Bournemouth vs Crystal Palace – as it happened: Junior Stanislas converts penalty to clinch all three points
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Your support makes all the difference.Bournemouth take on Crystal Palace at the Vitality Stadium as two of the Premier League's mid-table staples bid to stake a claim for the top half of the league.
Palace come into the game three points behind the Cherries having ended a run of three straight defeats with a win over Huddersfield and a frustrating goalless draw against Newcastle.
Bournemouth's fast start to the season came to a strange halt at Burnley where they were thrashed 4-0, but Eddie Howe's side can climb up to seventh in the table with all three points tonight.
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19 minutes
Palace's attackers are trying to press higher up but are being bypassed rather easily. Adam Smith is seeing plenty of the ball.
20 minutes
Oof - Wilfried Zaha miscontrols out of play to cheers and jeers from the home crowd. A quiet start for the Eagles' star man.
22 minutes
It feels like there will be more goals in this one, and Ryan Fraser looks to find one. Callum Wilson peels out to the right and is found, but Mamadou Sakho marshals him well out of play.
24 minutes
David Brooks and Ryan Fraser are both cutting inside at-will and looking dangerous doing so. A clever flick from the latter nearly works a chance but it is snuffed out once more.
Palace just struggling to get into the game.
25 minutes
In to the box and out again go Palace, though, and Luka Milivojevic lines up an effort. Firmly hit, but Nathan Ake gets his sizeable frame in the path of that one and a free-kick will allow Bournemouth to clear their lines.
27 minutes
Bournemouth pressing forces an errant clearance from Mamadou Sakho and the Cherries again have the ball in a forward area.
On top.
29 minutes
David Brooks is a little late on Patrick Van Aanholt and draws the first card of the evening.
Max Meyer stands over a free-kick about 35 yards out wide on Palace's left. He'll look to swing one in.
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