Hello and welcome to Eurosport's LIVE digital coverage of Chelsea and Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge. All the facts, stats and team news will be coming your way over the next hour with kick-off at 15:00 GMT.

Kick-off is less than five minutes away as both sides get ready to make their way out onto the pitch

After winning back-to-back away league games against Chelsea in 2015-16 and 2016-17, Crystal Palace have lost their last four visits to Stamford Bridge by an aggregate score of 11-2.

In a pre match press conference Tuchel set his stall out early, letting City know they are coming for them "We had a very good end to the season, so we want to build on that. We want to hunt Man City down from the first game"

In the build up to today's game Vieira made it clear that his side are up for the London derby "Chelsea are playing great football and it will be a challenging game for us, but we believe in ourselves and we are up for the difficulty we will face."

Crystal Palace have won two of their last three season openers in the Premier League (D1), keeping a clean sheet in all three matches. The Eagles had won just two of their previous 15 top-flight openers (D4 L9).

Chelsea have lost their opening match in two of the last four Premier League seasons (W2), as many as they had in the previous 23 campaigns (W16 D5 L2).

Crystal Palace will be without exciting summer loan signing Conor Gallagher for today's match as he's ineligible to face his parent club, while captain Luka Milivojevic will be absent due to personal reasons

And here is Crystal Palace's team...

The Blues announced their record signing of Romelu Lukaku from Inter Milan on Thursday, but the Chelsea faithful will have to wait to see the return of their number nine as the deal didn't quite get over the line in time for him to play in today's game

Here is the starting eleven for Chelsea....

Chelsea come into their opening Premier League match having lifted the UEFA Super Cup on Wednesday evening, while Palace's new manager Patrick Vieira knows a thing or two about winning a London derby, he'll be looking to show the travelling fans what he can bring to the club and improve on their 14th place finish last season.