Watford v Palace

Vicarage Road, Sunday 4.00pm

Damien Delaney (Photo: Andy Roberts)

Team news

Crystal Palace defender Damien Delaney (groin) should be fit after getting substituted against Charlton in midweek as a precaution. Midfielder Joe Ledley also featured after overcoming a hamstring strain but is likely to be on the bench. Centre half Scott Dann and forward Connor Wickham are fitness doubts.

Watford midfielder Valon Behrami is suspended, while defender Joel Ekstrand is injured. Summer signings Adlene Guedioura, Steven Berghuis and Nathan Ake are in the squad and available for selection.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"We've got a lot of pace in the team, which makes us dangerous away from home. I don't think anybody had six more difficult [opening] games than us and to take nine points is great. "We're not getting carried away with our ambitions. We think we can challenge for a Europa League spot if we have a good first half of the season."

Quique Sanchez Flores

"We feel confident but we must respect Crystal Palace. They have achieved very good results away from home. Crystal Palace are very quick offensively and have players who are very clever at using space. They will come with a high spirit so if we want to win we will have to play very well."

Watford - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
10th	6	2	3	1	9

Full league table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
27/05/2013	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 0	Watford
08/02/2013	League	Watford	2 - 2	Crystal Palace
18/08/2012	League	Crystal Palace	2 - 3	Watford
18/02/2012	League	Crystal Palace	4 - 0	Watford
15/10/2011	League	Watford	0 - 2	Crystal Palace

All time results

Last meeting

Watford 0-1 Palace

Monday May 27 2013

Watford: Almunia, Doyley, Pudil, Ekstrand, Cassetti, Chalobah (Battocchio, 74), Anya (Forestieri, 86), Abdi, Hogg, Deeney, Vydra (Geijo, 46)

Subs not used: Yeates, Hall, Bond, Briggs

Bookings: Cassetti, Ekstrand, Abdi

Palace: Speroni, Gabbidon, Moxey, Ward, Delaney, Williams (Phillips, 65), Garvan (Moritz, 84), Dikgacoi (O'Keefe, 17), Jedinak, Wilbraham, Zaha

Subs not used: P Ramage, Y Bolasie, L Price, A Richards

Goals: Phillips (pen 105)

Bookings: Ward, Moxey, Jedinak, O'Keefe