Chelsea vs Crystal Palace Prediction, Betting Tips and Preview
Chelsea take on Crystal Palace in Premier League action this Saturday. Read the match predictions to find out why we’ve tipped a home win at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea v Crystal Palace FC TIPS
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Chelsea vs Crystal Palace Preview
Chelsea have suffered back-to-back defeats to the hands of Manchester United and Manchester City which has left them in 5th place in the league and 5 points off Tottenham who currently occupy the last Champions League spot. Antonio Conte has had a mixed season with Chelsea and overall pretty poor considering the current champions are a hefty 25 points adrift of league-leaders Man City. Their current form is the worst it has been in a long time, losing four of their last five league games and picking up points only against bottom of the table West Brom. Conte will be hoping to pick up maximum points against Palace to keep the pressure on Tottenham who have their Champions League clash against Juventus on Wednesday night from which some players may be drained from going into their clash with Bournemouth on Sunday.
Chelsea have only managed to beat Crystal Palace twice from their last five meetings and given the visitors came close to taking points from Manchester United on Monday night, it may prove to be another tricky game.
Tiemoue Bakayoko, Ethan Ampadu and David Luiz will all miss the game through injury while Ross Barkley and N’Golo Kante are both unlikely to be fit. Given Chelsea’s recent results, Conte could look to bring Alvaro Morata back into the starting XI in replace of Pedro.
Crystal Palace had three points in their hands on Monday evening when they hosted Manchester United. Goals in either half from Andros Townsend and Patrick van Aanholt gave them a two-goal lead before Mourinho’s men fought their way back with goals from Chris Smalling and Romelu Lukaku and then took all three points with a superb injury-time strike from Nemanja Matić. Roy Hodgson will be bitterly disappointed that his side couldn’t hold on to a win which would have taken them out of the relegation zone and up to 15th in the table. Instead, they face another tough challenge which could leave them deeper in the bottom three should Stoke take away something from their game against Manchester City on Monday night.
Palace are now six games without a win and have found the net just nine times on the road this season. Hodgson’s side face Liverpool in two weeks time and so avoiding defeat on Saturday is essential to keep moral up and get some points on the board.
Roy Hodgson has a number of injury concerns with Scott Dann, Wilfried Zaha, Connor Wickham, Jason Puncheon, Bakary Sako, Julian Speroni, Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Mamadou Sakho and Ruben Loftus-Cheek all sidelined. Joel Ward and Yohan Cabaye are also doubts adding to Hodgson’s worries.
Chelsea vs Crystal Palace Betting Tips
- Chelsea have won 4 drawn 1 and lost 5 of their last 10 matches
- Crystal Palace have won 2 drawn 3 and lost 5 of their last 10 matches
- Over the course of their previous 10 matches, Chelsea have scored an average of 1.8 goals and conceded an average of 1.3 goals per game
- Over the course of their previous 10 matches, Crystal Palace have scored an average of 1 goal and conceded an average of 1.6 goals per game
- There have been over 2.5 goals scored in 8 of Chelsea’s previous 10 matches
- There have been over 2.5 goals scored in 5 of Crystal Palace’s previous 10 matches
Chelsea vs Crystal Palace Predictions
Crystal Palace almost spung a shock result against Manchester United on Monday but were unable to keep their composure. They face another tough game this week and despite Chelsea also being in poor form, we can’t see the visitors taking anything away from Stamford Bridge. Hodgson has a number of players out through injury which may mean he sets his side up defensively. This could potentially backfire should Chelsea find an early goal from which there may be no coming back from.
We’re expecting Chelsea to get back to winning ways on Saturday and keep their hopes alive of securing a Champions League spot by picking up three points.
Team Lineups
| Chelsea | Crystal Palace |
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| 3-4-2-1 | 4-4-2 |
| Goalkeeper | |
| Thibaut Courtois |
Wayne Hennessey |
| Defenders | |
| Cesar Azpilicueta Andreas Christensen Gary Cahill |
Martin Kelly James Tomkins Patrick van Aanholt Aaron-Wan Bissaka |
| Midfielders | |
| Cesc Fabregas Marcos Alonso Willian Davide Zappacosta Eden Hazard N'Golo Kante |
Luka Milivojevic James McArthur Jeffrey Schlupp Andros Townsend |
| Forwards | |
| Olivier Giroud |
Alexander Soerloth Christian Benteke |
| Substitutes | |
| Victor Moses Wilfredo Caballero Pedro Rodriguez Ethan Ampadu Alvaro Morata Tiemoue Bakayoko Emerson |
Wilfried Zaha Pape Ndiaye Souare Timothy Fosu-Mensah Jairo Riedewald Diego Cavalieri Chung-Yong Lee Mamadou Sakho |
| Coach | |
| Antonio Conte |
Roy Hodgson |
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Head to Head Statistics
Last8 matches
| Chelsea | Crystal Palace |
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| Wins | |
| 4 | 4 |
| Corners | |
| 49 | 31 |
| Fouls | |
| 65 | 84 |
| Shots | |
| 127 | 72 |
| Shots on Target | |
| 43 | 27 |
| Yellow Cards | |
| 9 | 15 |
| Red Cards | |
| 1 | 1 |
Chelsea have beaten Crystal Palace 11 times from the 16 they have played them with Crystal Palace winning just 4. However, Palace have won the last two meetings, both with a scoreline of 2-1, home and away.
