Plymouth Argyle v Palace

Home Park, Tuesday 7.45pm

Story so far

Ian 'soundbite' Holloway has had a year in charge at Home Park but has hardly touched the team.

He brought in a handful of players during his first summer in charge but has done very little this season. In fact he hsn't done anything since May, when he signed a couple of unknowns for a total of £475,000.

They finished last season one place above Palace by two points. They will be hoping to sneak into the play-offs, perhaps make a few astute loan signings and remain unbeaten at home.

I say remain unbeaten at home - out of four home games, each have ended as stalemates. Saying that, every other league game (bar one) has ended with Plymouth either winning or losing by a 3-2 scoreline.

Team news

Dougie Freedman is still missing after failing to recover from a hip injury that ruloed him out of Saturday's draw at Burnley.

It means Clinton Morrison will probably have to be content with a bench appearance with Taylor going for Paul Dickov and James Scowcroft in attack.

Midfielders Mark Kennedy (thigh) and Paul Ifill (hamstring) are also sidelined for the Londoners.

Plymouth strikers Barry Hayles, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, Rory Fallon and Nick Chadwick are all vying for a place up front.

Larrys Mabiala is back in the Argyle squad, but Paul Wotton's knee injury makes him very doubtful.

Quotes

Plymouth goalkeeper Luke McCormick said: "I expect to see a lively Plymouth Argyle tonight, not the one we saw in the first half on Saturday.

"When we are at our best, we are an up-and-at-you, in your face type of team. Palace have got a bit of pressure on them to get results because they haven't started particularly well, so it's a game we should relish.

"It's another opportunity to go out and get this first home win that we have been after."

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Plymouth Argyle - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
13th	8	2	4	2	10

Full league table

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Plymouth Argyle - current form

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
5	1	2	2	7	7

Full form table

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Our away record v Plymouth Argyle

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
22	7	2	13	23	51

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Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
17/03/2007	League	Plymouth Argyle	1 - 0	Crystal Palace
28/10/2006	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 1	Plymouth Argyle
17/12/2005	League	Plymouth Argyle	2 - 0	Crystal Palace
20/08/2005	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 0	Plymouth Argyle
10/09/2002	League Cup	Crystal Palace	2 - 1	Plymouth Argyle

All time results

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One to watch

Sylvan Ebanks-Blake

Sylvan Ebanks-Blake was Holloway's first signing last summer. He quickly established himself as Plymouth's top scorer and will be looking to improve on his tally of ten from last season.

Ebanks-Blake has pace, agression and a decent enough finish to trouble static, error prone defences and may well creap or force his way behind our back line.

Ref watch

R L Shoebridge

Last meeting

Plymouth Argyle 1-0 Palace

Saturday March 17 2007

Plymouth Argyle: McCormick, Connolly, Seip, Doumbe, Sawyer, Gosling (Hodges, 83), Norris, Nalis, Sinclair, Ebanks-Blake (Fallon, 68), Hayles

Subs not used: Gallen, Summerfield, Djordjic

Goals: Sinclair 48

Palace: Kiraly, Butterfield, Hudson, Cort, Borrowdale, Soares (Kuqi, 71), Watson, Fletcher, Hughes (Freedman, 59), Scowcroft, Morrison (Grabban, 71)

Subs not used: Speroni, Kennedy

Bookings: Borrowdale

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