Crystal Palace 2-1 Chelsea: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 14 October 2017
Result
Crystal Palace 2-1 Chelsea
Premier League · Saturday 14 October 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-1
Crystal Palace 2-1 Chelsea: match report
Crystal Palace beat Chelsea 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 14 October 2017. The half-time score was 2-1.
Crystal Palace's goals came from an own goal by César Azpilicueta (11') and Wilfried Zaha (45'). Chelsea scored through Tiemoué Bakayoko (18').
Discipline: Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards; Chelsea received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Crystal Palace were 20th on 0 points from 7 and Chelsea 4th on 13 points from 7. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 11th with 44 points, and Chelsea 5th with 70.
Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-4-2 and Chelsea in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Cesc Fàbregas of Chelsea (9.3), ahead of Tiemoué Bakayoko (8.4).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Crystal Palace wins, 1 draw and 6 for Chelsea.
Going into the match Crystal Palace's last five read L-L-L-L-L and Chelsea's L-W-D-W-W.
Key events
- 11'Own goal · César Azpilicueta
- 18'Goal · Tiemoué Bakayoko
- 45'Goal · Wilfried Zaha
- 71'Yellow card · Luka Milivojevic
- 83'Yellow card · S. Dann
- 87'Yellow card · Tiemoué Bakayoko
Head-to-head
Team news
Crystal Palace line-up (4-4-2)
Julián Speroni, Joel Ward, Scott Dann, Mamadou Sakho, Patrick van Aanholt, James McArthur, Yohan Cabaye, Luka Milivojevic, Jeffrey Schlupp, Andros Townsend, Wilfried Zaha
Chelsea line-up (3-4-3)
Thibaut Courtois, César Azpilicueta, David Luiz, Gary Cahill, Victor Moses, Cesc Fàbregas, Tiemoué Bakayoko, Marcos Alonso, Willian, Michy Batshuayi, Eden Hazard