Chelsea 1-2 Crystal Palace: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 1 April 2017
Result
Chelsea 1-2 Crystal Palace
Premier League · Saturday 1 April 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-2
Chelsea 1-2 Crystal Palace: match report
Chelsea lost to Crystal Palace 1-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 1 April 2017. The half-time score was 1-2.
Cesc Fàbregas opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Chelsea's goal came from Cesc Fàbregas (5'). Crystal Palace scored through Wilfried Zaha (9') and Christian Benteke (11').
Discipline: Chelsea received 3 yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Chelsea were 1st on 69 points from 28 and Crystal Palace 16th on 28 points from 28. Chelsea went on to finish that season 1st with 93 points, and Crystal Palace 14th with 41.
Chelsea lined up in a 3-5-1-1 and Crystal Palace in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Cesc Fàbregas of Chelsea (8.7), ahead of Wayne Hennessey (8.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Chelsea wins, 1 draw and 2 for Crystal Palace.
Going into the match Chelsea's last five read W-W-W-D-W and Crystal Palace's W-W-W-L-L.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Cesc Fàbregas
- 9'Goal · Wilfried Zaha
- 11'Goal · Christian Benteke
- 50'Yellow card · Diego Costa
- 68'Yellow card · Christian Benteke
- 73'Yellow card · Luka Milivojevic
- 79'Yellow card · Gary Cahill
- 83'Yellow card · David Luiz
Head-to-head
Team news
Chelsea line-up (3-5-1-1)
Thibaut Courtois, César Azpilicueta, David Luiz, Gary Cahill, Pedro, Cesc Fàbregas, N'Golo Kanté, Nemanja Matić, Marcos Alonso, Eden Hazard, Diego Costa
Crystal Palace line-up (4-2-3-1)
Wayne Hennessey, Joel Ward, James Tomkins, Mamadou Sakho, Jeffrey Schlupp, Luka Milivojevic, Yohan Cabaye, Wilfried Zaha, Jason Puncheon, Andros Townsend, Christian Benteke