Crystal Palace vs Liverpool Prediction

Recent Form

Liverpool's broader sample covers friendlies and cup games alongside league matches, but the Premier League thread is encouraging: wins over Bournemouth and Ipswich plus draws with Newcastle, Forest and Fulham mean they're unbeaten across the league games in this stretch. Across all 20 matches in the sample they've won nine, drawn six and lost five, scoring 34 and conceding 28.

Crystal Palace: 20 completed matches; Liverpool: 20 completed matches.

Crystal Palace

20 matches

Win

40% 8 / 20

Draw

15% 3 / 20

Loss

45% 9 / 20

Scored

32

Conceded

33

Difference

-1

Liverpool

20 matches

Win

45% 9 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

25% 5 / 20

Scored

38

Conceded

32

Difference

+6

Palace's equivalent sample is shakier. The Premier League results included show losses at home to Ipswich and Manchester City, a loss away at Fulham, and only a win at Everton and a draw at Leeds to show for it. Over the full 20-match sample they've won seven, drawn four and lost nine, with 29 scored against 34 conceded.

Liverpool's broader form looks tidier, though both samples mix in friendlies and cup fixtures that don't tell us everything about current league sharpness.

Comparative Team Statistics: Crystal Palace vs Liverpool

Head-to-Head

Liverpool's long-term record against Palace is lopsided, including some heavy wins like a 7-0 and a 4-0 over the years. But the two most recent competitive meetings actually went Palace's way: a 3-0 League Cup win at Anfield and a 2-1 league win at Selhurst Park last season.

Liverpool did respond with a 3-1 home win in April 2026, so the picture across the last few meetings is more mixed than the overall history suggests.

Recent meetings suggest Palace aren't as out of their depth against Liverpool as the long-term scoreline history implies.

League Standings

Five games into the season, Liverpool sit sixth with nine points from two wins and three draws, scoring seven and conceding four. Palace are down in fifteenth with four points from one win, one draw and three losses, already conceding eleven goals.

The early table gap lines up with the defensive numbers each side has shown so far this season.

Players to Watch

Alexander Isak has four goals in five matches for Liverpool, with Cody Gakpo chipping in three assists alongside him, so Liverpool's main attacking threats look sharp early on. For Palace, Daichi Kamada has also provided three assists in five games, showing they can still create chances even while results have gone against them.

Crystal Palace:

Best assist providers:

D. Kamada - 3

Penalty cards:

A. Disasi x 1

Liverpool:

Best scorers:

A. Isak - 4

Best assist providers:

C. Gakpo - 3

Penalty cards:

M. Kerkez x 2

Milos Kerkez has two yellow cards for Liverpool in five games, nothing alarming there. Palace's Axel Disasi has already been sent off once in just three matches, a reminder of the discipline issues that have fed into their leaky defensive record.

How It Might Play Out

Put the pieces together and this looks like a game where Liverpool will try to exploit space behind a defence that's conceded freely all season. Isak's goal return and Gakpo's creativity give Liverpool a sharp edge in the final third.

Palace have shown they can trouble Liverpool when it matters, as their recent head-to-head record proves, but their own defensive numbers suggest they'll need to be at their best to avoid another high-scoring afternoon.