Leicester City v Palace

Walkers Stadium, Saturday 3.00pm

Nationwide Division One

Team news

Trevor Francis is unlikely to make any wholesale changes to the line up which held Liverpool to a 0-0 draw last Sunday.

This means captain Curtis Fleming will keep his place in the starting XI having returned from a long lay off in the previous weekend’s FA Cup game.

Striker Dougie Freedman has recovered from his hernia operation and having played for the reserves in midweek he is likely to start from the bench with fellow forward Ade Akinbiyi.

Second placed Leicester have won just one of their last four games including recent defeats against Gillingham and Wolves.

James Scrowcoft’s recent return from injury following a torn stomach muscle means he will continue up front with Paul Dickov.

Winger Andrew Impey is out for about a month having suffered a groin injury in training.

Fellow midfielder Billy McKinlay will also miss the game against the Eagles as he is currently out with a foot injury.

Leicester City - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
2nd	29	17	7	5	58

Full league table

Leicester City - current form

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

Full form table

Our away record v Leicester City

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
21	5	9	7	31	26

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
27/08/2002	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 0	Leicester City
01/11/2000	League Cup	Leicester City	0 - 3	Crystal Palace
22/09/1999	League Cup	Leicester City	4 - 2	Crystal Palace
14/09/1999	League Cup	Crystal Palace	3 - 3	Leicester City
11/04/1998	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 3	Leicester City

All time results

One to watch

Muzzy Izzet

Leicester City's top scorer

Paul Dickov - 14 goals

Leicester City's bad boy

Muzzy Izzet & Frank Sinclair - 12 1

Palace old boys

None

Despite transfer talk that has engulfed him all season, Izzet remains Leicester's most creative player. Palace will have to keep a close watch on the ex-Chelsea man if they want to keep another clean sheet on saturday.

Probable line-up

Johnson

Adebola

Black

Derry

Butterfield

Gray

Symons

Mullins

Popovic

Fleming

Kolinko

Last meeting

Palace 0-0 Leicester City

Tuesday August 27 2002

Palace: Clarke, Fleming, Mullins, Popovic, Granville, Butterfield (Adebola 62), Derry (Riihilahti 89), Thomson (Routledge 86), Powell, Johnson, Freedman.

Subs not used: Kolinko, Austin.

Booking: Powell.

Leicester City: Walker, Impey, Taggart, Elliott, Rogers, Stewart (Oakes 76), Lewis, McKinlay, Scowcroft, Benjamin, Dickov (Heath 86)

Subs not used: Price, Stevenson, Williamson.

Booking: Taggart. Sent off: Taggart 85.