Stoke City v Palace

Britannia Stadium, Saturday 3.00pm

Joe Ledley

Team news

Crystal Palace captain Mile Jedinak will face a late fitness test after recovering from his ankle injury, however fellow midfielder Joe Ledley is now fully fit. Bakary Sako and Dwight Gayle are both still out with hamstring trouble.

Stoke's Xherdan Shaqiri will be assessed on his hamstring injury, along with Geoff Cameron and Stephen Ireland plus Phil Bardsley (back). Keeper Shay Given and strikers Peter Odemwingie, Marc Muniesa and Peter Crouch (all hamstring) are all still missing.

Stoke (from): Butland, Haugaard, Shawcross, Wollscheid, Wilson, Johnson, Pieters, Bardsley, Whelan, Adam, Ireland, Sidwell, Van Ginkel, Arnautovic, Bojan, Shaqiri, Afellay, Walters, Joselu, Diouf.

Palace (from): Hennessey, Speroni, Dann, Delaney, Hangeland, Kelly, Souare, Mariappa, Ward, Lee, Cabaye, Ledley, McArthur, McCarthy, Mutch, Puncheon, Bamford, Bolasie, Campbell, Chamakh, Wickham, Zaha.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"I don't think it could have gone much better really. I've thoroughly enjoyed my time here and I've enjoyed working with Steve Parish in particular.

"It's given me more power in the transfer market to try to build the team around the vision that I have and I hope that continues. We just want to really push on in this second half of the season and if we can match the first half, I would be delighted."

Jordon Mutch

"It suits our game playing away from home, especially with the pace we have in the team, and the way we defend our box makes it hard for teams to break us down.

"I know the weather will be a factor but it's just like any other game, and if we set our stall out the way we've been working on all week hopefully we can get the result.

"Stoke have got a great squad and I'm sure they'll do well this season. They've recently come on really strong and will be looking to continue that in the second half of the season.

"From tenth place onwards every team will be looking to reach that Europa League spot and I think it's anyone's for the taking - I just hope come May it'll be us who takes it."

Mark Hughes

"There's no coincidence to their [Palace's] record. With the team and the weapons they have, it lends itself better to playing away.

"They can soak up pressure, which they are very good at, and then they have pace and a real threat going the other way. We need to be vigilant and make sure we don't over-commit. We have to be in the majority and not the minority when they look to break.

"We're now ahead of where we thought we'd be. That's encouraging considering we didn't win any of the first six games."

Stoke City - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
11th	16	6	5	5	23

Full league table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
21/03/2015	League	Stoke City	1 - 2	Crystal Palace
13/12/2014	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 1	Stoke City
18/01/2014	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 0	Stoke City
24/08/2013	League	Stoke City	2 - 1	Crystal Palace
15/01/2013	FA Cup	Stoke City	4 - 1	Crystal Palace

All time results

Last meeting

Stoke City 1-2 Palace

Saturday March 21 2015

Stoke City: Begovic, Cameron, Shawcross, Wilson, Pieters, Adam, N'Zonzi, Diouf, Ireland, Arnautovic, Crouch (Walters, 78)

Subs not used: Bardsley, Whelan, Sidwell, Butland, Teixeira, Wollscheid

Goals: Diouf 14

Bookings: Begovic, Pieters, Adam

Palace: Speroni, Ward, Dann, Delaney, Souaré (Kelly, 70), McArthur, Ledley, Zaha (Gayle, 80), Puncheon, Bolasie, Murray (Ameobi, 86)

Subs not used: Mariappa, Hangeland, Sanogo, Hennessey

Goals: Murray 41 (pen), Zaha 45

Bookings: Souaré, McArthur, Zaha, Gayle