Crystal Palace v West Ham live stream, match preview, team news and kick-off time for this Premier League match

Crystal Palace v West Ham live stream and match preview, Saturday 29 April, 12.30pm BST

Crystal Palace v West Ham live stream and match preview

Looking for a Crystal Palace v West Ham live stream? We’ve got you covered. Crystal Palace v West Ham is on BT Sport in the UK. Brit abroad? Use a VPN to watch the Premier League with your subscription (opens in new tab) from anywhere.

Crystal Palace and West Ham are heading towards the sweet relief of a mid-table finish, but both sides will still be glancing over their shoulders ahead of their meeting at Selhurst Park.

Roy Hodgson’s return as manager sparked an upturn in form for Palace that arrested their slide and sent them back into 12th, eight points above the bottom three, but the Eagles could only pick up one point from their last two games against Everton and Wolves.

The Hammers have a Conference League semi-final on the horizon but will be aware of the importance of picking up points here, as they are five points clear of the drop and face the two Manchester clubs in their next two games.

Palace won the first meeting of the season 2-1 in November, coming behind after Said Benrahma’s opener to claim victory with a Wilfried Zaha leveller and 94th-minute Michael Olise winner.

Kick-off is at 12.30pm BST. Make sure you know how to watch the Premier League (opens in new tab) wherever you are.

Team news

Palace defender Joachim Andersen is carrying a knock, while Nathan Ferguson, Nathaniel Clyne and Wilfried Zaha are a few days away from reaching full fitness.

Gianluca Scamacca is West Ham’s only long-term absentee, with the Italian out for the rest of the season with a knee injury.

Form

Crystal Palace: LDWWW

West Ham: LWWDD

Referee

Craig Pawson will be the referee for Crystal Palace v West Ham.

Stadium

Crystal Palace v West Ham will be played at Selhurst Park in London. 

Kick-off and channel

Crystal Palace v West Ham kick-off is at 12.30pm BST on Saturday 29 April in the UK. The game is being shown in the UK by BT Sport (opens in new tab).

VPN guide

If you’re out of the country for a Premier League fixture, then you won’t be able to watch on your domestic streaming service as usual. The broadcaster knows where you are because of your IP address (boo!) and blocks you from watching it. You can use a VPN to get around that, though, without resorting to illegal feeds you’ve found on Reddit.

A Virtual Private Network (VPN), assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs, creates a private connection between your device and t’internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are and will let you watch. And all the info going between is entirely encrypted, anonymous and safe – and that’s a result.

There are plenty of good-value options out there. For the Premier League, FourFourTwo currently recommends:

International Premier League TV rights

• UK: Sky Sports (opens in new tab) and BT Sport (opens in new tab) are the two main players once again, but Amazon (opens in new tab) also have a slice of the pie in 2022/23. 
• USA: NBC Sports Group are the Premier League rights holders, with the Peacock Premium (opens in new tab) streaming platform showing even more than the 175 games it aired last season. If you pick up a fuboTV subscription (opens in new tab) for the games not on Peacock Premium, you’ll be able to watch every game.
• Canada: The way to watch Premier League football in 2022/23 is fuboTV (opens in new tab), which has exclusive rights to all the action.
• Australia: Optus Sport (opens in new tab) will screen every game of the Premier League season. Non-subscribers can access the action via a Fetch TV box (opens in new tab) and other friendly streaming devices.
• New Zealand: Sky Sport (opens in new tab) are serving up all 380 games – plus various highlights and magazine shows throughout the week, as well as the Champions League.

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Alasdair Mackenzie is a freelance journalist based in Rome, and a FourFourTwo contributor since 2015. When not pulling on the FFT shirt, he can be found at Reuters, The Times and the i. An Italophile since growing up on a diet of Football Italia on Channel 4, he now counts himself among thousands of fans sharing a passion for Ross County and Lazio.