Crystal Palace Ladies v Lewes Women
FA Women's Championship | VBS Community Stadium
Sunday, 12 November 2023 @ 2.00pm
Mid-season relegation candidates Lewes Women face a challenge away against high-flying Crystal Palace Ladies at the VBS Community Stadium on Sunday.
Lewes Women are 11th in the FA Women's Championship table, and have picked up one win and one draw in their nine games to date.
Crystal Palace, meanwhile, are fourth in the standings with 17 points, having won five and drawn two of their first eight matches, and are four points behind table-toppers Sunderland Women.
With 28 goals in eight games so far this season, Crystal Palace are the league's highest scorers with 3.5 goals per game. And they are conceding fewer than average, letting in eight goals at a rate of 1.0 per game.
Lewes, meanwhile, are below average scorers, with 0.3 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.3. They have conceded 1.6 goals per game.
In Elise Hughes, the home side have the league's most on-form striker so far this season. She has notched nine goals in eight appearances.
The visitors' top scorers, with one goal each, are Grace Riglar, Caragh Hamilton and Hollie Olding.
Crystal Palace are in good form in the FA Women's Championship, with four wins and a draw from their last six games.
With a win and five losses over that period, Lewes's form is much worse – they have taken three points from 18, compared to Crystal Palace's 13.
In the last three years, Crystal Palace and Lewes have played each other on nine occasions. Crystal Palace won five of them, Lewes two, and they drew twice.
On average, Crystal Palace scored 1.7 goals and Lewes 1.2 in those matches.
Their last meeting was on October 11, when they played out a 1-1 draw.
Crystal Palace's last match was on November 5, a 3-0 win against Watford LFC, with Hughes (two) and Shauna Guyatt getting the goals for Crystal Palace.
Lewes lost 1-0 against Charlton Athletic Ladies last time out, on November 3.