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Things could hardly have gone worse for Crystal Palace in 2017/18. Seven defeats from seven Premier League matches is bad enough, but that run is compounded by the fact that the Eagles are yet to score a single league goal. Having replaced Frank de Boer with Roy Hodgson a couple of weeks before our Crystal Palace vs Chelsea preview, things haven’t improved the way chairman Steve Parish would have hoped. Hodgson’s players have taken successive hammerings by both Manchester clubs in their last two fixtures, losing 0-5 to City and 0-4 to United.

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Antonio Conte’s Blues were also beaten by City recently, losing 0-1 at Stamford Bridge to Guardiola’s Citizens just prior to our free Crystal Palace vs Chelsea betting tips. While the final score doesn’t read too terribly, the dominance shown by City against their title rivals will have dented Chelsea’s confidence. It was their first defeat in nine however and a fixture against the Premiership’s bottom side is a great chance to restore some belief.

These London rivals have enjoyed mixed results against each other in recent seasons. They have won two of the last four each, though, at Selhurst Park, the Blues have regularly shown their superiority, winning on each of the last three occasions there. Conte will be without important duo Alvaro Morata and N’Golo Kante, both of who picked up injuries recently. Long-term absentees Christian Benteke and Wilfried Zaha are still unavailable for the Eagles.

Crystal Palace vs Chelsea Prediction and Betting Advice

Unfortunately for Eagles fans, I’m tipping their goal scoring misery to continue in today’s Crystal Palace vs Chelsea bets. The latest football odds are a lot closer to evens than usual for a win to nil option and that is the case for a few reasons. Hodgson’s squad have yet to register a single Premier League goal this season, drawing a blank in seven out of seven matches.

Their star attacker Christian Benteke is absent through injury, as is his depute Conor Wickham. The supply lines have been cut due to Wilfried Zaha’s injury and Yannick Bolasie’s transfer to Everton last summer. With no recognized strikers to choose from, the Eagles attacking statistics have suffered. They have the second lowest shots on target per game numbers in the EPL with 2.3. William Hill have the finest odds for our opening pick, so we recommend using them to place your bet.

Before their 0-1 loss to City, the away side in today’s Crystal Palace vs Chelsea predictions had been building up quite a head of steam in terms of their attacking statistics. The Blues had scored seventeen times in their five matches before that, helped by big wins over Stoke, Nottingham Forest and Qarabag. Hodgson faces the third of the league’s current trio of title favourites in a row this weekend, having recently come up against the two Manchester giants.

The evidence from those encounters suggests that another mauling may be at hand. Should Conte’s Blues win by two clear goals, the second of our football tips today will be successful. With Eden Hazard having got some more precious minutes under his belt for Belgium, his recovery from injury should almost be complete. With his influence almost fully restored, the champion’s potency in the final third should increase exponentially. Unibet have the most lucrative odds in the Asian handicap markets, so grab them while they are hot.