Palace v Sheffield Wednesday

Selhurst Park, Tuesday 8.00pm

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Team news

Crystal Palace's on loan forward Freddie Sears is likely to miss out again with the ankle injury suffered against Scunthorpe two games ago still troubling him.

Striker Stern John has had the cast removed from his elbow after dislocating it on the opening day of the season but is still two to three weeks off full fitness.

Wednesday forward Marcus Tudgay should be passed fit to play after missing Saturday's win over Cardiff with a neck injury. In-form Dutch star Etienne Esajas is likely to play in stead of Jermaine Johnson on the right wing.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"The Wednesday camp will be bouyed by their result against Cardiff and I know that it is always a good game against Sheffield Wednesday as Brian (Laws) believes in his teams playing good football.

"For obvious reasons, I have some great memories of playing Wednesday in the Steel City derbies but it is a long trek down to Selhurst for their fans, but they will be looking forward to it after seeing their side get such a good result."

Sheffield Wednesday - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
12th	9	3	3	3	12

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Sheffield Wednesday - current form

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
6	3	1	2	14	9

Full form table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
21/02/2009	League	Sheffield Wednesday	2 - 0	Crystal Palace
01/11/2008	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 1	Sheffield Wednesday
22/03/2008	League	Sheffield Wednesday	2 - 2	Crystal Palace
15/12/2007	League	Crystal Palace	2 - 1	Sheffield Wednesday
31/03/2007	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 2	Sheffield Wednesday

All time results

Sheffield Wednesday's top scorer

Marcus Tudgay - 5 goals

Sheffield Wednesday's bad boy

Francis Jeffers - 0 1

Ref watch

T M Kettle

Last meeting

Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 Palace

Saturday February 21 2009

Sheffield Wednesday: Grant, Simek, Beevers, Hinds, Spurr, Johnson (O'Connor, 89), McAllister, Potter, Gray (Clarke, 65), Jeffers (Small, 78), Tudgay

Subs not used: O'Donnell, Boden

Goals: McAllister 80, Clarke 90

Bookings: Jeffers, Johnson

Palace: Speroni, Hill, Jose Fonte, Davis (Lawrence, 56), Clyne, Scannell, Derry (Butterfield, 81), Danns, Oster, Lee, Moses (Kuqi, 69)

Subs not used: Carle, Rui Fonte

Bookings: Clyne