Huddersfield Town vs Crystal Palace: Team news, time, odds and stats

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Ahead of this weekend's Premier League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Huddersfield Town's home clash with Crystal Palace at the John Smith's Stadium.

Huddersfield team news

Huddersfield trio Collin Quaner, Juninho Bacuna and Adama Diakhaby will all be assessed before Saturday's home game against Crystal Palace.

Forward Quaner and midfielder Bacuna sustained knocks playing for the Under 23s in midweek, while winger Diakhaby is also hoping to overcome a minor problem.

Midfielder Jonathan Hogg is still suspended, but goalkeeper Ben Hamer is expected back in contention after a knee injury and will vie with Jonas Lossl for a starting place.

Provisional team: Lossl, Hamer, Kongolo, Schindler, Jorgensen, Lowe, Billing, Mooy, Hadergjonaj, Van La Parra, Mounie, Depoitre, Diakhaby, Kachunga, Durm, Williams, Mbenza, Pritchard, Quaner.

Crystal Palace team news

Crystal Palace will be without Belgian striker Christian Benteke because of a knee problem for the Premier League trip to Huddersfield.

Wilfried Zaha (groin) has returned to training and is being monitored.

Defender James Tomkins (calf) has also stepped up his recovery so could be involved, but Scott Dann (knee) and Connor Wickham (calf) remain unavailable.

Provisional squad: Hennessey, Van Aanholt, Sakho, Schlupp, Wan-Bissaka, Kelly, Milivojevic, Townsend, McArthur, Ayew, Sorloth, Guaita, Ward, Meyer, Kouyate, Puncheon, Riedewald, Zaha, Tomkins.

Huddersfield and Crystal Palace - Key match stats

*Stats supplied by Opta

This will be the third Premier League meeting between Huddersfield and Crystal Palace, with the away side winning both previous matches without conceding in 2017-18.

Crystal Palace have won all three of their top-flight away matches against Huddersfield, keeping a clean sheet on each trip (5 goals scored). It is their best such 100 per cent away record against a single team in the top tier of English football.

Huddersfield have lost their last two matches in all competitions against Crystal Palace (0-1 in the EFL Cup in September 2017 and 0-2 in the Premier League in March 2018) – they have never lost three consecutive games against the Eagles.

Huddersfield have failed to win any of their last eight Premier League matches (D4 L4); they’ve never gone nine games without winning in the competition.

David Wagner’s Huddersfield side haven’t scored in any of their last four league games at the John Smith’s Stadium – they last went five home league games without finding the net during a six-match streak ending in March 1972.

David Wagner has the worst goals per game record of any manager in the Premier League to have taken charge of 30-plus games (0.71 goals per game).

After winning four consecutive Premier League games, Crystal Palace have since lost their last three matches, conceding exactly two goals in each loss.

Since the start of last season, Huddersfield have scored fewer Premier League goals than any other side to appear in both campaigns (30).

Crystal Palace have lost their last 12 Premier League matches in which Wilfried Zaha has been absent, since a 3-2 win against Sunderland in September 2016. The Eagles have failed to score in 10 of those 12 games, including last time out versus Southampton.

Crystal Palace striker Christian Benteke missed four ‘big chances’ in their 0-2 defeat to Southampton on matchday four – the most by a player in a single Premier League game since Zlatan Ibrahimovic vs Bournemouth in March 2017 (also four misses).

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