Hoping this could be true & if it is, Olise & JRS both being fit for the matchday squad will be a welcome fillip, still we'll know come 13.30 in the pre-match presser . . . [Link]

This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.

It's not going to be pretty. Given the XI we'll likely put out, we'd do well to keep it to a narrow defeat. A point would be a monumental result.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

One tiny spark of hope is that Walker is out. He often saves them with his pace when teams break. Another thing is that sometimes teams struggle to get going with the lunchtime kick-offs. And finally, if somehow we keep them to within one goal of us we will actually have a quality option from the bench for the last 15-20 minutes in Olise.

Glasner made his mark in Germany after a shaky start with a win against Bayern...could this be his time to make a statement? Palace absorb unbelievable pressure, everything goes our way, as City desperately push for the winner we break away in the 90th minute... Eze to Olise to JPM. 1-0 Palace.

I’d keep Olise for the West Ham & Newcastle games

Last time we were in dreadful form, wracked with injuries and traveled to City without a hope in Hell.
We drew 2 2.
City hate playing Palace. Pep even (jokingly) admitted as much a year or so ago.
Plus, Palace are renowned for pulling something out the bag when not even the most deluded Palace fan thinks its possible.
I'm going to say 1-1 and I'd be ecstatic with that.

The only way he would not come on is if, by some supernatural fluke, we are 1-0 up with 15 mins to play.