetings with Everton (D4 L4) since a 3-2 win at Goodison Park in September 2014.
Everton are unbeaten in their last seven away games against Crystal Palace in the Premier League (W4 D3), with their last defeat against them at Selhurst Park coming in October 1994.
Crystal Palace have alternated between victory and defeat in their last nine Premier League games, winning 3-2 at Arsenal last time out.
Only Huddersfield (8) have won fewer home points in the Premier League this season than Crystal Palace (16). Indeed, the Eagles have won 10 points more on the road (26) than they have at Selhurst Park this season (16), the biggest such difference in the competition.
Everton have won four of their last five Premier League games (L1), as many as they had in their previous 17 (W4 D3 L10). They’ve kept a clean sheet in each victory, losing their last eight games in a row in which they’ve conceded at least once.
Everton have won four points from their four Premier League games in London this season (W1 D1 L2). They last won more points in the capital in the 2014-15 campaign (W3 D0 L3).
Crystal Palace’s Christian Benteke netted his first Premier League goal of the season last time out against Arsenal – the Belgian last netted in back-to-back games in April 2017.
Everton’s Gylfi Sigurdsson has been involved in seven Premier League goals against Crystal Palace (3 goals, 4 assists), only against Manchester United (9) has he been involved in more in the competition.
Luka Milivojevic has scored 50% of Crystal Palace’s home Premier League goals this season (7/14). The Serbian is the only Palace player to score more than once at Selhurst Park this term.
Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha has scored nine Premier League goals this season – he’s never reached double figures in a single top-flight campaign before. However, eight of his nine goals this term have come away from home.
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... we've never played Crystal Palace before on 27th April
- but we are unbeaten in our last 4 outings on this date - W3 D1 L0
- the most recent was a 1-0 home victory over Fulham in 2013 with Steven Pienaar nabbing the winner
- our last away trip on 27th April was to Sheff Wed in 1996
- an Andrei Kanchelskis hat-trick contributed to a lovely 5-2 win!
- we''ve played 4 away games in total on 27th April and we've lost none of them - W2 D2 L0!
- we’ve also played 2 matches on neutral grounds in the past on 27th April
- both were FA Cup Semi-Finals - and we won one and lost one
- the win came back in 1968
- Johnny Morrissey’s penalty just before half-time against Leeds was the difference between the teams
- the defeat was at Manchester City’s old Maine Road ground in the 1977 FA Cup Semi-Final replay
- we lost 3-0 to Liverpool
- nuff said about that!
- we’re unbeaten in our last 8 meetings with Crystal Palace, home and away - W4 D4 L0
- most recently, we beat them 2-0 at Goodison last October in an eventful game
- Jordan Pickford saved Luka Milivojevic’s penalty after an hour
- and then subs Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Cenk Tosun won the game for us with goals in the 87th and 89th minutes!
- at Selhurst Park we are unbeaten in 7 visits - W4 D3 L0
- our last win there came in in January 2017
- Seamus Coleman scored the only goal of the game with just 3 minutes left to play
- overall in the Premier League we’ve only ever lost once at Palace - W5 D3 L1
- on a points-per-game basis that’s our best away Prem record against any team!
(all teams we’ve visited more than twice in the Prem, that is)
- if Leighton Baines plays at Palace it will be his 412th appearance for us in all competitions
- that's 1 more than former captain Tommy ‘TE’ Jones managed
- Leighton would be in 14th place alone on our all-time list
- if Phil Jagielka plays it would be his 322nd League game for the club
- that would be 1 more than Colin Harvey and the same as Graeme Sharp!
- Jags and Sharpy would be jointly in 18th position on our all-time League chart
- if Tom Davies starts it will be his 50th start for us in the Prem
- whilst if Dominic Calvert-Lewin starts it will be his 50th for the club in all competitions
- if we beat Palace it will be our 6th away League victory this season, our most since 8 in 2013-14
- a win or a draw would also take us above last season’s League points total of 49.
