Hoorah, the stubborn old git has finally dropped Townsend and Benteke. Glad that Cahill has gone too. Milo needs to pull his socks up though if we are not to be overrun in Midfield.

We need a fast out ball today to our front players. No fannying around tippy tappying it around at the back letting them get into shape.

Interesting line up. Bats and Ayew looked OK in the last 15 mins on Tuesday.

Just hope Roy uses his subs strategically today rather than throwing a couple on in the last ten minutes and hoping for a miracle when the game has gone against us.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

Any links....

That's how I viewed but like someone else said, could easily convert to 4-2-3-1 with Bats up top and either Wilf or Eze behind with the other back on the left.

Would have preferred Mitchell to PVA but maybe there's a different intent in approach (i.e. Palace playing on the front foot like against United earlier in the season) or Roy has seen something in training from PVA that shows that he's improved on his positional play

and still keep Kouyate after his shock appearance last week...

Eze and Ayew wasted out wide again and two man midfield, or is it one and a half with Luka in there. Is Jimmy injured? We'll miss him

Let's keep the ball this season!