Follow live coverage as Crystal Palace faces Brighton & Hove Albion in the Premier League today.
Manchester City is the reigning champions after beating Liverpool to the finish line in a neck-and-neck 2021/22 title race where a comeback win on the final day of the season against Aston Villa secured a fourth title in five years for Pep Guardiola’s side.
Jurgen Klopp’s Reds were on course for a quadruple last season but were forced to settle for just an FA Cup and Carabao Cup win and will return trying to win the title again just as they did in 2020.
It was a dramatic season for Chelsea a year ago with Roman Abramovich now replaced by Todd Boehly as owner in west London. He will want an instant return on his hefty investment at Stamford Bridge while Tottenham, back in the Champions League, will want to kick on once more too.
It’s not all about the action at the top though with Fulham, Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest promoted to the top tier for 2021/22 and hoping to hold their own against the best English football has to offer and avoid the drop.
We will bring you all the action and updates from today’s game in the live blog below:
🆙 for kick-off 🔋#CPFC | #CRYBHA pic.twitter.com/e5oB8LPcgC
— Crystal Palace F.C. (@CPFC) February 11, 2023
Brighton hasn’t kept a clean sheet in any of their last nine Premier League meetings with Crystal Palace, though they’ve also failed to score in just one of those nine games.
As for Brighton, Roberto De Zerbi makes three alterations to the team that beat Bournemouth. Switching from three center-backs to two, Veltman moves out to right-back and Estupinan goes to left-back. As a result, Lamptey is out of the team and is replaced by Webster who partners with Dunk in the middle. In the midfield, Caicedo comes in for Billy Gilmour. Finally, Mac Allister starts instead of Danny Welbeck with Undav moving into the striking position.
Palace make two changes to the team that lost to Manchester United last time out. The first comes at center-back with Tomkins replacing Chris Richards. In the attack, Mateta is picked ahead of Edouard and will lead the line.
BRIGHTON SUBS: Jason Steele, Tariq Lamptey, Jeremy Sarmiento, Julio Enciso, Yasin Ayari, Evan Ferguson, Jan Paul van Hecke, Facundo Buonanotte, Andrew Moran.
BRIGHTON (4-2-3-1): Robert Sanchez; Joel Veltman, Adam Webster, Lewis Dunk, Pervis Estupinan; Pascal Gross, Moises Caicedo; Solly March, Alexis Mac Allister, Kaoru Mitoma; Deniz Undav.
CRYSTAL PALACE SUBS: Sam Johnstone, Joe Whitworth, Luka Milivojevic, Albert Sambi Lokonga, Eberechi Eze, James McArthur, Odsonne Edouard, Naouirou Ahamada, Jairo Riedewald.
CRYSTAL PALACE (4-2-3-1): Vicente Guaita; Nathaniel Clyne, James Tomkins, Marc Guehi, Tyrick Mitchell; Cheick Doucoure, Will Hughes; Jordan Ayew, Michael Olise, Jeffrey Schlupp; Jean-Philippe Mateta.
