{"id":663556,"date":"2026-01-25T07:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=663556"},"modified":"2026-01-25T07:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T12:49:41","slug":"chelsea-vs-crystal-palace-confirmed-lineups-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/01\/25\/chelsea-vs-crystal-palace-confirmed-lineups-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs Crystal Palace Confirmed Lineups for January 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Chelsea vs Crystal Palace confirmed lineups for their Premier League clash. The Blues are aiming to string together a second league win as they take on a wounded and unstable Crystal Palace side leacking Marc Guehi and with a manager already on his way out the door. Liam Rosenior must take this chance to get some momentum or he risks falling further away from the top four race.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/01\/25\/chelsea-team-news-predicted-lineup-crystal-palace-january\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Team News &amp; Predicted Lineup vs Crystal Palace for January 25<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea vs Crystal Palace Confirmed Lineups for Premier League Tie<\/h2>\n<h3>Chelsea Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Rob Sanchez starts in goal with a back line of Reece James, Trevoh Chalobah, Benoit Badiashile, and Marc Cucurella. Andrey Santos partners Moises Caicedo in midfield with Enzo Fernandez, Pedro Neto, and Estevao supporting Joao Pedro up front.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>Filip Jorgensen, Jorrel Hato, Malo Gusto, Wes Fofana, Liam Delap, and Alejandro Garnacho all drop out of the starting lineup from the midweek win over Pafos. Injury takes Jorgensen out of the squad entirely. Notably there is no Cole Palmer in the squad at all.<\/p>\n<h3>Crystal Palace Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Dean Henderson starts in goal with a back line of Daniel Munoz, Richards, Maxence Laxroix, Tyrick Mitchell and Canvot. Jefferson Lerma partners Adam Wharton in midfied as Ismaila Sarr and Brennan Johnson support Jean-Phillipe Mateta up front,<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>Devenny and Will Hughes miss out as does Yeremy Pino. The setup is still a 3-4-2-1 with a new midfield pairing as the team sets up with four recognised centre-backs on the pitch.<\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Premier League Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Rob Sanchez<\/li>\n<li>Filip Jorgensen<\/li>\n<li>Gaga Slonina<\/li>\n<li>Max Merrick<\/li>\n<li>Marc Cucurella<\/li>\n<li>Tosin Adarabioyo<\/li>\n<li>Benoit Badiashile<\/li>\n<li>Levi Colwill<\/li>\n<li>Jorrel Hato<\/li>\n<li>Trevoh Chalobah<\/li>\n<li>Reece James<\/li>\n<li>Malo Gusto<\/li>\n<li>Wes Fofana<\/li>\n<li>Josh Acheampong<\/li>\n<li>Mykhailo Mudryk<\/li>\n<li>Enzo Fernandez<\/li>\n<li>Cole Palmer<\/li>\n<li>Dario Essugo<\/li>\n<li>Andrey Santos<\/li>\n<li>Moises Caicedo<\/li>\n<li>Facundo Buonanotte<\/li>\n<li>Romeo Lavia<\/li>\n<li>Reggie Walsh<\/li>\n<li>Landon Emenalo<\/li>\n<li>Ollie Harrison<\/li>\n<li>Pedro Neto<\/li>\n<li>Liam Delap<\/li>\n<li>Jamie Gittens<\/li>\n<li>Joao Pedro<\/li>\n<li>Tyrique George<\/li>\n<li>Marc Guiu<\/li>\n<li>Estevao<\/li>\n<li>Alejandro Garnacho<\/li>\n<li>Shumaira Mheuka<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Kavuma-McQueen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Crystal Palace Premier League Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dean Henderson<\/li>\n<li>Remi Matthews<\/li>\n<li>Walter Ben\u00edtez<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Mu\u00f1oz<\/li>\n<li>Tyrick Mitchell<\/li>\n<li>Maxence Lacroix<\/li>\n<li>Marc Gu\u00e9hi<\/li>\n<li>Nathaniel Clyne<\/li>\n<li>Jaydee Canvot<\/li>\n<li>Borna Sosa<\/li>\n<li>Chris Richards<\/li>\n<li>Chadi Riad<\/li>\n<li>Caleb Kporha<\/li>\n<li>George King<\/li>\n<li>Dean Benamar<\/li>\n<li>Jefferson Lerma<\/li>\n<li>Y\u00e9remy Pino<\/li>\n<li>Christantus Uche<\/li>\n<li>Daichi Kamada<\/li>\n<li>Will Hughes<\/li>\n<li>Adam Wharton<\/li>\n<li>Romain Esse<\/li>\n<li>Cheick Doucour\u00e9<\/li>\n<li>Naouirou Ahamada<\/li>\n<li>Kaden Rodney<\/li>\n<li>Justin Devenny<\/li>\n<li>Rio Cardines<\/li>\n<li>Asher Agbinone<\/li>\n<li>Isma\u00efla Sarr<\/li>\n<li>Eddie Nketiah<\/li>\n<li>Jean-Philippe Mateta<\/li>\n<li>Zach Marsh<\/li>\n<li>Ben Casey<\/li>\n<li>Jo\u00e9l Drakes-Thomas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay tuned for the Chelsea vs Crystal Palace confirmed lineups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Chelsea vs Crystal Palace confirmed lineups for their Premier League clash. The Blues are aiming to string together a second league win as they take on a wounded and unstable Crystal Palace side leacking Marc Guehi and with a manager already on his way out the door. Liam Rosenior must take this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":663678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":true,"sfio_embed_code":"<smartframe-embed customer-id=\"84d65181a95c24c4fea73e44b4e27a17\" image-id=\"ltKD9PdZ1nmL\" style=\"width: 100%;max-width: 3000px;aspect-ratio: 3000\/2117\"><\/smartframe-embed><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support -->","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,11,12,3,1831],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-chelsea","category-crystal-palace","category-premier-league","category-starting-line-up"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663680,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663556\/revisions\/663680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}