In this meeting last season, Chelsea took an early lead in the 5th minute with a goal from Cesc Fabregas only to see it cancelled out by Wilfried Zaha four minutes later. Palace then took the lead in the 11th minute through Christian Benteke thus sealing an impressive win and taking home three points from Stamford Bridge.
LiveChelsea vCrystal Palace Updates
| Willian | 25' |
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| Own Martin Kelly | 32' |
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| 46' | in Wilfried Zaha out Christian Benteke | |
| 59' | Patrick van Aanholt | |
| in Alvaro Morata out Olivier Giroud | 72' |
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| 75' | out Jeffrey Schlupp in Jairo Riedewald | |
| 81' | in Chung-Yong Lee out Andros Townsend | |
| Alvaro Morata | 86' |
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| 86' | James Tomkins | |
| in Tiemoue Bakayoko out Cesc Fabregas | 88' |
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| in Pedro Rodriguez out Eden Hazard | 88' |
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| 90' | Patrick van Aanholt |
Compare Odds
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| Under 2.5 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.25 | 2.2 | 2.32 | 2.3 | 2.2 | ||
| Under 6.5 | 1.01 | 1.02 | 1.01 | 1.01 | |||||
| Over 6.5 | 21 | 21 | 27.03 | 13 | |||||
| Over 1.5 | 1.19 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.17 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | ||
| Under 1.5 | 4.33 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 5.1 | 5 | 4.5 | ||
| Over 5.5 | 10 | 7.5 | 9.5 | 10 | 10.5 | 11 | 9 | ||
| Under 5.5 | 1.06 | 1.06 | 1.07 | 1.04 | 1.06 | 1.06 | 1.06 | ||
| Over 3.5 | 2.62 | 2.5 | 2.55 | 2.62 | 2.74 | 2.75 | 2.63 | ||
| Under 3.5 | 1.44 | 1.48 | 1.5 | 1.44 | 1.51 | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
| Under 8.5 | 1 | ||||||||
| Over 4.5 | 5 | 4.25 | 4.6 | 4.75 | 5.2 | 5 | 4.5 | ||
| Under 4.5 | 1.16 | 1.18 | 1.2 | 1.15 | 1.19 | 1.2 | 1.2 | ||
| Over 0.5 | 1.04 | 1.02 | 1.04 | 1.02 | 1.02 | 1.03 | |||
| Under 0.5 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 12 | |||
| Over 7.5 | 51 | 67 | |||||||
| Under 7.5 | 1.01 | 1 | |||||||
| Over 2.5 | 1.64 | 1.62 | 1.62 | 1.62 | 1.68 | 1.67 | 1.67 | ||
| Over 8.5 | 126 | ||||||||
| Over 2.75 | 1.84 | ||||||||
| Under 2.75 | 2.06 |
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| Yes | 2.1 | 2.05 | 2.1 | 2.15 | 2.12 | 2.1 | 2.1 | ||
| No | 1.66 | 1.7 | 1.73 | 1.65 | 1.75 | 1.8 | 1.73 |
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| Crystal Palace FC - Draw | 23 | 26 | 27.03 | 20 | 23 | ||||
| Crystal Palace FC - Chelsea | 23 | 23 | 25 | 19 | 23 | ||||
| Draw - Crystal Palace FC | 23 | 23 | 25.97 | 17 | 26 | ||||
| Crystal Palace FC - Crystal Palace FC | 21 | 23 | 22.99 | 15 | 19 | ||||
| Chelsea - Chelsea | 1.83 | 1.91 | 1.88 | 1.8 | 1.85 | ||||
| Chelsea - Draw | 23 | 23 | 27.03 | 15 | 23 | ||||
| Draw - Draw | 8.5 | 8 | 9.4 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Chelsea - Crystal Palace FC | 67 | 101 | 80 | 67 | 86 | ||||
| Draw - Chelsea | 3.75 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 3.75 | 4 |
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| Draw | 5.75 | 5.5 | 5.75 | 5.5 | 5.9 | 6 | 5.5 | ||
| Crystal Palace FC | 12 | 10.5 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 12 | ||
| Chelsea | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.29 | 1.3 | 1.29 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
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