W. Zaha has scored a goal for Crystal Palace! Assist by R. Loftus-Cheek.
Loftus-Cheek does well to play Zaha in, but he still had so much to do before finding the bottom corner. Magic from the winger!
GOAL!! Palace are level!!! It's in the seventh minute of stoppage time, but Palace won't care! Zaha gets away from both Kouyate and Rice in the box and fires the ball across Hart into the far corner! What a turnaround for Palace! Selhurst Park erupts, but there's a very sour-looking Hammers boss in the dugout, who must be furious that the full-time whistle wasn't blown earlier. It's 2-2!
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Loftus-Cheek produces a driving run through midfield before feeding Zaha, whose shot it blocked. Antonio gets away down the right and slows up, but after beating Schlupp decides to cross instead of holding the ball, and it's easily dealt with.
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Hernandez gets into the box well, but hesitates, and plays the ball back instead of shooting. The attack breaks down, and the Mexican apologises to his team-mates.
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It's all Palace in these closing stages. They just can't seem to find that second goal! Hart has done well on a few occasions to deny them, and possibly give his West Ham side an important three points.
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CHANCE! Tomkins is so unlucky to see his header tipped onto the bar by Hart! Palace are getting closer here. They have SIX minutes of stoppage time to find an equaliser. Tomkins was unmarked, and Sako just couldn't wrap his foot around the rebound.
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Rice makes a great interception from Zaha's low cross, but with Hart diving the wrong way, he could very easily have turned that into his own net!
88'
Zaha fouls Antonio in the corner, before Palace win a free-kick themselves in the same position. Palace are showing real urgency now.
87'
Loftus-Cheek produces some lovely skill, nutmegging one and skipping away from another, but his pull-back is poor and goes behind everyone, allowing West Ham to regroup.
85'
A. Masuaku gets yellow.
Masuaku concedes a free-kick on the left and goes into the book as well.
84'
S. Dann gets yellow.
Dann hauls Hernandez to the floor and gets a deserved yellow card.
CHANCE! Ogbonna switches it well to Antonio on the right, who cuts in and fires one at the top corner with his left foot, but it sails over.
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Sako has been a positive introduction for Palace, and he wins another corner. It's overhit to Zaha at the back post, who fires another cross in that's headed out to Milivojevic, who produces a neat turn but fires over from the edge of the box.
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CHANCE! Cabaye curls a free-kick towards the corner but Hart flings himself across to beat it away! It may well have been heading for the post but he was taking no chances there.
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CHANCE! Zaha cuts inside well but dwells on the ball a second too long and his shot is blocked. Sako then wins a corner, which is worked out to Zaha again, who gets away down the left and fires one across goal that Hart saves and Ogbonna has to be alert to clear the follow-up. Zaha is playing like a man possessed at the moment!
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D. Rice enters the game and replaces José Fonte.
And the change is made. Fonte hobbles off the pitch with the help of the physio and teenager Rice comes on as his replacement.
74'
Fonte goes down in his own box and the physio team is waved over. He may well have to be replaced.
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Cabaye catches Fonte from behind as he looked for Antonio and concedes a free-kick. The midfielder has given away a fair few fouls this afternoon.
70'
Palace looks threatening from a corner, but Hart is out to quell the danger by clinging on to the ball.
67'
Kouyate slips at the back post as Lanzini's free-kick deflects out to him, and Palace try to counter quickly, before Fosu-Mensah is stopped in his tracks by a vigorous challenge.
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Antonio produces a monstrous throw down the line, and Tomkins grapples with Hernandez and leaves him in a heap. He had his arm around the striker's head then!
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M. Antonio enters the game and replaces P. Zabaleta.
Another attacking change sees Zabaleta replaced by Antonio at right wing-back.
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B. Sako enters the game and replaces J. Ward.
Sako comes on for Ward in a very attacking substitution for Palace. Hodgson clearly feels that his side can win this game. Fosu-Mensah goes across to right-back, Schlupp drops in to left-back, and Sako joins the forward line.
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Ayew is fouled yet again, this time by Fosu-Mensah. Lanzini takes the free-kick, but it's too close to Speroni, who catches comfortably.
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CHANCE! Zaha opens up his box of tricks as he advances into the penalty area from the left. He skips away from two, before firing one at the near post which Hart is there to save.
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Fonte makes a mess of Lanzini's corner as he gets his contact all wrong and heads the ball well, well wide.
