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Lerma heads into own net for Bournemouth opener
Bournemouth know win against Palace would move them 6th
Palace still have hopes of European football
Bournemouth 1-0 Crystal Palace
Danny Gabbidon
Former Wales defender on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
Minimum should hit the target here. Whipped into a dangerous area with a Rayan header. He should be scoring from there.
Bournemouth 1-0 Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace defender Chadi Riad steams in to make an interception and manages to concede a corner from the half-way line.
Bournemouth 1-0 Crystal Palace
Bournemouth full-back Alex Gimenez whips in an inviting cross from the right, but Rayan can't keep his header down.
Good chance that.
Bournemouth 1-0 Crystal Palace
Oliver Glasner is all hand gestures and exasperated looks on the touchline. He is less than pleased with the way his side have started this one.
Bournemouth 1-0 Crystal Palace
Danny Gabbidon
Former Wales defender on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
It will go down as an own goal. Really poor. Evanilson gets to the ball first, tries to glance towards the post but it comes off the wrong side of Lerma. Henderson tries to save it. Crystal Palace will be disappointed to concede like that.
Bournemouth 1-0 Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace Maxence Lacroix is robbed of the ball and Junior Kroupi has a go from the edge of the box, but it's straight at Dean Henderson.
Seconds later Bournemouth come again, but Evanilson fires over the bar with just Henderson to beat.
Mentally, it looks like Palace are still in Krakow.
Jefferson Lerma own goal
Bournemouth's early pressure pays off, but it's a scruffy goal!
Evanilson finds space at a corner to direct a header towards the far post, but it looks to be going wide.
Crystal Palace midfielder Jefferson Lerma looks to head clear, but he gets it all wrong and actually diverts the ball towards goal.
Dean Henderson claws the ball away, but the referee indicates that the ball had crossed the line.
Image source, Getty ImagesBournemouth 0-0 Crystal Palace
Bournemouth are building up the pressure.
Rayan tries his luck from the edge of the penalty area but a deflection takes his shot over the bar.
Bournemouth 0-0 Crystal Palace
Danny Gabbidon
Former Wales defender on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
Bournemouth have 16 draws this season. If they could have turned a few more of those draws into wins they could have qualified for Europe already.
Bournemouth 0-0 Crystal Palace
From the free-kick Alex Scott rolls the ball towards the near post, but the routine comes to nothing and Crystal Palace hack clear.
Image source, Getty ImagesBournemouth 0-0 Crystal Palace
Marcus Tavernier finds the clever run of Evanilson with a curving pass down the outside of the Crystal Palace defence.
Jaydee Canvot brings Evanilson down and picks up the game's first booking.
Bournemouth 0-0 Crystal Palace
The travelling Crystal Palace fans are making plenty of noise at the Vitality Stadium.
Next week they could book their place in the Uefa Conference League final, so are understandably in good spirits.
Image source, Getty ImagesBournemouth 0-0 Crystal Palace
Bournemouth start on the front foot, but a Marcus Tavernier cross loops over everyone in the penalty area and goes out for a throw-in.
Bournemouth 0-0 Crystal Palace
Bournemouth get things going at Vitality Stadium.
Bournemouth v Crystal Palace (14:00 BST)
The only English player in Crystal Palace's starting XI today is goalkeeper Dean Henderson - it's the first time the Eagles have ever named a Premier League starting XI without a single English outfielder.
Bournemouth v Crystal Palace (14:00 BST)
Bournemouth are unbeaten in their last five Premier League games against Crystal Palace (W2 D3), having lost five in a row against the Eagles before this.
Bournemouth v Crystal Palace (14:00 BST)
Adam Wharton will be key to Crystal Palace's hopes of ending Bournemouth's unbeaten run.
18.7% of Wharton’s passes in the Premier League this season have been line-breaking passes (202/1,082).
That's the highest proportion of any player in 2025-26 with 500+ passes attempted.
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BBC Radio 5 Live
You can listen to radio commentary of two of today's Premier League games.
Bournemouth v Crystal Palace (14:00 BST)
Andoni Iraola will leave Bournemouth at the end of the season, but before that he is looking to guide the Cherries into Europe for the first time in their 127-year history.
"The opportunity is there. I think we are in a very good place but we still need a lot of points," Iraola said during his media conference on Friday.
"The situation is very tight. If we want to get Europe, we have to win games. We have four chances like the others starting from Sunday against Palace.
"We don't have an easy game so we will have to earn everything but I think we have shown that we want to take this opportunity and we arrive to this decisive moment in a good place."
Bournemouth v Crystal Palace (14:00 BST)
Junior Kroupi is Bournemouth's top scorer in the Premier League this season with 11 goals. Three of them have come in his past four games.
Crystal Palace will have a job on their hands to keep him quiet today.
