Crystal Palace vs Newcastle lineup, previews & predictions | ENGLAND Premier League 2018 / 2019 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Crystal Palace are on the hunt for their first Premier League (PL) home points and goals of the season as Newcastle roll-up to Selhurst Park. With three of the last six H2Hs ending in a draw, this could be a tight match. Palace have scored just four goals in five matches (W2, L3), keeping a clean sheet in their two wins so far - both coming away from home. It may be too early to know if fitness is an issue, but from Palace’s combined goals for, and conceded, tally over their five PL games, they have a positive goal score of 2-1 in the first-half, and a negative of 2-5 in the second. Newcastle, meanwhile, suffered another narrow defeat in the last round as Arsenal took all three points at St. James Park. ‘The Magpies’ have lost four of five matches this season, remarkably all defeats ended 2-1! It’s now five away PL matches without a win for Newcastle (D1, L4), scoring a paltry two goals in that period. With such goal-scoring troubles, the team sits in 19th place, despite conceding less goals than nine other teams. Players to watch: Wilfried Zaha is crucially important to this Palace team. He became the club’s all time PL top-scorer earlier this season, and has three goals in his last four PL starts. Joselu, meanwhile, has scored two goals for Newcastle so far. Stat attack: Five of Palace’s six matches this season (in all competitions) have ended under 2.5 goals, as have four of the last five H2Hs. Newcastle have scored the first goal in seven of the last eight league H2Hs. Andre Marriner will referee the match at Selhurst, as he did last season. He’s pulled out his yellow cards 13 times in four PL matches so far this season (3.25 on average per match).