Shame they have a game Thursday as we may be playing a manager less Chelsea on the Sunday which may work more in their favour? In truth a poor Chelsea side should be good enough to beat us at the moment. 2:0 Chelsea :-(

It is a thought actually that if they do get a good win Thursday it might lull them into a sense of slightly more security and less of a foot on the proverbial pedal.

The words 'clutching' and 'straws' come to my mind but you never know!

COYP

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

I cant see us getting anything out of this game. Chelsea are desperate for a win. We could not have got them at a worse time.
Our only chance is to keep it goalless for 60 odd minutes then start to hit them on the break just as they start to take a few chances. Problem is, that was our tactic in the cup against them. Look how that worked out!
I see a 3 0 defeat and I am generally an optimist

By the time we play Chelsea they'll no doubt have either sacked Potter and we'll get to face a rejuvenated Chelsea or he'll be fighting for his job and they throw everything at us.

Predicting Palace results is never much fun but maybe we can play some Palace Bingo to provide some entertainment in the next game. I wonder how many of these things we will be able to cross off.

Palace to miss a sitter.
Palace to miss a penalty.
Chelsea to score an undeserved worldie.
Ref to have a howler.
Concede just before or after half time.
Concede after 90th minute.
Gallagher to score.
Mateta to come on at 80mins at which point we lose our shape and any attacking threat.
Schlupp and Eze misplace a 10 yard pass.
Guaita to fluff a clearance.
Struggle to make 3 consecutive passes before HT.

(Secretly I'm trying to jinx all of these so that we ride out easy 3-0 winners )

Edited by samprior (09 Jan 2023 6.45pm)

We will look marginally better, but Chelsea will still beat us fairly easily. We'll get 1-2 half chances that will come to nothing. Chelsea will bury their chances.

I'll say 0-2 Chelsea, with the result flattering us a bit.

2017 Feb. (Van Aanholt) Palace 1 - 0 Middlesboro
2018 Jan. (Sako) Palace 1 - 0 Burnley
2019 May (Batshuayi, Batshuayi, OG, Van Aanholt, Townsend) Palace 5 - 3 Bournemouth
2020 Feb. (Van Aanholt) Palace 1 - 0 Newcastle

It's always darkest before the dawn - I'll stick with my 1-2 Palace away win.