Southampton v Palace

St Mary's Stadium, Monday 3.00pm

Shaun Derry

Team news

Crystal Palace will have to make do without the services of skipper Shaun Derry after the midfielder picked up a foot injury in Saturday's loss to Cardiff.

Derry is due to undergo surgery on a shoulder problem on Wednesday so will have played his last game this season. Youngster James Comley or Neil Danns - if he has recovered from his groin injury - are ready to replace him.

Southampton midfielder Simon Gillett's knee injury forces him out for the remainder of the season and the Saints will also be missing injured players Michael Svensson (Achilles), centre-back Wayne Thomas (knee), midfielder Anthony Pulis (foot) and striker Jamie White (ankle).

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"Shaun Derry got a nasty kick on his instep [against Cardiff on Saturday]. Some studs caught him. I'll be very surprised if he plays after looking at his foot and there isn't really any point if he's having the operation on Wednesday."

Mark Wotte

"We need everyone to back us and support us. I think that with the fans behind us we will go for the three points and attack Crystal Palace wherever we can and make sure that we get ourselves back into the confidence zone and pick up the three points.

"We have to really start thinking for each game that it might be the last game of the season. We know we need to win and the players all want to win on Monday."

Southampton - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
23rd	42	9	14	19	41

Full league table

Southampton - current form

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
6	0	4	2	6	10

Full form table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
08/12/2008	League	Crystal Palace	3 - 0	Southampton
02/02/2008	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 1	Southampton
11/08/2007	League	Southampton	1 - 4	Crystal Palace
26/12/2006	League	Southampton	1 - 1	Crystal Palace
12/09/2006	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 2	Southampton

All time results

Southampton's top scorer

David McGoldrick - 12 goals

Southampton's bad boy

Lloyd James - 8 0

Palace old boys

None

Ref watch

Michael Russell

Last meeting

Palace 3-0 Southampton

Monday December 08 2008

Palace: Speroni, Clyne, McCarthy, Fonte, Hill, Carle, Watson (Derry 30), Oster (Butterfield 48), Beattie, Kuqi, Scannell (Ifill 66)

Subs Not Used: Lee, Moses

Goals: Kuqi 9, Beattie 15, Ifill 75

Booked: Hill

Southampton: Davis, James, Perry, Pearce (Wotton 46), Skacel, Surman, Lallana, Cork, Wright-Phillips (Gasmi 81), McGoldrick, Robertson (Mills 69)

Subs Not Used: Bialkowski, Paterson

Booked: Perry