A team which can't win at home hosts a side which can't win away this Sunday (14:00 GMT). Crystal Palace have beaten Wolves in the past five Premier League encounters at Selhurst Park but this season has become a forgettable one for both teams.
Palace stripped of home comforts
The mood in the caged away end in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday night was febrile by the end of the laboured 1-1 Uefa Conference League draw with Zrinjski as Crystal Palace fans turned on the players and, in particular, manager Oliver Glasner.
Fan dissatisfaction has been growing over the past 10 weeks, during which Palace have only won once in 15 games, plummeted from fourth to 13th in the league prior to this weekend, exited both domestic cups – including surrendering their defence of the FA Cup to non-league Macclesfield – and sold captain Marc Guehi. Add to that confirmation of Glasner's departure at the end of the season and it's easy to understand the unrest from the terraces.
Glasner's response on Friday was pointed: "Right now, I'm just not good enough to replace the players we sold. I'm just not good enough to integrate the new players in a way to play the same way like we did and I'm not good enough that we can cope with the schedule we had.
"On the other side, I was good enough to play the best season ever, win two trophies and also to look back: 32 points after 26 games…Crystal Palace has been better twice. Once was our season last year, and once in 2021.
"It looks like even now when everybody is completely angry, disappointed, frustrated, we are playing a better Premier League season than eight of the last 10 seasons Crystal Palace has played."
Regardless of the success Glasner has brought to the club, his side will need to significantly raise their level to appease the home crowd against Wolves.
A meagre 37.5% of Crystal Palace's league points this season have come at home, with only Spurs having a lower share. The Eagles haven't won at Selhurst Park in any competition since early November and are experiencing their longest winless home run in the top flight since 1997-98.
Can Wolves remedy their travel sickness?
Wolves finally registered their first away win of the season in any competition last weekend when they overcame League Two side Grimsby in filthy conditions to reach the FA Cup fifth round.
They have drawn three of their past four away league games and need just two more points this season to surpass the lowest overall tally in Premier League history – 11, by Derby County in 2007-08.
Nonetheless, Wolves are in danger of becoming the first club to twice end a Premier League season without an away victory. They went winless throughout the 2003-04 season, while Hull City in 2009-10 were the sixth and most recent side to suffer that fate.
Wolves are also the only team in England's top five divisions without an away league win this season.
