Liverpool v Palace

Anfield, Saturday 3.00pm

Andy Johnson

Team news

Johnson has a hip injury and faces a late fitness test along with defender Fitz Hall (knee) who missed last Saturday's 1-1 draw with Arsenal.

Centre-half Gonzalo Sorondo is out for at least a month after pulling his hamstring in the Arsenal game.

Wayne Routledge also went off injured but has recovered from his neck strain.

Liverpool's Milan Baros will replace striker Neil Mellor after overcoming a hamstring injury and will join Florent Sinama-Pongolle up front.

Liverpool - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
8th	11	5	2	4	17

Full league table

Liverpool - current form

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
5	2	1	2	8	6

Full form table

Our away record v Liverpool

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
13	1	3	9	5	35

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
05/02/2003	FA Cup	Liverpool	0 - 2	Crystal Palace
26/01/2003	FA Cup	Crystal Palace	0 - 0	Liverpool
24/01/2001	League Cup	Liverpool	5 - 0	Crystal Palace
10/01/2001	League Cup	Crystal Palace	2 - 1	Liverpool
13/04/1998	League	Liverpool	2 - 1	Crystal Palace

All time results

One to watch

Luis Garcia

Liverpool's top scorer

Milan Baros - 4 goals

Liverpool's bad boy

Dietmar Hamann - 5 0

Palace old boys

None

Luis Garcia, a summer free transfer from Barcelona has more than impressed since joining the reds.

He has scored 3 goals this season, all from distance so he has a very very mean shot that is usually on target and due to the tactics that we are employing currently i.e. limiting the opposing teams chances to shots from outside the area, he will be a very big threat. Kiraly will ahve to be on his toes.

Watch out for Steven Gerrard, Xabi Alonso and Milan Baros who can all score goals and are all great players.

Last meeting

Liverpool 0-2 Palace

Wednesday February 05 2003

Liverpool: Dudek, Carragher, Henchoz, Hyypia, Riise, Diouf, Murphy (Baros, 67), Hamann, Cheyrou, Owen, Heskey

Subs not used: Arphexad, Diao, Biscan, Traore

Palace: Berthelin, Symons, Powell, Popovic, Butterfield, Mullins, Derry, Gray, Granville (Freedman, 36 (sent off 70)), Adebola, Johnson (Thomson, 88)

Subs not used: Black, Cronin

Booking: Derry

Goals: Gray 55, Henchoz 79 (og)