Chelsea vs Crystal Palace: Match Preview, Probable Starting Lineups and Prediction – English Premier League

Crystal Palace visit Stamford Bridge in attempt to halt Chelsea’s title celebrations as Mourinho’s men close in on league triumph.

Diego Costa is the only absentee for Mourinho as the Spanish International continues to recover from is Hamstring injury. With Loic Remy back to full fitness, Ivorian International striker Didier Drogba might be rested having started the midweek league fixture against Leicester. Petr Cech and Ramires will drop back to the bench with Oscar and Thibaut Courtois returning to the starting lineup.

Crystal Palace will be without forwards Marouane Chamakh and Fraizer Campbell with injury while Jerome Thomas will also wait for full fitness. Joel Ward was not a part of Palace’s 2-0 loss to Hull at home with a shin injury and Pardew will not risk him just yet with important games to come.

Probable Starting Lineups:

Chelsea:

Formation: 4-2-3-1

Courtois

Ivanovic-Cahill-Terry-Azpilicueta

Matic-Ramires

Hazard0Fabregas-Willian

Remy

Crystal Palace:

Formation: 4-3-3

Speroni

Kelly-Dann-Delaney-Kelly

McArthur- Jedinak-Puncheon

Zaha-Murray-Bolasie

Prediction:

Chelsea 3-0 Crystal Palace