Chelsea vs Crystal Palace prediction, football betting tips and free bets

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Chelsea vs Crystal Palace predictions

Chelsea's transfer activity made plenty of headlines this summer and their 6-2 win at Wolves in their last league game is perhaps the most impressive result of the campaign.

Noni Madueke scored a hat-trick at Molineux and the Blues look to have a great chance of building on that success at home to Crystal Palace, even if they did limp through in the Conference League in midweek when they lost the second leg of their playoff against Swiss side Servette.

Enzo Maresca's side bounced back well from an opening 2-0 home defeat to champions Manchester City, which was only their second home defeat in 14 league matches, but Palace should be positive having suffered defeats to Brentford and West Ham.

Oliver Glasner's Eagles will have taken some heart from their 4-0 EFL Cup win over Norwich and they ran the Blues close at Stamford Bridge last season.

They lost 2-1 to a late Madueke penalty and we could witness a similar scenario where Palace do enough to find the net but are unable to stop the big spenders from taking the points.

Chelsea vs Crystal Palace team news

Chelsea: Romeo Lavia continues to struggle with a hamstring injury while Reece James has a thigh problem.

Crystal Palace: Matheus Franca is out with a fractured rib while defender Chadi Riad suffered a knee injury in the midweek EFL Cup win over Norwich.

Chelsea vs Crystal Palace predicted line-ups

Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Sanchez; Gusto, Fofana, Colwill, Cucurella; Caicedo, Fernandez; Madueke, Palmer, Mudryk; Jackson

Crystal Palace (3-4-3): Henderson; Clyne, Guehi, Richards; Munoz, Wharton, Lerma, Mitchell; Kamada, Mateta, Eze

Chelsea vs Crystal Palace key stat

Both teams have scored in 11 of Crystal Palace's last 14 Premier League away matches

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