City Ground, Saturday 3.00pm
He is likely to replace striker Dougie Freedman, despite scoring in last weekend's 2-2 draw at home to Reading.
On-loan centre-back Mark Hudson is suspended after his red card against Gillingham, so Mikele Leigertwood signed from Wimbledon last month, will make his first start.
Forest have a host of injury problems. Goalkeeper Barry Roche will keep his place in the side in place of Darren Ward, who has a damaged spinal disc.
Danny Sonner has a toe injury, while Marlon King starts a three-match suspension. Michael Dawson (back from suspension), Gareth Williams (back) and Nick Barmby (hamstring) all return.
Position | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Points |
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20th | 35 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 38 |
Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against |
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5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against |
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25 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 22 | 51 |
Date | Type | Home Team | Score | Away Team | |
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13/12/2003 | League | Crystal Palace | 1 - 0 | Nottm Forest | |
08/02/2003 | League | Nottm Forest | 2 - 1 | Crystal Palace | |
09/11/2002 | League | Crystal Palace | 0 - 0 | Nottm Forest | |
20/12/2001 | League | Crystal Palace | 1 - 1 | Nottm Forest | |
25/08/2001 | League | Nottm Forest | 4 - 2 | Crystal Palace |
Nicky Barmby
Andy Reid - 11 goals
Wes Morgan - 4 1
Gareth Taylor - 27/09/95 - 07/03/96
Having been (in my eyes) wrongly exiled from a plummeting Leeds United team ex-England international Barmby has slotted perfectly into the Forest setup. In his 3 games on loan thus far he has created a number of chances and managed to put one in the net against Gillingham last week. He is a very quick, agile player who has a great footballing brain. He thinks ahead and when he gets it right it usually means curtains for the defence of the opposing team. In this case he will be looking to play ball through to either ex-Palace ace Gareth Taylor or Andy Reid who is Forest's top scorer now Marlon Harewood has left, so he is a massive threat. Lets just be thankful David Johnson isn't quite fit enough for this match like he almost was. We might have had a little problem with him.
Palace 1-0 Nottm Forest
Saturday December 13 2003
Palace: Myhre, Smith (Symons, 88), Popovic, Edwards, Borrowdale, Butterfield, Riihilahti, Hughes, Gray, Johnson (Freedman, 72), Routledge
Subs not used: Berthelin, Watson, Black
Goal: Johnson 12
Nottm Forest: Ward, Thompson, Walker, Morgan (sent off 71), Robertson (Doig, 25), Sonner (Westcarr, 81), Bopp, Williams, Reid, King, Jess (Gunnarsson, 72)
Subs not used: Roche, Gardner
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