Crystal Palace are unbeaten in their last six Premier League matches.
They’re also unbeaten at Selhurst Park this season.
Patrick Vieira has them playing.
Crystal Palace are unbeaten in their last six Premier League matches.
They’re also unbeaten at Selhurst Park this season.
Patrick Vieira has them playing.
The top four in the Premier League so far this season:
Chelsea (26 points, P11)
Manchester City (23 points, P11)
Liverpool (22 points, P10)
West Ham (20 points, P10)
Chelsea drop points in the race for the title.
Arsenal are on a good run of form, something nobody expected after their horrible start to the season. Their three defeats earlier placed them at the bottom of the league. Mikel Arteta has since orchestrated a remarkable turnaround to put together a seven-game unbeaten run in the Premier League, seeing them climb up to sixth.
Watford manager Claudio Ranieri will face a stern test at the Emirates, where the memories of the last gasp defeat during his title-winning campaign with Leicester will still be fresh. The Italian endured a terrible 5-0 loss to Liverpool in his first game in charge of the Hornets, then set the tone with an emphatic win against Everton.
When it seemed like Watford might have stumbled upon a system that works, they lost narrowly to Southampton last time out. That defeat placed them closer to the relegation zone, with only two points separating them, and 18th-placed Burnley.
Arteta is likely to name the same side who beat Leicester City last weekend, but Martin Odegaard is pushing to come in for Alexandre Lacazette.
Kieran Tierney, meanwhile, continues to recover from his ankle injury so is doubtful, while Granit Xhaka is injured.
For Watford, Emmanuel Dennis is back in contention as they look to record only their second win at Arsenal in the Premier League era.
Arsenal have won 11 of their 14 Premier League meetings with Watford (D1 L2), scoring at least once every single time they’ve faced the Hornets in the competition.
Watford have lost six of their seven away Premier League games against Arsenal, with the exception being a 2-1 victory in January 2017.
Since losing against both West Brom and Newcastle in 2010-11, Arsenal are unbeaten in their last 31 Premier League home games against promoted sides (W26 D5). The Gunners have only failed to score in one of those matches, a goalless draw with Middlesbrough in October 2016.
Watford beat Everton 5-2 in their last away Premier League match and are looking for consecutive away wins in the competition for the first time since September 2017 under Marco Silva. The Hornets’ last five away wins in the Premier League have come under different managers: Javier Gracia, Quique Flores, Nigel Pearson, Xisco and Claudio Ranieri.
Arsenal have scored the highest proportion of their Premier League goals in the first half of games this season (75% - 9/12), while Watford have conceded a league-high 10 goals before half-time so far this term.
West-ham United seem to have continued from where they left off in the 2020/21 season, as they have emerged as early contenders for a top-six finish if not top-four. The Hammers have also been in fine touch in Europe, where they are unbeaten in four group stage games in the UEFA Europa League, although they did drop points last time out in a 2-2 draw with KRC Genk.
On the other hand, Liverpool are one of the in-form teams in Europe at the moment. While the Reds have hardly ever been perched atop the Premier League table in the first ten gameweeks, they are the only team yet to face defeat in the top-flight. Jurgen Klopp & co. are also one of only two unbeaten English clubs in Europe this season, the other team being West Ham.
Moyes said his West Ham squad is being tested due to their packed schedule but insists that he has confidence in the depth available this season.
The Hammers are still fighting on three fronts, sitting fourth in the Premier League having also knocked both Manchester clubs out of the Carabao Cup and qualified from their group in the Europa League.
As it stands, Andriy Yarmolenko and Nikola Vlasic are doubts.
Since doing the league double over Liverpool in 2015-16, West Ham are winless in their last 10 Premier League games against the Reds (D2 L8).
Liverpool have won four of their last five away league games against West Ham (D1) and are looking to win three in a row at the Hammers for the first time since doing so between 2003 and 2007.
Only reigning Premier League champions Manchester City (80) and reigning European champions Chelsea (66) have earned more Premier League points in 2021 than West Ham (62). This is already the most points West Ham have won in a single calendar year in the competition.
Liverpool have scored 19 goals in their first five away Premier League games this season, with only two sides in the history of the top-flight ever scoring more at this stage - Manchester United in 1907-08 and Manchester City in 2011-12 (both 20).
Since a run of six defeats in seven Premier League games in February and March, Liverpool are unbeaten in their last 20 league games (W14 D6), scoring at least once in all 20 games (50 goals in total).
Liverpool have scored at least three goals in each of their last six away league games, netting 22 goals in total. In the entire history of the Football League, only one team has ever scored three or more times in seven consecutive away league games, with Birmingham City doing so between November 1892 and September 1893 in the second tier.