They’ve already been crowned the new unbeatables by some, but can Chelsea do it on a mildly sunny afternoon in south London? Today’s task for Hazard and co: grab maximum points against Crystal Palace.

Chelsea calm everything down and start knocking it about in the middle of the park.

CHANCE! Cahill's header back towards goal is terrible. Campbell swoops in, gets a big toe on the ball and watches his looped effort land on the roof of the net. What an opportunity to draw level!

And another stat for you… Chelsea are unbeaten in all the previous 12 Premier League matches where Oscar has netted (10 wins).

That was Oscar’s first Premier League away goal since netting in the 3-0 win at Southampton on January 1st 2014.

The Chelsea faithful are in good voice too. Interestingly, their chants have stretched beyond the usual drivel of “Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea…”

Instead of going for the corner closest to him, the Brazilian rifled his effort across Speroni. Top stuff.

GOAL! Chelsea 1-0 Palace. Oscar pings a free-kick into the top corner. Wonderful strike.

Branislav Ivanovic floats a glorious delivery into the mixer, but it just evades those in yellow.

Remy leads a counter-attack and switches the ball out to Willian on the right-flank. Chelsea quick to respond. Great atmosphere.

PANIC! Hangeland floats into the penalty area and almost latches onto a low corner. Courtois spreads himself and makes a fine block.

CHANCE! Frazier Campbell embarrasses Gary Cahill with a cheeky turn, wriggles himself an opening and has a stab at goal. Thibaut Courtois is quick off his line to make a smart stop.

Chelsea get us underway. Selhurst Park is bouncing.

Flags flutter in the capital breeze as Palace and Chelsea emerge onto the pitch. The hosts are in their customary red and blue; the visitors line in up in a garish yellow.

Loic Remy, time to stake your claim for a proper place in Mourinho’s plans. A double hat-trick would probably be enough to make him take Costa's spot.

Manchester City’s 4-1 victory over Tottenham carried them to within two points of Chelsea. The Blues have a chance to restore their five-point gap with victory this afternoon.

And the musings of Jose Mourinho: "From that specific game (at Palace) last season, I lost and I deserved to lose. So when I lose and have deserved to lose, I know why I have lost but that does not give me a lesson. Last season we lost there because they were better than us in every aspect of the game."

Here are Neil Warnock's pre-match thoughts: "I don't think you can stop Diego Costa. And you can talk about Costa but there is also Eden Hazard, Oscar - you name it, they are all top-class players. There's Cesc Fabregas and the unsung heroes. But we worry about our players not theirs. If you think about their players too much, you wouldn't sleep."

Crystal Palace boss Neil Warnock makes one change as Brede Hangeland replaces Scott Dann at the back.