- we are currently on that same number this time around
- if we lose, however, it would be our 10th away defeat in the Prem
- that's the joint most (with 2017-18 and 2014-15) since 11 in 2003-04
- it would also be our 15th League defeat home and away this term
- the joint worst (with 2017-18 and 2014-15) since 16 in 2005-06
- a win against Palace would be just our 2nd League 'double' of the season (after Cardiff)
- and our first against the Eagles since 2004-05
- 3 goals at Selhurst Park would take our away League total this season to 25
- that would be our best total since the 25 we scored in 2009-10
- 4 goals (let’s think big!) would mean 26 - the highest since 29 in 1995-96!
- oh, and we haven’t conceded a first half goal now in 9 successive games in all competitions, home and away
- the last time we managed 10 was back in September 2012
- that was a sequence that had started at the end of the previous season
- the last time we managed it within one season was in a run of 11 back in December 1986-January 1987!
- Lee Mason will be refereeing the match
- we’ve lost our last 2 games with him in charge, most recently 3-2 at Newcastle last month
- but we were unbeaten in his previous 7 before that - so, W5 D2 L2 overall in his last 9 Everton games
- Mr Mason has awarded our opponents a penalty in each of his last 2 Everton appointments
- will he award Palace one this time?!
- if the Eagles score a penalty it will be the 200th successful spot-kick against us in all of our away League games ever!
- of the 300 taken so far by our opponents, 199 have been netted and 101 unsuccessful
- if Jordan Pickford saves one he will be the first Everton goalkeeper ever to save 4 penalties in one season
- his current 3 ties him with Tim Howard (2009/10), Neville Southall (1988/89) and Tommy Fern (1920/21)!
- a penalty save by either goalkeeper would also equal a record
- it would be only the 3rd time that there have been 6 penalty saves in Everton games in one season!
- the other times were last season and 1904/05
- the match is of course on a Saturday with a 3.00pm kick-off
- home and away, we’ve lost all of our last 6 of those in the League
- away from home it’s 5 League defeats on the run in Saturday 3.00pm games!
Crystal Palace are winless in their last eight Premier League meetings with Everton (D4 L4) since a 3-2 win at Goodison Park in September 2014.
Everton are unbeaten in their last seven away games against Crystal Palace in the Premier League (W4 D3), with their last defeat against them at Selhurst Park coming in October 1994.
Crystal Palace have alternated between victory and defeat in their last nine Premier League games, winning 3-2 at Arsenal last time out.
Only Huddersfield (8) have won fewer home points in the Premier League this season than Crystal Palace (16). Indeed, the Eagles have won 10 points more on the road (26) than they have at Selhurst Park this season (16), the biggest such difference in the competition.
Everton have won four of their last five Premier League games (L1), as many as they had in their previous 17 (W4 D3 L10). They’ve kept a clean sheet in each victory, losing their last eight games in a row in which they’ve conceded at least once.
Everton have won four points from their four Premier League games in London this season (W1 D1 L2). They last won more points in the capital in the 2014-15 campaign (W3 D0 L3).
Crystal Palace’s Christian Benteke netted his first Premier League goal of the season last time out against Arsenal – the Belgian last netted in back-to-back games in April 2017.
Everton’s Gylfi Sigurdsson has been involved in seven Premier League goals against Crystal Palace (3 goals, 4 assists), only against Manchester United (9) has he been involved in more in the competition.
Luka Milivojevic has scored 50% of Crystal Palace’s home Premier League goals this season (7/14). The Serbian is the only Palace player to score more than once at Selhurst Park this term.
Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha has scored nine Premier League goals this season – he’s never reached double figures in a single top-flight campaign before. However, eight of his nine goals this term have come away from home.
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... we've never played Crystal Palace before on 27th April
- but we are unbeaten in our last 4 outings on this date - W3 D1 L0
- the most recent was a 1-0 home victory over Fulham in 2013 with Steven Pienaar nabbing the winner
- our last away trip on 27th April was to Sheff Wed in 1996
- an Andrei Kanchelskis hat-trick contributed to a lovely 5-2 win!
