No surprise that Chelsea are dominating possession in these early stages.

Lucy Bronze is looking lively and she's tried to squeeze the ball into Melvine Malard a couple of times already, but Crystal Palace's defence have stood up to those challenges so far.

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Courtney Sweetman-Kirk
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It's going to take discipline and the big thing Crystal Palace haven't shown so far is being clinical. You're not going to get given many chances against Chelsea this season.

You have to make sure that when the opportunities present themselves, you take them as the Palace players.

Away we go in south London...

Just a few minutes before kick-off. Let us hear your predictions for today's games!

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Chelsea could rise to the top of the table with a win this afternoon and pile some pressure on Manchester City before they take on Manchester United in this evening's derby.

And I'm sure Sonia Bompastor will see this as a game where her Blues can improve on their goal difference, which currently sits at 15 - the best in the league by four goals.

Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace boss Jo Potter speaking ahead of kick-off about Lexi Potter: "I didn't get to work with Lexi. She's obviously a young player that was at Palace before I came in but everyone speaks so highly of her. I think first and foremost apparently she's a great human being, she's a great kid, she's always got time for everybody so Palace fans love her but hopefully there's not too much of that love today - it's all for our players! But it's great to see a young player doing so well at Chelsea."

The stats don't make for good reading for Crystal Palace fans.

In the WSL era, Chelsea have won each of their seven matches against Crystal Palace in all competitions by an aggregate score of 25-0.

Chelsea

Chelsea boss Sonia Bompastor speaking ahead of kick-off: "That's important for us coming into this game, to play with the confidence we have seen in the previous games. I think we need to play with our standards, the way we want to perform - that's really important.

"Every game is important in this league. The one today is three points as are the ones previously so we need to perform today and to make sure we play with the standards we want to."

On James and Walsh dropping out: "We have many games coming, it's the opportunity to rotate a little bit the squad. Probably they were not coming in this game with the freshness that we wanted them to have. I want to have the players at 100%. They'll be fine for the next one. Also we have quality in the squad so hopefully today the players who are starting and the finishers will to the job."

On Hamano and Nusken coming in: "I think they showed last week coming in they had a really good impact in the game, scoring goals. Being starters I expect the same - for them to be able to bring confidence when we have the ball, also enegery when we don't have the ball and if they have the opportunity to score, why not?"

Crystal Palace haven't had the best of luck when it comes to playing Chelsea in the Women's Super League.

In their only previous WSL season, they lost 7-0 at home and then 4-0 away.

A lot of things have changed since then, though.

We've got the Manchester derby coming up today, but we had a high-stakes north London derby to enjoy yesterday.

Pressure had been building on Arsenal boss Renee Sleger after her side had failed to win any of their previous five WSL matches, but they did just enough to beat rivals Tottenham and secure a crucial three points thanks to Alessia Russo's second-half penalty.

And Brighton claimed just their second win of the season with an emphatic 3-0 victory over West Ham that included a long-range stunner from Maisie Symonds.

Three changes for Jo Potter's Crystal Palace, with Allyson Swaby, Hayley Ladd, and Annabel Blanchard replacing Shannon O'Brien, Jamie Napier, and Sierra Enge.

Crystal Palace XI: Peyraud-Magnin, Goldie, Everett (c), Bartrip, Lloyd-Smith, Ladd, Tsunoda, Swaby, Blanchard, England, Larkin.

Substitutes: Napier, Enge, Sharpe, Howat, Weerden, Nolan, Hopcroft, O'Brien, Yanez.

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Sonia Bompastor makes two changes from last weekend's win over Tottenham, with Sjoeke Nusken and Maika Hamano coming in for Keira Walsh and Lauren James - both of whom drop out of the matchday squad.

Summer signing Manaka Matsukubo is named on the bench for the first time this season.

Chelsea XI: Hampton, Carpenter, Bronze (c), Buchanan, McCabe, Nusken, Potter, Kaptein, Thompson, Hamano, Malard.

Substitutes: Peng, Buurman, Las, Dragoni, Baltimore, Brown, Cuthbert, Matsukubo, Beever-Jones.

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Right, let's get the team news for today's early kick-off...

Here's what we've got coming up this afternoon...

• Crystal Palace v Chelsea (12:00)
• Liverpool v London City Lionesses (14:00)
• Everton v Aston Villa (14:00)
• Birmingham City v Charlton (14:00)
• Man Utd v Man City (18:00)

How are we all? Windswept and ready for more WSL action this weekend?

The weather might not be at its sunny best but we've got a jam-packed schedule today with five games to look forward to.

We'll kick things off in 30 minutes with Crystal Palace v Chelsea and wrap the day with a Manchester derby, so let's get straight into it!

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