While this term has seen early success for both, when they met last season the two played out two drab 0-0 draws as each cancelled the other out.
This season, both the Cherries and the Eagles have started the campaign well – and have players who have hit some early season form.
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Antoine Semenyo is flying for Bournemouth, with six goals and three assists. Those goals come from just 17 shots, meaning he has the fifth best chance conversion rate this season so far, with 35.3 per cent.
He has also completed 15 of his 32 attempted dribbles, which sees him rank in the top five in the league for both metrics.
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Palace’s Ismaila Sarr betters him on the chance conversion front, though, with 42.9 per cent, and Semenyo is joined on 17 shots by Eagles striker Jean-Philippe Mateta.
Mateta has the second most shots on target and the second most big chances in the league, too with 11 and nine respectively, although he has only scored twice.
The two sides’ respective left backs in Adrien Truffert and Tyrick Mitchell rank highly in successful open play crosses, with seven each.
A huge part of the Cherries system under Iraola is the press, and nothing demonstrates this more than Evanilson’s stats for high pressures applied in the final third.
He sits third in this metric in the league, with 128, which he is second for pressures in the opposition box, with 62.
Both teams like a long throw as well, with Semenyo launching 21 into the box – the second most – and Palace’s Chris Richards isn’t far behind with 18.
Set pieces, like long throws, is set to be a key battle ground on Saturday, something that Andoni Iraola is expecting could hold the key for a positive result for either team.
“I think set pieces are massive in these kind of games and they've been, if not the best, one of the best teams with Arsenal probably past season and this season in set plays,” Iraola told the Daily Echo.
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“They have also very tall team playing obviously three tall centre backs, Mateta they have big threats in also a pitch that I think is a little bit smaller than the others in the Premier League.
“So we've paid attention but doesn't mean that we are going to be perfect. It's like you work on these things because they can make a massive difference.
“They won the last game at home against Liverpool. First corner, boom, they score. So you don't want to be in that position.
“So let's try to prepare well for these kinds of games. And also offensively if we can make the difference with someone scoring a free kick or putting it in the top corner, I don't know.
“I think it's always a good help.”