Palace v Derby County

Selhurst Park, Saturday 3.00pm

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Team news

Palace's on loan striker Freddie Sears is sidelined with an ankle injury while defender Claude Davis has hamstring trouble.

Irish defender Paddy McCarthy is available for selection after serving his ban for getting red carded at Peterborough.

James Vaughan will make his Derby bow after signing from Everton on loan. Steven Davies is still missing, Chris Porter and Giles Barnes are long-term injury victims.

Quotes

Derby winger Gary Teale

"We will be looking for a more solid performance at Palace. Maybe we will go with two banks of four and sit in, trying to hit them on the break, shore things up and get a clean sheet. That's probably the most important thing at the moment.

"When we drew 0-0 at Blackpool, we were more solid, having come off a 3-2 defeat at Scunthorpe, so it is probably going to be another one of those performances.

"The fact that Palace lost 4-0 at home in their last game probably means they will be looking to shore things up too, so it's probably not going to be a classic!

"But we need to get back to keeping clean sheets. If you do that, it is something to build on and you can start nicking games 1-0."

Derby County - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
15th	7	2	1	4	7

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Derby County - current form

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
6	1	1	4	8	11

Full form table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
18/04/2009	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 0	Derby County
06/12/2008	League	Derby County	1 - 2	Crystal Palace
29/04/2007	League	Crystal Palace	2 - 0	Derby County
16/12/2006	League	Derby County	1 - 0	Crystal Palace
25/03/2006	League	Derby County	2 - 1	Crystal Palace

All time results

Derby County's top scorer

Miles Addison, Gary Teale - 2 goals

Derby County's bad boy

Stephen Pearson, Jake Buxton - 2 0

Palace old boys

Paul Dickov

Ref watch

M Oliver

Last meeting

Palace 1-0 Derby County

Saturday April 18 2009

Palace: Speroni, Clyne, Lawrence, McCarthy, Hill, Moses (sent off 60), Carle, Ertl, Rui Fonte (Comley, 66), Kuqi, Stokes

Subs not used: Jose Fonte, Scowcroft, Hills, Cadogan

Goals: Kuqi 63

Bookings: Carle, Lawrence, Moses

Derby County: Bywater, Connolly, Todd, Albrechtsen, Nyatanga, Sterjovski (Villa, 76), Savage, Pearson (Eustace, 72), Teale, Commons (Bannan, 85), Hulse

Subs not used: Price, Beardsley

Bookings: Sterjovski