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POST! Ayew is felled again in the middle but the referee deems it a fair challenge and Palace play on. Zaha gets away from three down the left before pulling it back for Cabaye on the edge of the box, who smashes one across goal but sees it come back out off the upright with Hart beaten!
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Penalty goal scored by L. Milivojević for Crystal Palace!
PENALTY! Obgonna puts his arm into Townsend as he drives down the left and the winger goes down! They had a shout dismissed in the first half, but this one's been given!
GOAL! Milivojević steps up and smashes it to the left as the keeper dives the wrong way. That makes it 2-1 and Palace are right back in this!
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Lanzini is the latest man to be fouled, as Palace's frustration begins to show.
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Ayew's rough treatment by Palce continues where it left off. He's felled by Cabaye in the centre circle. Perhaps they didn't appreciate his goal as much as West Ham fans and neutrals would have.
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A. Masuaku enters the game and replaces A. Cresswell.
And we're back underway! Cresswell is replaced at the break by Masuaku. Perhaps he sustained an injury?
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CHANCE! The half ticks on as Palace push on through Zaha, who wins a corner on the left through sheer determination as much as skill. Cabaye swings it in and Dann heads it towards Loftus-Cheek at the near post, but it comes off him and goes wide.
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Palace pile men forward as the half draws to a close in a desperate attempt to nick a goal back before the break. However, Tomkins brings Ayew down clumsily on the halfway line and the forward stays down. He looks like he's in a lot of pain.
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A. Ayew has scored a goal for West Ham United!
GOAL! What a stunning effort from Ayew!! He races through the middle, turns Dann inside and out before rifling a left-footed shot into the top left-hand corner from the edge of the box! What a week it's been for the forward! That was a moment of rare quality in this game, and it's put West Ham in a very comfortable position now.
42'
Ward wastes yet another crossing position with a wild effort into the stands. The crossing has been really, really poor today from Palace.
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After another scrappy spell, Townsend swings a left-footed cross in from the right, but Hart is out to gather assertively.
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P. Zabaleta gets yellow.
Zabaleta gets a yellow for lunging in on Fosu-Mensah. It was a very rash challenge.
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CHANCE! How have Crystal Palace not levelled it?! Loftus-Cheek heads the ball back into the path of Tomkins, who powers a header at goal. Hart saves superbly, but Fonte scuffs his clearance, allowing Schlupp the chance to stab the ball goalwards. It hits Hart on the arm, though, who didn't know anything about it!
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CHANCE! Ogbonna nearly replicates his midweek heroics as he gets his head on a corner at the near post, but he can only direct it wide!
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J. Hernández has scored a goal for West Ham United! Assist by A. Cresswell.
Cresswell produced a quality, low cross that was perfectly into the path of Hernandez's late run. Excellent wide play from the left-back.
GOAL! Hernandez does what he does best! The little Mexican gets on the end of a fizzed cross from Cresswell and produces a very clever first-time finish with the outside of his right-boot that fools Speroni, who can't keep it out despite getting a touch to it. 1-0 West Ham!
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Zaha shows great quick feet on the left, but he's crowded out and eventually the ball is lost. When he comes out wide, he can create things with his exceptional talent - the problem is, there's nobody in the middle to create them for.
27'
Neither side can seem to keep any sort of composure past the halfway line, as Schlupp sends another cross out for a goal kick.
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Fosu-Mensah gets a little bit of space on the left, but his cross with his weaker left foot is wild and goes out for a goal-kick.
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West Ham enjoy a spell of possession, before Schlupp wisn the ball well and tries to spark a counter-attack, but it runs through to Hart.
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Both sides are struggling to find a rhythm here, neither of them can keep the ball for a sustained period. It's resulted in a relatively end-to-end game, but the lack of quality in the final third is stark at the moment.
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Additionally, Loftus-Cheek appears to be out on the right, with Townsend in support of Zaha in attack, although there seems to be some freedom to interchange for the forwards.
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Fosu-Mensah has slotted in at left-back in a like-for-like swap. Schlupp and Ward both have more experience in the position, but Hodgson clearly doesn't want to reshuffle too much.
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Fernandes is the latest player to go down, clutching his knee after a collision with the recently-introduced Fosu-Mensah. He looks as though he may well be able to continue, but is taken off the pitch for treatment for the time being.
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T. Fosu-Mensah enters the game and replaces P. van Aanholt.
