Crystal Palace vs Chelsea LIVE!

CRYSTAL PALACE TEAM NEWS

Team to play Chelsea: Guaita, Ward, van Aanholt, Dann, Cahill, McArthur, Kouyate, Milivojevic, Zaha, Ayew, Benteke.

Subs: Hennessey, Meyer, Townsend, Sakho, McCarthy, Woods, Mitchell, Pierrick, Riedewald.

CHELSEA TEAM NEWS

Team to play Crystal Palace: Arrizabalaga, Azpilicueta, James, Christensen, Zouma, Gilmour, Mount, Barkley, Willian, Pulisic, Giroud.

Subs: Caballero, Rudiger, Alonso, Jorginho, Abraham, Pedro, Loftus-Cheek, Hudson-Odoi, Batshuayi.

1 min

KICK OFF! The players, staff and match officials take the knee once more before Chelsea get the game underway!

GOAL! CRYSTAL PALACE 0-1 CHELSEA (Giroud, 6)

8 min

Palace make the change : Mamadou Sakho replaces the injured Cahill.

12 min

Barkley takes the free-kick himself, there’s a deflection as the ball veers just wide.

15 min

Zaha breaks Chelsea’s offside trap and sees Benteke in the centre but Christensen gets back to concede the corner.

24 min

Time for drinks.

GOAL! CRYSTAL PALACE 0-2 CHELSEA (Pulisic, 27)

GOAL! CRYSTAL PALACE 1-2 CHELSEA  (Zaha, 35)

44 min

Joel Ward clips the top of the bar that it had just swung out of play.

45 min

Four additional minutes at the end of this half. 

HT: CRYSTAL PALACE 1-2 CHELSEA

46 min

We’re back up with no changes at the break.

52 min

Giroud seeks the run of Pulisic in the centre but Dann intercepts.

59 min

Milivojevic slips and is caught by his own team-mate Ayew on the way down and is in need of some treatment to a facial injury.

67 min

We’re at the drinks

GOAL! CRYSTAL PALACE 1-3 CHELSEA (Abraham, 71)

GOAL! CRYSTAL PALACE 2-3 CHELSEA (Benteke, 72)

77 min

Benteke goes down in the box from McArthur’s cross under pressure from Zouma but no penalty is given.

85 min

Mason Mount effort was just creeping into the far corner before the Palace keeper made a vital save. 

90 min

There will be added five minutes…

90 + 5 min

FT: CRYSTAL PALACE 2-3 CHELSEA