Watford v Palace

Vicarage Road, Saturday 3.00pm

The Football League

Team news

Crystal Palace midfielder Nick Carle is suspended for this match after his red card against Birmingham City in midweek.

The Eagles have seen their squad hit by a string of hamstring injuries. Winger Victor Moses, defender Claude Davis, midfielder Shaun Derry and winger Paul Ifill are all sidelined with the problem.

Watford keeper Mart Poom sits the match out with a shoulder problem, while Gareth Williams has a knee injury.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"They are flying at the minute and are probably the bookies favourite for the match. We have to compete with them and have to play better than we did last month. We deserved to lose that game."

Brendan Rodgers

"We have got Crystal Palace in our next home game where we have been brilliant at home with the supporters and then Plymouth in the week.

"So in the next couple of weeks we have great possibilities and from being in the bottom three we could be flying upwards and that was always the aim.

"The crowd [at Vicarage Road] have responded fantastically well, the staff have been great so the project between now and the end of the season is to keep moving up."

Watford - league stats

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Watford - current form

Full form table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
24/01/2009	FA Cup	Watford	4 - 3	Crystal Palace
09/08/2008	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 0	Watford
19/04/2008	League	Watford	0 - 2	Crystal Palace
05/01/2008	FA Cup	Watford	2 - 0	Crystal Palace
29/10/2007	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 2	Watford

All time results

One to watch

Jobi McAnuff

The former Eagles winger was instrumental in Watford's FA Cup victory over Palace last month and will be keen to impress against his old side again.

Ref watch

G K Hegley

Last meeting

Watford 4-3 Palace

Saturday January 24 2009

Watford: Loach, Hoyte (Kiernan, 90), DeMerit, Mariappa, Doyley, Cork, McAnuff, Harley, Jenkins, Rasiak (O'Toole, 77), Hoskins (Bridcutt, 86)

Subs not used: Searle, Sadler, Eustace, Bangura

Goals: DeMerit 17, Cork 27, Hoskins 67, Rasiak 70

Palace: Speroni, Clyne (Butterfield, 76), Lawrence, Fonte, Hill, Derry (Fletcher,75), Danns, Ifill, Oster, Lee (Kuqi, 78), Moses

Subs not used: Carle, Flahavan, Scannell, Hills

Goals: Hill 48, Danns 83, Ifill 90

Bookings: Fonte, Danns, Lee

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