Van Aanholt is down holding the back of his leg after a cross. It doesn't look great for the former Sunderland man, who has to be replaced by Manchester United loanee Fosu-Mensah.
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Palace pile on the pressure, but are lacking the quality in the final third necessary to make their pressure count. They miss their strikers badly, with Zaha often drifting wide in order to create something.
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The free-kick is whipped to the back post by Cabaye, but Hart eventually gathers from the resulting header.
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Lanzini gives away a foul in the corner for a push on the much bigger Loftus-Cheek.
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It looks as though West Ham are actually playing a 3-4-2-1 with Kouyate dropping in as the right-sided centre-half, rather than playing in a midfield three.
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And we're off!
Hello and welcome to our LIVE coverage of the Premier League fixture between Crystal Palace and West Ham at Selhurst Park.
The lineups have been announced, and we'll start with the home side.
Crystal Palace XI (4-2-3-1): Speroni; Van Aanholt, Tomkins, Dann, Ward; Cabaye, Milivojevic; Schlupp, Loftus-Cheek, Townsend; Zaha
West Ham substitutes: Masuaku, Rice, Carroll, Arnautovic, Antonio, Obiang, Adrian
Today's sides come into the game off the back of vastly differing results. West Ham produced a dramatic turnaround in the EFL Cup in midweek, beating Tottenham 3-2 at Wembley having been 2-0 down in the first half - a result that Hammers manager Slaven Bilic badly needed. Crystal Palace, however, were soundly beaten by Championship outfit Bristol City, losing 4-1 with a much-changed side.
Both sides have been in poor form in the Premier League, however, mustering just three wins between them - one for Palace and two for West Ham. The Eagles remain rooted to the foot of the table, while the Hammers remain outside of the relegation zone by virtue of goal difference alone. And both sides also lost in the last round of Premier League fixtures - Palace slipped to a 1-0 defeat at Newcastle courtesy of a late Mikel Merino header, while West Ham were thumped 3-0 at home to newly-promoted Brighton as Glenn Murray scored a brace.
And West Ham will be further boosted by Manuel Lanzini's scoring record against the hosts, having scored once in each of his four games against them - more than any other West Ham player. Additionally, nine of his 14 Premier League goals have come in London derbies.
Crystal Palace have lost their last three home league games against West Ham, while the Hammers have never lost to the Eagles under Slaven Bilic in four games (W3 D1). Palace have also lost 12 of their last 14 Premier League fixtures without scoring. Over the course of 2017, that figure rises to 17 goalless defeats in 29 games. And without both recognised centre-forwards, the home side face a real battle to improve that statistic in what is a massive game for both teams.
Palace are missing James McArthur in midfield today, who failed a late fitness test as he lost the race to be fit for this game. He joins Lee Chung-Yong, who suffered a knock against Bristol City and strikers Christian Benteke and Connor Wickham on the sidelines.
West Ham welcome Andy Carroll back onto the bench, having served his suspension for his red card against Brighton. Michail Antonio makes the bench too, after passing a late fitness test for a bruised rib.
West Ham XI (4-3-3): Hart; Cresswell, Ogbonna, Fonte, Zabaleta; Noble, Kouyate, Fernandes; Lanzini, Hernandez, Ayew
And that's half-time! A very disjointed first-half performance from both teams, but the two moments of real quality have both come from West Ham, and they've both resulted in goals. Hernandez cleverly converted Cresswell's low cross with the outside of his foot from inside the box, before Ayew produces a stunning individual effort, turning Dann inside and out before finding the top corner spectacularly. Palace have looked - as they did against Newcastle - completely devoid of a presence up front with both Zaha and Townsend drifitng wide and deep in search of the ball. They could very well have levelled the game at 1-0 down, however, if not for a double-save from Hart. The England man beat away Tomkins' inital header, and was fortunate to see Schlupp's follow-up deflect off his arm and over the bar. It's 2-0 to West Ham at the break!
And that's it! What an end to the game! After a low-quality opening, West Ham took what looked like a comfortable lead in the first half when Hernandez produced a clever finish with the outside of his boot and Ayew scored an outstanding individual goal. However, a second-half Milivojevic penalty gave Palace a lifeline and Zaha - playing out of his skin - eventually nicked an equaliser in the seventh minute of stoppage time when only six had been awarded! It finishes 2-2 here after a dramatic end to an exciting game!
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