Chelsea v Crystal Palace predicted line-ups + FPL team news

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Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
James	CHE	5.6m	95.6%	Maybe
Cunha	MUN	8.0m	55.4%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	94.8%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	94.0%	Unlikely
Woltemade	NEW	7.3m	83.3%	Unlikely
O'Reilly	MCI	5.3m	87.5%	Unlikely
L.Miley	NEW	4.4m	86.3%	Unlikely
Mukiele	SUN	4.2m	82.8%	Unlikely
Gravenberch	LIV	5.6m	75.7%	Unlikely
Stach	LEE	4.8m	76.8%	Unlikely
Gordon	NEW	7.3m	72.4%	Unlikely
Rogers	AVL	7.3m	19.2%	Unlikely
Chalobah	CHE	5.5m	79.8%	Unlikely
Lewis-Potter	BRE	4.8m	70.6%	Unlikely
Dalot	MUN	4.4m	78.0%	Unlikely
Andersen	FUL	4.6m	74.6%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.3m	73.0%	Unlikely
Alderete	SUN	4.0m	68.5%	Unlikely
Tete	FUL	4.5m	66.5%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	66.3%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	64.8%	Unlikely
Mount	MUN	5.9m	59.4%	Unlikely
Roefs	SUN	4.8m	55.3%	Unlikely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.5m	58.5%	Unlikely
Semenyo	BOU	7.7m	38.0%	Unlikely
Rice	ARS	7.2m	17.9%	Unlikely
Virgil	LIV	5.9m	45.3%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	54.8%	Unlikely
Saliba	ARS	5.9m	48.2%	Unlikely
Raya	ARS	6.0m	53.5%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	52.1%	Unlikely
Trossard	ARS	6.9m	49.2%	Unlikely
Watkins	AVL	8.5m	55.2%	Unlikely
Calvert-Lewin	LEE	5.8m	27.9%	Unlikely
Pickford	EVE	5.5m	44.4%	Unlikely
Ekitiké	LIV	9.0m	2.3%	Unlikely
Wirtz	LIV	8.1m	23.6%	Unlikely
Smith Rowe	FUL	5.6m	44.9%	Unlikely
Keane	EVE	4.7m	25.5%	Unlikely
Konaté	LIV	5.4m	40.3%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Thiago	BRE	7.1m	145.5%	Very Likely
Muñoz	CRY	5.9m	101.1%	Very Likely
Vicario	TOT	4.9m	100.8%	Very Likely
Pedro Porro	TOT	5.3m	100.9%	Very Likely
McAtee	NFO	5.1m	100.2%	Very Likely
L.Guilherme	WHU	4.9m	96.3%	Likely
Mamardashvili	LIV	4.3m	98.5%	Likely
Nørgaard	ARS	5.2m	100.3%	Very Likely
Neave	NEW	4.4m	100.3%	Very Likely
Mosquera	ARS	5.4m	100.3%	Very Likely
Piroe	LEE	5.0m	100.4%	Very Likely
Kulusevski	TOT	6.4m	100.0%	Very Likely
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	100.0%	Very Likely
March	BHA	5.8m	99.2%	Maybe
Coleman	EVE	4.3m	100.0%	Maybe
Jair Cunha	NFO	4.3m	98.3%	Maybe
Barnes	NEW	6.2m	88.1%	Maybe
Fitzgerald	MUN	4.4m	96.2%	Maybe
Ajer	BRE	4.4m	94.6%	Maybe
Nwaneri	ARS	5.1m	94.0%	Maybe
Tasker	BHA	3.9m	99.2%	Maybe
James	LEE	5.3m	95.4%	Maybe
Doucouré	CRY	4.9m	95.1%	Maybe
Udogie	TOT	4.4m	94.6%	Unlikely
Bevan	BOU	3.9m	93.8%	Unlikely
Nallo	LIV	3.8m	94.4%	Unlikely
Tchaouna	BUR	4.9m	94.7%	Unlikely
Trafford	MCI	4.6m	92.3%	Unlikely
Barnes	BUR	4.3m	94.9%	Unlikely
De Ligt	MUN	5.0m	92.0%	Unlikely
Fer López	WOL	5.2m	93.0%	Unlikely
Webster	BHA	4.4m	92.5%	Unlikely
Odobert	TOT	5.3m	88.0%	Unlikely
Benitez	CRY	4.0m	90.6%	Unlikely
Yoro	MUN	4.3m	89.6%	Unlikely
Hannibal	BUR	4.8m	88.6%	Unlikely
Robertson	LIV	5.8m	87.9%	Unlikely
Broggio	AVL	4.5m	89.7%	Unlikely
Bayindir	MUN	4.8m	85.3%	Unlikely
Hermansen	WHU	4.3m	85.1%	Unlikely

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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	C
No Change	Alisson	LIV	B, Vs
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	B, Vs, Sus
No Change	Kelleher	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 20 Dec, 2025 12:40am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	B, Vs
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Andersen	FUL	C
No Change	Marc Guehi	CRY	A
No Change	van den Berg	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	B
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	B
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	A
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 20 Dec, 2025 12:42am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	A
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A
No Change	Foden	MCI	A, Vs
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	C
No Change	Szoboszlai	LIV	B, Vs, Inj, Sus
No Change	Minteh	BHA	C
No Change	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	B, Sus
No Change	Schade	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Anderson	NFO	B, £

Last updated: 20 Dec, 2025 12:49am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Thiago	BRE	B, Vs, Inj
Up	Ekitiké	LIV	A, Vs
Up	Bowen	WHU	A
Down	Mateta	CRY	C
Down	Woltemade	NEW	B, Rest

Last updated: 20 Dec, 2025 12:51am

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Aug 10 | Chelsea 4-1 AC Milan (h) | own-goal (James assist), Pedro (Neto assist), Delap pen (Estevao assist), Delap (Santos assist)

Jul 12 | Crystal Palace 1-0 Millwall (h) | Rak-Sakyi (Mustapha assist)

Jul 25 | Crawley Town 0-3 Crystal Palace (a) | Mateta (Sarr assist), Eze (Mateta assist), Munoz (Mitchell assist)

Jul 29 | Crystal Palace 1-1 Mainz (n) | Mateta (Sarr assist)

Jul 29 | Crystal Palace 2-3 Mainz (n) | Esse (Edouard assist), Lacroix (Sosa assist)

Aug 1 | Crystal Palace 3-1 Augsburg (n) | Mateta (Eze assist), Mateta (Richards), Eze

Aug 1 | Crystal Palace 0-1 Augsburg (n)

Aug 10 | Crystal Palace 2-2 Liverpool (n) | Mateta pen (Sarr assist), Sarr (Wharton assist)

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