Crystal Palace 1-1 Chelsea: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 4 January 2025

Result

Crystal Palace 1-1 Chelsea

Premier League · Saturday 4 January 2025, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Crystal Palace 1-1 Chelsea: match report

Crystal Palace drew with Chelsea 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 4 January 2025. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Cole Palmer opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Crystal Palace's goal came from Jean-Philippe Mateta (82'). Chelsea scored through Cole Palmer (14').

Discipline: Crystal Palace received no yellow cards; Chelsea received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 15th on 20 points from 19 and Chelsea 4th on 35 points from 19. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 12th with 53 points, and Chelsea 4th with 69.

Crystal Palace lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Chelsea in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Robert Sánchez of Chelsea (7.9), level with Jean-Philippe Mateta (7.9).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Crystal Palace wins, 1 draw and 9 for Chelsea.

Going into the match Crystal Palace's last five read W-D-L-W-D and Chelsea's L-L-D-W-W.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Goal · Cole PalmerChelsea · 0-1
  • 65'Yellow card · Levi ColwillChelsea
  • 80'Yellow card · Enzo FernándezChelsea
  • 82'Goal · Jean-Philippe MatetaCrystal Palace · 1-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Crystal Palace 0, draws 1, Chelsea 9.

Team news

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Crystal Palace line-up (3-4-2-1)

Dean Henderson, Chris Richards, Maxence Lacroix, Marc Guéhi, Daniel Muñoz, Cheick Doucouré, Jefferson Lerma, Tyrick Mitchell, Ismaïla Sarr, Eberechi Eze, Jean-Philippe Mateta

Chelsea line-up (4-2-3-1)

Robert Sánchez, Malo Gusto, Joshua Kofi Acheampong, Levi Colwill, Marc Cucurella, Enzo Fernández, M. Caicedo, Pedro Neto, Cole Palmer, Jadon Sancho, Nicolas Jackson