Crystal Palace vs Liverpool LIVE: Premier League result, final score and reaction today
Follow all the action from Selhurst Park as the Reds look to close the gap at the top of the table
Liverpool head to Crystal Palace on Sunday afternoon, hoping for a third win in a week to start to put pressure back on Manchester City at the top of the Premier League. Victory for the Reds would leave them nine points adrift of the reigning champions with a game in hand, following their draw with Southampton on Saturday. Jurgen Klopp’s team have rediscovered form of late after a slight stutter, beating Brentford last weekend before dispatching Arsenal in midweek to reach the Carabao Cup final.
For Palace, this has undoubtedly been a season of progress and putting into place building blocks for an exciting-looking future, after a summer squad overhaul and the appointment of Patrick Vieira as manager. They sit 13th in the table, with just one win from the last five following a draw at Brighton last time out.
Victory would push the Eagles back into the top half, though the scale of their task is underlined by the fact the Reds have emerged triumphant in all of the last nine competitive meetings between these two teams, including a 3-0 win at Anfield in September and a 7-0 thrashing at Selhurst Park last term. Follow all the team news and match action as Crystal Palace host Liverpool below:
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Chelsea 0 - 0 Tottenham
9 mins: Japhet Tanganga closes down Malang Sarr too forcefully and gives Chelsea a free kick on the halfway line. Jorginho plays the ball up to Lukaku who flicks it off to Ziyech. Mount attempts a run into the box from the right but Ziyech’s through ball is intercepted and sent out for another Chelsea corner.
Chelsea 0 - 0 Tottenham
6 mins: Chelsea have settled quickly here. The ball comes out to Hudson-Odoi who brings it into the final third and passes it across to Jorginho. He lays it off to Ziyech who sets himself and then shoots from outside the box. He strikes it well enough but his effort gets deflected behind for a corner that Tottenham then deal with.
Chelsea 0 - 0 Tottenham
3 mins: Chance! Chelsea get up the pitch with a long ball to Romelu Lukaku. The striker brings it under control and holds of Eric Dier before giving it to Mount. Mount slides the ball inside to Hakim Ziyech who curls a cross to the back post. Callum Hudson-Odoi arrives in the box, wins the ball in the air and heads it just wide of goal!
Chelsea 0 - 0 Tottenham
Kick off: Tottenham get the ball rolling and boot it over to the left wing where it goes out of play to give Chelsea throw in. The Blues work the ball down the right wing where Mason Mount gets in behind Ryan Sessegnon. He sends the ball into the box where Romelu Lukaku shoots on the turn and belts the ball over the crossbar!
Chelsea vs Tottenham
Here come the teams. Chelsea can get their gap on Manchester City to 10 points if they win today and at the same time open a nine point gap on fourth placed Manchester United. The last thing Thomas Tuchel wants is to be drawn into a battle for a top four place.
Tottenham on the other hand will finish the day in fourth place if they manage to defeat the Blues on their home turf. Spurs will alos want revenge for the Carabao Cup semi-final where Chelsea beat them over two legs.
Chelsea vs Tottenham
Chelsea could become the first Premier League team to win four games against an opponent in a season since Manchester City against West Ham in 2013-14, while the last side to win three games in the same month against an opponent were Aston Villa against Blackburn in January 2010.
Chelsea vs Tottenham
Harry Kane has scored just once in his last seven London Premier League derbies. However, his 39 derby goals is second only to Thierry Henry’s 43.
Kane has also gone seven appearances without a goal against Chelsea in all competitions.
Chelsea vs Tottenham
Thomas Tuchel has failed to win in four successive league matches for the first time since October 2016 during his time in charge of Borussia Dortmund.
Chelsea have dropped 13 points from a winning position this season, the most by a team in the top half of the table prior to the weekend.
They have kept only two clean sheets in 13 league matches, compared to seven clean sheets in their opening 10.
Chelsea vs Tottenham
Tottenham are unbeaten in all nine of their Premier League fixtures under Antonio Conte but Spurs have failed to win any of their last 13 away league matches against sides starting the day in the top four.
They are looking to avoid equalling their club top-flight record of five successive away defeats in London derbies, having done it twice before in 1982 to 1984 and 1996 to 1997.
Liverpool indebted to Alisson as win over Crystal Palace keeps pressure on Man City
Liverpool remain in the Premier League title race after a 3-1 win at Crystal Palace, but this victory - a 10th in a row over this particular opponent - owed far more to some world-class goalkeeping and a very questionable penalty call than to their own fine start to the match.
The Reds were excellent for the first half an hour, then almost fashioned their own demise for the next 30 minutes. Only Alisson Becker proved an immovable barrier, and allowed the league’s second-placed team to move to within nine points of Manchester City, still with a game in hand.
Liverpool indebted to Alisson as win over Crystal Palace keeps pressure on Man City
Crystal Palace 1-3 Liverpool: Van Dijk and Oxlade-Chamberlain put the Reds clear before Edouard pulled one back and Fabinho netted a late penalty to clinch the win
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