Bournemouth vs Crystal Palace Prediction 1 October 2018
On October 1 2018 at 20:00 at the Vitality Stadium in Dorset in the forhtocimung game of the seventh game week of the English Premier League the local Bournemouth will host their guests Crystal Palace. The game is supposed to be a very interesting one. Bournemouth are really strong at home while the Crystals improved their class a lot during the preseason campaign. At the same time, we can’t say that the teams are very strong when they play at home.
Bournemouth shouldn’t be underestimated as they are really solid in the new season. In their three matches played at the domestic stadium they outplayed Cardiff 4:2 and Leicester 2:0 and gained a point playing against Everton 2:2. Bournemouth also kicked-off Blackburn 3:2 and MK Dons 3:0 from the League Cup at the domestic stadium as well. In all of the games they team was very concentrated on attack and it scored at least two goals. In the previous season Bournemouth had really average statistics in their home matches as they won seven times, lost five times and drew five times. Yet, since the new manager was appointed, everything changed. The Cherries started to attack more and improved their defense. The creative players of the team got much more space and it gave the results. Now Bournemouth look like a team which is able to fight for the Euro Cups. Most of the important footballers are ready to play in the forthcoming game.
Crystal Palace started the season in their usual way. Mostly due to the minimum difference and class and luck they outplayed Fulham 2:0 and Huddersfield 1:0. In the rest of the games the Eagles didn’t manage to outplay Newcastle 0:0 and lost to Liverpool 2:0, Watford 2:1 and Southampton 2:0. The team still doesn’t look very solid and it players don’t cooperate well enough and they aren’t strong enough to change the situation in case something is going wrong in the match. Moreover, Crystal Palace have really a lot of injured players in their squad and among them there is their main forward Cristian Benteke. That’s why they may have a lot of problems playing against the solid Bournemouth away from home.
In the last five games played between the teams the Cherries scored 7 goals. They also have their own motivation as they are eager to rehabilitate from the away loss to Burnley with the devastating 0:4 score. The home game against Southampton will be the best chance for it. We are sure that Bournemouth will be able to make the fans happy with at least one goal.