Can Brentford be effective against Palace?

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Crystal Palace will hit the road to take on Brentford on Sunday, a fixture that usually see's the Bees victorious.

Brentford are unbeaten in their last six home league games against the Eagles, the last home loss coming in December 1957, in the Third Division South.

The Bees have only won just five of their last 30 Premier League London derby matches however. Contrast that with Oliver Glasner's side, who seem comfortable on the road in the capital, with their last nine away London derbies delivering six wins.

Keith Andrews' side are however proving tough to get at.

They are facing a shots on target figure of just 4.2 per game on average - their lowest mark in five seasons. The flip side to this perhaps? The Bees have averaged just 3.9 shots of their own on target - a low for their five seasons in the league.

So they are giving up little but need to be efficient in attack to make it count.

Much might come down to Igor Thiago then. He has scored two or more goals in six different Premier League games this season. Only Erling Haaland has hit a double more during the campaign and the next player to have bagged a brace or better so often in a season was Harry Kane in 2017-18, doing so nine times.