Palace v QPR

Selhurst Park, Saturday 3.00pm

Story so far

The Cosa Nostra head to Selhurst Park this weekend for a huge relegation showdown.

The QPR family is under the leadership of Gianni Paladini with Luigi De Canio heading in as Sotto Capo.

Anyway, I'll keep quiet about that after Paladini threatened to kill Ian Holloway in "a funny way", but "it didn't mean anything". Ahem.

QPR had an appalling start to the season (yes, worse than Palace), not picking up their first win until mid October. They almost looked certs to be heading straight for the trap door of the Championship but results picked up, they changed managers and now they have Scott Sinclair on loan. Balls.

Team news

Mark Kennedy and PAUL Ifill will both keep their places in the squads after successful comebacks from injury against Cardiff in midweek.

New signing Clint Hill should shake off a minor calf injury to make his home debut in the left-back slot. On-loan Liverpool forward Besian Idrizaj (concussion) and winger David Martin (flu) should be ready to return.

Left-backs Tony Craig (shoulder) and Lee Hills (back) plus striker PAUL DICKOV are sidelined.

QPR defender Martin Cranie has returned to host club Portsmouth after suffering a fractured fibula, so Sampsa Timoska is on hand to step in.

Striker Marc Nygaard is out with a hamstring injury, but former Crystal Palace midfielder Mikele Leigertwood is back after recovering from a broken nose.

Danny Nardiello has overcome a hamstring injury but Rangers won't have Hogan Ephraim after his loan period from West Ham ended.

Quotes

Warnock: "I don;t think any team's too good to go down - I'm not even thinking about that. The sooner we get stabilised, the sooner we can blood some of the younger lads over the last 10 to 15 games at the end of the season. That's my intention.

"At the beginning, I don;t think one or two of the players expressed themselves, but we are improving on that.

"I feel every game we played we could have won, including Watford. If we sort ourselves out, in a few weeks' time we could win games like that."

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QPR - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
21st	14	3	5	6	14

Full league table

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QPR - current form

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
5	2	2	1	5	3

Full form table

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Our home record v QPR

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
42	15	17	10	54	43

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Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
02/12/2006	League	Crystal Palace	3 - 0	QPR
04/11/2006	League	QPR	4 - 2	Crystal Palace
14/02/2006	League	Crystal Palace	2 - 1	QPR
03/10/2005	League	QPR	1 - 3	Crystal Palace
30/12/2000	League	QPR	1 - 1	Crystal Palace

All time results

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One to watch

Scott Sinclair

Scott Sinclair is currently on loan to QPR from Chelsea.

Sinclair absolutely ruined Danny Butterfield away at Plymouth last year. He picked up the ball and just, well - ran, and of course scored.

He is a fantastic winger with pace, skill, an eye for goal - everything. He's such a brilliant player that he's already on ridiculous wages at Chelsea - we couldn't afford to bring him on loan!

Ref watch

P Walton

Last meeting

Palace 3-0 QPR

Saturday December 02 2006

Palace: Turner, Granville, Ward, Hudson, Butterfield (Lawrence, 44), McAnuff, Watson, Soares, Hughes (Green, 89), Freedman (Morrison, 81), Kuqi

Subs not used: Flinders, Kennedy

Goals: Freedman 13, Kuqi 32, Morrison 86

QPR: Royce, Bignot, Rehman, Mancienne, Stewart, Gallen, Rowlands, Smith, Blackstock (Furlong, 77), Ray Jones, Nygaard (Ward, 76)

Subs not used: Cole, Milanese, Bailey

Bookings: Gallen, Rehman

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