Image source, Getty Images| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
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| 35 | 23 | 7 | 5 | 67 | 26 | 41 | 76 |
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| 33 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 66 | 29 | 37 | 70 |
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| 34 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 60 | 46 | 14 | 61 |
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| 34 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 57 | 44 | 13 | 58 |
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| 34 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 47 | 42 | 5 | 58 |
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| 35 | 12 | 16 | 7 | 53 | 52 | 1 | 52 |
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| 35 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 52 | 46 | 6 | 51 |
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| 35 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 49 | 42 | 7 | 50 |
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| 34 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 53 | 45 | 8 | 48 |
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| 35 | 14 | 6 | 15 | 44 | 49 | -5 | 48 |
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| 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 41 | 41 | 0 | 47 |
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| 35 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 37 | 46 | -9 | 47 |
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| 35 | 13 | 6 | 16 | 49 | 51 | -2 | 45 |
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| 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 36 | 40 | -4 | 43 |
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| 35 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 47 | 52 | -5 | 43 |
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| 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 41 | 45 | -4 | 39 |
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| 35 | 9 | 9 | 17 | 42 | 61 | -19 | 36 |
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| 34 | 8 | 10 | 16 | 43 | 53 | -10 | 34 |
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| 35 | 4 | 8 | 23 | 35 | 71 | -36 | 20 |
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| 35 | 3 | 9 | 23 | 25 | 63 | -38 | 18 |
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Manager:Andoni Iraola
Formation:4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager:Oliver Glasner
Formation:3 - 4 - 3
Manager:Andoni Iraola
Formation:4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager:Oliver Glasner
Formation:3 - 4 - 3
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Dominant period
Match momentum measures the swing of the match by comparing each team’s threat to see who is more likely to score within that minute. The momentum value is the difference between each team’s most dangerous moment, or team threat, in that minute.
Match momentum measures the swing of the match by comparing each team’s threat to see who is more likely to score within that minute. The momentum value is the difference between each team’s most dangerous moment, or team threat, in that minute.
| Minute | Team with most threat |
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Kick off 1' | AFC Bournemouth |
2' | AFC Bournemouth |
3' | AFC Bournemouth |
4' | AFC Bournemouth |
5' | Crystal Palace |
6' | Crystal Palace |
7' | AFC Bournemouth |
8' | AFC Bournemouth |
9' | AFC Bournemouth |
10' | AFC BournemouthOwn Goal |
11' | AFC Bournemouth |
12' | AFC Bournemouth |
13' | AFC Bournemouth |
14' | AFC Bournemouth |
15' | AFC Bournemouth |
16' | AFC Bournemouth |
17' | AFC Bournemouth |
18' | AFC Bournemouth |
19' | AFC Bournemouth |
20' | AFC Bournemouth |
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Bournemouth are unbeaten in their last five Premier League games against Crystal Palace (W2 D3), having lost five in a row against the Eagles before this.
Crystal Palace have kept a clean sheet in five of their eight Premier League away games against Bournemouth – at no other side have they recorded more shutouts in the competition (also 5 at Leicester).
Bournemouth are unbeaten in their last 14 Premier League games, the longest ongoing run in the division. Only two teams have had 14+ game unbeaten runs within a single campaign and finished outside the top six – Wimbledon in 1996-97 (14 games, 8th) and Chelsea in 2015-16 (15 games, 10th).
Crystal Palace have lost seven of their last 13 Premier League away games (W5 D1), as many defeats on the road as in their first 28 matches under Oliver Glasner (W11 D10).
Crystal Palace (2.03 m/s) and Bournemouth (1.88 m/s) have two of the highest three direct speeds in the Premier League this season, while both have two of the lowest five averages of open play sequence times (8.16 seconds and 8.26 seconds respectively).
No side has a worst points differential between points won and lost with goals scored in the 90th minute or later in the Premier League this season than Bournemouth (-3, 5 won and 8 lost); Crystal Palace have the joint-best differential (+6, 7 won and 1 lost).
Bournemouth have given more minutes to teenagers than any other side in the Premier League this season (2,602). Junior Kroupi is responsible for more than half of those for the Cherries, with his 1,385 minutes the third-most among teens this term along with Mateus Mané (1,453) and Lewis Miley (1,403).
Marcos Senesi leads all Premier League players this season for line-breaking passes into the final third (161), while 30 of his line-breaking passes have lead to shots, the joint-fifth most of any player and the most of any defender.
Only Josko Gvardiol (11) has more Premier League goals among defenders in the Premier League than Daniel Muñoz since his debut in the competition in February 2024 (8), while he leads all defenders with 19 goal involvements (11 assists also).
18.7% of Adam Wharton’s passes in the Premier League this season have been line-breaking passes (202/1,082), the highest proportion of any player in 2025-26 with 500+ passes attempted, with his 133 under high-intensity also the joint-sixth most this term.
