Palace v Preston North End

Selhurst Park, Saturday 3.00pm

Crystal Palace

Team news

Forward Anthony Stokes should make his first start in a Palace shirt after joining from Sunderland on loan.

Nick Carle sits the match out through suspension but centre back Claude Davis hopes to have shaken off his hamstring injury to play. Paddy McCarthy is still recovering from his shoulder operation.

Preston defender Youl Mawene should return after overcoming his hamstring problem. Jon Parkin and Paul McKenna are suspended and Richard Chaplow is a doubt due to a hamstring strain.

Quotes

Preston skipper Paul McKenna

"It will be a tough test, Palace haven't been great of late but they've brought in a couple of players on loan and they have had a strong squad for a number of seasons.

"Every game is a tough game, we went to Forest and put in our best away performance for some time and we came away with nothing. That proved that if you take your eye of the ball for a minute you get punished in this league. It will be no different down there and the lads need to be on their game."

Preston North End - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
6th	36	16	8	12	56

Full league table

Preston North End - current form

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
6	2	2	2	7	8

Full form table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
16/08/2008	League	Preston North End	2 - 0	Crystal Palace
01/03/2008	League	Preston North End	0 - 1	Crystal Palace
27/11/2007	League	Crystal Palace	2 - 1	Preston North End
07/04/2007	League	Crystal Palace	3 - 0	Preston North End
27/01/2007	FA Cup	Crystal Palace	0 - 2	Preston North End

All time results

Preston North End's top scorer

Neil Mellor - 9 goals

Preston North End's bad boy

Jon Parkin - 5 0

Ref watch

R J Booth

Last meeting

Preston North End 2-0 Palace

Saturday August 16 2008

Preston North End: Lonergan, Jones, Mawene, St. Ledger, Davidson (73 Hart), Whaley, McKenna, Sedgwick, Chaplow, Mellor, Nicholson

Subs Not Used: Neal, Hawley, Carter, Wallace

Goals: Nicholson 58, Chaplow 90

Palace: Speroni, Butterfield, McCarthy, Lawrence, Hill, Oster (83 Ifill), Soares, Derry, Carle (74 Andrew), Hills (66 Moses), Scowcroft

Subs Not Used: Fonte, Ertl

Bookings: Hill, Hills