Chelsea boss Frank Lampard has highlighted the importance of their upcoming match against Crystal Palace.
The Blues have the best record in London against their fellow city rivals and will hope that form continues as they look to return to winning ways after scraping a draw against West Brom last weekend.
Lampard said: "It's important, as important as every game, I know that's a slightly a cliched answer.
"We've gone and won at Brighton, which was a tough game.
"Then we lost to the champions with 10 men for 45 minutes, when it was nil-nil.
"Then at West Brom the first 30 minutes three clear mistakes make goals. Normally you lose those games but we've managed to get a point.
"So I think there's certainly some clear perspective that needs to go into our first three games.
"But of course we want to win the game against Palace, because we want to win games, we want to find that feeling of win and win and win, which we're absolutely capable of with this team.
"But we're absolutely very early on in the season, as a group, with players that are now coming fit, and new signings that will be getting more settled every day that we train together and improve together.
"So I'm not concerned.
"We will attack the game with confidence and a real desire to win, and that's what we should do with every game."
Lowdown
Chelsea will be looking to improve on their form after coming from 3-0 down against West Brom. They welcome Crystal Palace, who they have beaten in their last five meetings but have never won six league games in a row against the Eagles.
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When & where?
The match will take place at Stamford Bridge on Saturday (October 3).
What time is kick-off?
The game will start at 12:30pm.
Is it on TV?
Yes. You can watch the game live on BT Sport 1 HD.
Prediction
Frank Lampard's men aren't firing on all cylinders yet - and Palace are the kind of team to take advantage. Again.
Chelsea 2-2 Crystal Palace.
Team news
Christian Pulisic (hamstring), Hakim Ziyech and Billy Gilmour all remain unavailable for Chelsea.
Palace have Gary Cahill, James Tomkins, Scott Dann and Patrick van Aanholt back in training.
