Crystal Palace

The barmiest match: Cole nets 4 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 29th September 2024
One of the barmiest games in living memory saw Chelsea defeat Brighton 4-2 at Stamford Bridge, with Cole Palmer the first player in Premier League history to score four times in an opening half. Indeed a scoreline of 7-4 wouldn’t have been unreasonable after a surreal first 45 minutes, with spectators staring open-mouthed as goal
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Relief at final whistle 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 16th January 2023
If you could have converted Chelsea fans’ heartbeats into electricity at the weekend’s clash with Palace, you’d have been able to power the capital. With a collective sigh of relief from supporters, the Blues clung on for a 1-0 win at the Bridge, and now face a daunting trek to Anfield to face a Liverpool
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Conor back to haunt Palace 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 1st October 2022
There was a strange inevitability about the dying moments of the Crystal Palace v Chelsea match as Conor Gallagher – last year’s Selhurst Park hero after spending a season with the Eagles on loan – came on as sub and scored a last-gasp winner just as ref Chris Kavanagh’s watch ticked over to the start
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Semis loom for Chelsea 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 15th April 2022
Within hours of each other, Chelsea’s men and women play mirror FA Cup semi-finals on Sunday… the men (in yellow) at Wembley, and the women at Arsenal’s Boreham Wood ground. Emma Hayes mused that, with a sell-out crowd at the Gooners’ stadium, the time must be approaching when the women’s semis could also be staged
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A Tuchel masterstroke 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 19th February 2022
A bold, masterful second-half triple substitution by Blues manager Tom Tuchel finally broke the deadlock at Selhurst Park as Chelsea nicked all three points right at the death. The sides had seemed evenly matched until Jorginho, N’Golo Kane and Malang Sarr were subbed in the 74th minute for Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Mateo Kovacic and Marcos Alonso
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Trev….. oh! Debutant scores 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 15th August 2021
As Blues fans made their way home in the August sunshine after a satisfying 3-0 victory over London rivals Crystal Palace, all the talk was about Trevoh Chalobah, the defender manager Thomas Tuchel believes holds the key to Chelsea’s defensive foundation for the season. Tuchel has given the 22-year-old plenty of pre-season starts, and now
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