- we''ve played 4 away games in total on 27th April and we've lost none of them - W2 D2 L0!
- we’ve also played 2 matches on neutral grounds in the past on 27th April
- both were FA Cup Semi-Finals - and we won one and lost one
- the win came back in 1968
- Johnny Morrissey’s penalty just before half-time against Leeds was the difference between the teams
- the defeat was at Manchester City’s old Maine Road ground in the 1977 FA Cup Semi-Final replay
- we lost 3-0 to Liverpool
- nuff said about that!
- we’re unbeaten in our last 8 meetings with Crystal Palace, home and away - W4 D4 L0
- most recently, we beat them 2-0 at Goodison last October in an eventful game
- Jordan Pickford saved Luka Milivojevic’s penalty after an hour
- and then subs Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Cenk Tosun won the game for us with goals in the 87th and 89th minutes!
- at Selhurst Park we are unbeaten in 7 visits - W4 D3 L0
- our last win there came in in January 2017
- Seamus Coleman scored the only goal of the game with just 3 minutes left to play
- overall in the Premier League we’ve only ever lost once at Palace - W5 D3 L1
- on a points-per-game basis that’s our best away Prem record against any team!
(all teams we’ve visited more than twice in the Prem, that is)
- if Leighton Baines plays at Palace it will be his 412th appearance for us in all competitions
- that's 1 more than former captain Tommy ‘TE’ Jones managed
- Leighton would be in 14th place alone on our all-time list
- if Phil Jagielka plays it would be his 322nd League game for the club
- that would be 1 more than Colin Harvey and the same as Graeme Sharp!
- Jags and Sharpy would be jointly in 18th position on our all-time League chart
- if Tom Davies starts it will be his 50th start for us in the Prem
- whilst if Dominic Calvert-Lewin starts it will be his 50th for the club in all competitions
- if we beat Palace it will be our 6th away League victory this season, our most since 8 in 2013-14
- a win or a draw would also take us above last season’s League points total of 49.
- we are currently on that same number this time around
- if we lose, however, it would be our 10th away defeat in the Prem
- that's the joint most (with 2017-18 and 2014-15) since 11 in 2003-04
- it would also be our 15th League defeat home and away this term
- the joint worst (with 2017-18 and 2014-15) since 16 in 2005-06
- a win against Palace would be just our 2nd League 'double' of the season (after Cardiff)
- and our first against the Eagles since 2004-05
- 3 goals at Selhurst Park would take our away League total this season to 25
- that would be our best total since the 25 we scored in 2009-10
- 4 goals (let’s think big!) would mean 26 - the highest since 29 in 1995-96!
- oh, and we haven’t conceded a first half goal now in 9 successive games in all competitions, home and away
- the last time we managed 10 was back in September 2012
- that was a sequence that had started at the end of the previous season
- the last time we managed it within one season was in a run of 11 back in December 1986-January 1987!
- Lee Mason will be refereeing the match
- we’ve lost our last 2 games with him in charge, most recently 3-2 at Newcastle last month
- but we were unbeaten in his previous 7 before that - so, W5 D2 L2 overall in his last 9 Everton games
- Mr Mason has awarded our opponents a penalty in each of his last 2 Everton appointments
- will he award Palace one this time?!
- if the Eagles score a penalty it will be the 200th successful spot-kick against us in all of our away League games ever!
- of the 300 taken so far by our opponents, 199 have been netted and 101 unsuccessful
- if Jordan Pickford saves one he will be the first Everton goalkeeper ever to save 4 penalties in one season
- his current 3 ties him with Tim Howard (2009/10), Neville Southall (1988/89) and Tommy Fern (1920/21)!
- a penalty save by either goalkeeper would also equal a record
- it would be only the 3rd time that there have been 6 penalty saves in Everton games in one season!
- the other times were last season and 1904/05
- the match is of course on a Saturday with a 3.00pm kick-off
- home and away, we’ve lost all of our last 6 of those in the League
- away from home it’s 5 League defeats on the run in Saturday 3.00pm games!
