This Sunday, 3rd January, Crystal Palace and Chelsea will play their twentieth game of the Premier League season at Selhurst Park.
The teams last played in August last year and Crystal Palace won the game 1 – 2. Before that Chelsea beat Crystal Palace in both May 2015 and October 2014. Both of the teams have drawn their last two matches.
However, it looks like Chelsea is finally set for a victory as they are favourites to win the match; the bookmakers at Winner Sports have given the team odds of 1/1 to win while the odds on Crystal Palace are 59/20 and a draw has been set at 12/5. In the correct score market the shortest odds of 21/4 are on Chelsea winning 1 – 0 or a 1 – 1 draw followed by 15/2 on a 2 – 0 or 2 – 1 victory for Chelsea.
Crystal Palace is currently fifth in the Premier League with 31 points having won 9 games, drawn 4 and lost 6. They are four points below Tottenham Hotspur.
Chelsea is fourteenth in the League with 20 points having won 5 games, drawn 5 and lost 9. They are tied for points with Norwich City and Bournemouth.
