Summary

  • El Ghazi earns draw for Aston Villa at Chelsea

  • Giroud had headed Chelsea in front

  • Villa remain above Chelsea and have two games in hand

  • Result: Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester - Barnes earns Foxes point

  • Zaha gave Eagles lead after Iheanacho penalty saved by Guaita

  • Everton v Man City postponed because of positive Man City Covid-19 tests

Live Reporting

Emma Sanders

  1. FT: Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester City

    Crystal Palace haven’t won their final league game in any of the last nine calendar years (D7 L2), last doing so against Millwall in the Championship in 2011 (1-0).

  2. 'I play with passion'

    FT: Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester

    Crystal Palace

    Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha: "We'll take a point today, the last few games have been hard on us. I'm not thinking about scoring too much I'm just making sure I play well and see the chances keep coming.

    "It's just passion I play with. People may see it as anger but I have passion, I love what I do.

    "The way we wroked today I'm definitely happy and we'll take that going into the new year."

  3. Message from Aymeric Laporte following tonight's postponed match between Everton and Manchester City after an outbreak of positive coronavirus results at City.

    More on that here.

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  4. FT: Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester City

    Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha says he is "pretty happy to be honest" with the point, especially after a few "tough results recently".

    Fair.

  5. FT: Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester City

    Fist pumps from Roy Hodgson for all his players and a big grin for Vicente Guaita. Happy with a point?

    They have now drawn with Leicester and Tottenham.

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    Simon Atkins: People seem to be forgetting, Leyton Orient v Spurs was a cup game. Cup games have an actual pressing expiry date before which they have to be played. League games can be played anytime between now and the end of the season.

    Ben: Devastating week for fantasy football with multiple Chelsea changes, and Man City vs Everton off. My one and only active defender picked up a whopping 2 points. Sigh.

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    Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester City

    All over. Leicester move into second place on goal difference. Palace are up to 13th.

  8. CLOSE!

    Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester City

    James Justin tees up Ayoze Perez in the box. He hits it first time but skews it way over. That was a real chance!

  9. Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester City

    James Justin swing a cross in... Harvey Barnes' header is wide.

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    To those saying games are forfeited in Rugby that was agreed between clubs pre-season starting...no agreement in Premier League.

    Sam, Leicester

    I understand theres health and safety element of it but if your team had 10 players injured you wouldn't be able to postpone your game? How is this unavailability much different? Both have elements of (un)luck and risk involved.

    Alex, Oxford

  11. Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester City

    Harvey Barnes is away in the box. He tries to tee up Jamie Vardy but James McArthur is there to head it out for a corner.

    Youri Tielemans takes it and it misses everyone in the box. That was a wicked ball in too!

  12. Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester City

    Demarai Gray has a go but he gets too much on it. It's always rising and doesn't trouble the keeper.

    Four minutes added on.

  13. Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester City

    Luka Milivojevic stops Harvey Barnes on the left. He tees up Jordan Ayew and Andros Townsend is fed in on the right.

    The ball comes into the box for Christian Benteke but he can only head it back across goal for Kasper Schmeichel to collect.

    James McArthur then gives away a cheap free-kick right on the edge of the Palace box...

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    Re: City call off. When Leyton Orient couldn't play Spurs due to COVID, they had to forfeit the game. What is the difference?

    Frank

    It's ridiculous the game has been postponed. If City's bubble was compromised then they should forfeit the game, just like in rugby. But to say the game is postponed is absurd.

    Dunny

  15. Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester City

    Ayoze Perez, to Harvey Barnes... He shoots from long range but it flies over the bar. Wasn't too far away!

  16. Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester City

    Youri Tielemans' delivery causes problems. It bobbles around - Demarai Gray getting a foot on it before Daniel Amartey's shot is blocked.

    Jordan Ayew, who has just replaced Jeffrey Schlupp, then brings it out for Palace.

  17. Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester City

    Plenty of time for a winner!

    Leicester have a free-kick on the left touchline.

  18. goal

    GOAL - Crystal Palace 1-1 Leicester City

    Harvey Barnes

    Blow for Palace, who just can't stop conceding goals at the minute.

    They give it away from a throw-in and Harvey Barnes picks it up in the middle. He dances past several players, creates space for himself to shoot and squeezes it into the bottom right corner.

    Vicente Guaita sees it late and barely moves off the centre.

    Harvey BarnesReuters

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    John Pulman: I was meant to be going tonight so I am beyond angry right now. If City can't field a team then they should forfeit the game. This isn't like last season. They all know what they have to do.

    Neither an Everton or Manchester City fan but instead of postponement shouldn’t it go down as a loss for Man City, like we’ve seen in some Scottish Premiership and rugby union games? Of course health of players and staff takes top priority but Everton must feel a bit hard done by and drags out an already jam packed, fixture congested season.

    Anonymous

  20. Crystal Palace 1-0 Leicester City

    Cheikhou Kouyate has cramp. He's helped out by James Tomkins before getting up and shaking it off.