Watford v Palace

Vicarage Road, Saturday 3.00pm

Team news

Crystal Palace midfielder Nick Carle is suspended for this match after his red card against Birmingham City in midweek.

The Eagles have seen their squad hit by a string of hamstring injuries. Winger Victor Moses, defender Claude Davis, midfielder Shaun Derry and winger Paul Ifill are all sidelined with the problem.

Watford keeper Mart Poom sits the match out with a shoulder problem, while Gareth Williams has a knee injury.

Quotes

Ian Holloway

"They are flying at the minute and are probably the bookies favourite for the match. We have to compete with them and have to play better than we did last month. We deserved to lose that game."

Brendan Rodgers

"We have got Crystal Palace in our next home game where we have been brilliant at home with the supporters and then Plymouth in the week.

"So in the next couple of weeks we have great possibilities and from being in the bottom three we could be flying upwards and that was always the aim.

"The crowd [at Vicarage Road] have responded fantastically well, the staff have been great so the project between now and the end of the season is to keep moving up."

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Watford - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
18th	32	10	6	16	36

Full league table

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Watford - current form

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
6	3	0	3	8	9

Full form table

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Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
24/01/2009	FA Cup	Watford	4 - 3	Crystal Palace
09/08/2008	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 0	Watford
19/04/2008	League	Watford	0 - 2	Crystal Palace
05/01/2008	FA Cup	Watford	2 - 0	Crystal Palace
29/10/2007	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 2	Watford

All time results

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One to watch

Jobi McAnuff

The former Eagles winger was instrumental in Watford's FA Cup victory over Palace last month and will be keen to impress against his old side again.

Ref watch

G K Hegley

Last meeting

Watford 2-2 Palace

Friday February 08 2013

Watford: Almunia, Doyley, Hall, Pudil, Cassetti, Chalobah (Battocchio, 89), Hoban, Abdi, Hogg, Deeney, Vydra (Forestieri, 65)

Subs not used: Murray, Yeates, Bond, Eustace, Geijo

Goals: Abdi (6), Chalobah (14)

Bookings: Hall, Pudil, Cassetti, Chalobah, Deeney

Palace: Speroni, Ramage, Moxey, Delaney, Dikgacoi, Bolasie (Phillips, 54), Marrow (Williams, 46), Richards, Dobbie (Butterfield, 85), Murray, Zaha

Subs not used: Price, O'Keefe, Wilbraham, Parr

Goals: Ramage (66), Phillips (70)

Bookings: Marrow, Murray

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