Leicester are unbeaten in their last four Premier League home games against Crystal Palace (W3 D1), with the most recent such meeting ending 0-0 in October 2022.
Having won four consecutive Premier League games against Leicester between 2017 and 2019, Crystal Palace have won just one of their last nine against the Foxes (D4 L4).
Leicester have lost each of their last five Premier League games – the longest ongoing losing run in this season’s competition – while conceding 2+ goals each time. Not since April 2001 have the Foxes lost 6+ successive league matches while shipping more than once in each defeat (run of 7).
Crystal Palace are unbeaten in their last five away league games (W2 D3). In their history, only in October 1990 and February 1992 have the Eagles ever gone six successive top-flight away games without losing.
Leicester have kept the fewest clean sheets of any side in the Premier League this season (1). The Foxes have recorded just two shutouts in their last 43 games in the competition – the joint-fewest over a run of 43 games by any side in the competition’s history, along with West Brom from December 2002 to January 2005, and Burnley from April 2022 to May 2024.
Only Everton (53%) have scored a higher percentage of their Premier League goals this season from set-plays (excl. penalties) than Crystal Palace (38%), with four of the Eagles’ last eight league goals coming via corners.
Crystal Palace (4,495) and Leicester City (4,151) are the top two sides in the Premier League this season for total pressures applied. However, just 22% of these (for both sides) have been in the final third, with only Nottingham Forest (19%) recording a lower such percentage.
Only Erling Haaland (16) has received more through balls from open play in the Premier League this season than Jamie Vardy (11); indeed, all other Leicester players combined have only received eight through balls in total.
Only Jørgen Strand Larsen (51) has made more hold-ups in the Premier League this season than Crystal Palace’s Jean-Philippe Mateta (44).
After his assist against Chelsea, Eberechi Eze moved level with Christian Benteke on 46 Premier League goal involvements for Crystal Palace (28 goals, 18 assists), with only Wilfried Zaha (96) being involved in more for the Eagles.
