London rivals Crystal Palace and Chelsea face off at Selhurst Park this evening and talkSPORT will bring you the derby clash exclusively live.
The Blues make the short trip across the River Thames and down to Croydon in confident mood having thrashed Watford at the weekend.
Frank Lampard’s men are still holding onto fourth in the Premier League table but need to keep winning to make sure of their Champions League spot for next term.
Palace, meanwhile, have been woeful recently, losing three on the bounce including Saturday’s hammering at Leicester.
While the Eagles appear clear of the threat of relegation now, they’ll be eager to confirm their safety as soon as possible.
Chelsea beat Palace 2-0 in November thanks to goals from Tammy Abraham and Christian Pulisic while N’Golo Kante gave them a 1-0 win in south London last season.
Crystal Palace vs Chelsea: How to listen
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Crystal Palace vs Chelsea: Team news
Crystal Palace have no new injury concerns for Chelsea’s trip to Selhurst Park.
Jeffrey Schlupp and James Tomkins have been long-term absentees with hip and thigh issues respectively and are not expected to feature again this season.
Martin Kelly returned to training on Monday after a calf problem but is unlikely to be part of the matchday squad.
Chelsea, meanwhile, will be without N’Golo Kante for the short trip to south London.
The midfielder suffered a hamstring injury in Saturday’s 3-0 victory over Watford and is likely to be missing for a week.
Fikayo Tomori had an unspecified setback and is still absent, as is Mateo Kovacic with an Achilles injury.
Crystal Palace provisional squad: Guaita, Ward, Dann, Cahill, Van Aanholt, Milivojevic, Kouyate, Townsend, McArthur, McCarthy, Ayew, Zaha, Benteke, Hennessey, Sakho, Woods, Tavares, Mitchell, Meyer, Pierrick, Riedewald.
Chelsea provisional squad: Arrizabalaga, Azpilicueta, Christensen, Rudiger, Alonso, Barkley, Jorginho, Pulisic, Willian, Abraham, Caballero, Zouma, James, Emerson, Loftus-Cheek, Gilmour, Mount, Hudson-Odoi, Giroud.
Crystal Palace vs Chelsea: Match stats
- Crystal Palace have lost four of their last five home league games against Chelsea, winning the other in October 2017.
- None of the last 17 Premier League meetings between Crystal Palace and Chelsea have finished level, with the Blues winning 13 to Palace’s four.
- Only Fulham (19.5%) have a lower win rate in Premier League London derbies than Crystal Palace (23.5% – won 24/102). Meanwhile, Chelsea have the highest win percentage in such matches (51.4% – won 131/255).
- Chelsea have scored exactly twice in nine of their last 10 Premier League London derby matches (W7 D1 L2), failing to score in the other (0-1 v West Ham in November).
- Crystal Palace are the only unbeaten side in Premier League home London derbies this season (W1 D1). Defeat here will see every London side lose a home derby in the competition for the first time since 2012-13.
- Crystal Palace have lost their last three Premier League games without scoring a single goal. They last lost four in a row without scoring between May-September 2017 – a run of eight under three different managers (Sam Allardyce, Frank de Boer and Roy Hodgson).
- Chelsea have won four of their last five Premier League games (L1) – as many as they had in their previous 13. The Blues have also scored at least twice in nine of their last 10 Premier League matches, losing 0-2 against Man Utd in the other.
- Crystal Palace are the only side yet to score more than twice in a single Premier League game this season, while no side has failed to score in as many home games as the Eagles (6). However, Chelsea have kept just one clean sheet away from home in the Premier League this term.
- In their four Premier League games since the restart, Gary Cahill has had more shots on target than any other Crystal Palace player, with his three efforts on target accounting for 43% of the Eagles’ total (3/7).
- Against Watford, Willian became just the sixth player in Premier League history to score a penalty in three consecutive appearances in the competition – no player has ever scored from the spot in four successive games.
