Crystal Palace v West Ham: Key stats and talking points

Crystal Palace host West Ham on Monday (20:00 BST) in a London derby which has seen plenty of goals in recent seasons.

Palace coping better after Thursday matches

Just 335 days after winning their first major trophy, Crystal Palace find themselves only 180 minutes away from a first European final.

They lost Thursday’s Conference League quarter-final second leg to Fiorentina but an aggregate victory should ensure Palace’s recent momentum, which has seen them win six of their past 11 matches in all competitions, is kept up.

Juggling their European and domestic commitments has proved problematic for Palace this season – they have lost six of their 10 Premier League games that have immediately followed a Conference League clash.

However, most of those defeats came in the early part of the campaign – the last four European games have been followed by two wins, a draw and just one defeat.

So there’s plenty of reason for optimism ahead of the visit of their neighbours. But while only Arsenal and Manchester City have kept more than Palace’s 11 home clean sheets in this season’s Premier League, a London derby can often throw up different challenges.

And the Eagles have struggled to keep West Ham at bay in recent seasons, conceding a total of 13 goals on their past five visits to Selhurst Park.

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Hammers showing fight in survival battle

West Ham bounced back in style after the disappointment of a fortnight ago, when they missed out on an FA Cup semi-final on penalties.

Their biggest league win for three years – 4-0 over Wolves – moved them out of the bottom three for only the second time in 2026 and they were given another boost with relegation rivals Tottenham suffering defeat.

The Hammers’ form in 2026 has not been that of a bottom-three club. They have taken 18 points from their past 11 league games, winning five of them.

The team spirit looks solid with several players’ performances standing out. Konstantinos Mavropanos, who had scored one goal in his first 81 Premier League matches, has scored three in his last three, while January signing Taty Castellanos has settled straight in with five goals in all competitions so far, including two in that Wolves victory.

Meanwhile captain Jarrod Bowen, who has eight goals and eight assists this season, has been involved in nine goals in his past 10 league games, figures that are among the best in the top flight.

West Ham look to have the trickiest run-in of the teams battling to avoid relegation but on their current form, they have every chance of avoiding the drop.