Palace v Millwall

Selhurst Park, Saturday 3.00pm

Andy Johnson

Team news

Johnson has not started for 13 games after getting a knee injury in Palace's defeat at Reading.

But he came off the bench at Luton last Saturday and played 45 minutes in Wednesday's Carling Cup tie at Middlesborough.

Manager Iain Dowie must decided whether to pick Clinton Morrison or Dougie Freedman alongside him in attack.

Mikele Leigertwood returned from injury at Boro and could land a place in the first eleven.

Loan defenders Zak Whitbread and Ady Williams are set to return for Millwall after being cup-tied in midweek, along with ex-Palace frontman Bruce Dyer.

Striker Barry Hayles serves a one-match ban, while loan defender Phil Ifill and Palace fan striker Carl Asaba are doubtful. Another ex-Palace player, Jamie Vincent, should feature at left-back.

In Depth The Millwall Rivalry

Millwall - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
24th	21	3	7	11	16

Full league table

Millwall - current form

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
5	1	1	3	5	8

Full form table

Our home record v Millwall

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
39	15	12	12	55	51

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
26/12/2003	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 1	Millwall
30/08/2003	League	Millwall	1 - 1	Crystal Palace
21/04/2003	League	Millwall	3 - 2	Crystal Palace
07/12/2002	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 0	Millwall
26/12/2001	League	Millwall	3 - 0	Crystal Palace

All time results

One to watch

Bruce Dyer

Millwall's top scorer

Barry Hayles - 4 goals

Millwall's bad boy

Jody Morris - 5 2

Palace old boys

Jamie Vincent, Bruce Dyer

Dyer is one to watch as the ex-Palace factor could play a major part (but we’ll be fine, he’ll probably be offside most of the time).

On-loan keeper Lenny Pidgeley could provide a reasonably stern rearguard for the Bermondsey pussycats, the Chelsea keeper has been snapped up on a week long emergency loan due to Millwall’s severe shortage of playing staff.

Really can’t say anything nice about Millwall, so I’ll sign off…….so sit back and watch Millwall run from the Palace :-D

Probable line-up

	Morrison	Johnson
Hughes	Watson	Soares	McAnuff
Borrowdale	Ward	Hall	Boyce
Kiraly

Last meeting

Palace 0-1 Millwall

Friday December 26 2003

Palace: Myhre, Butterfield, Symons, Popovic, Borrowdale (Freedman, 84), Routledge, Riihilahti (Black, 75), Hughes, Gray, Johnson, Shipperley

Subs not used: Fleming, Derry, Berthelin

Millwall: Warner, Roberts, Lawrence, Ward, Livermore, Sweeney (Fofana, 68), Elliott, Wise, Chadwick (Peeters, 77), Harris (Braniff, 60), Cahill

Subs not used Nethercott, Gueret

Bookings: Elliott, Sweeney, Warner

Goal: Harris 18