Nottm Forest v Palace

City Ground, Tuesday 7.45pm

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Team news

Crystal Palace defender Nathaniel Clyne faces a late fitness test after sitting out Saturday's draw at Blackpool with a groin injury.

Claude Davis serves the second match of his three-game ban, while midfielder Neil Danns is set to start despite a back problem.

Nottingham Forest's James Perch is out with an ankle injury sustained against Peterborough on Saturday. On-loan winger George Boyd returns to the Forest squad after being unable to play against parent club Peterborough.

Captain Paul McKenna (ankle), defenders Julian Bennett (knee) and Joel Lynch (thigh) and forward Garath McCleary (knee) are doubtful of playing.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"We are hopeful we can stay up. No one said it was going to be an easy one but we have to keep hanging in there.

"I thought we played extremely well in the first half [against Blackpool] and once again there were some great defensive displays but unfortunately the goal so early in the second half was hard to swallow for us."

Billy Davies

"We want to go out there and win every single match but Palace will have their own reasons for wanting to win the game. We've got to make sure that we're more determined than other teams."

Nottm Forest - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
3rd	38	19	10	9	67

Full league table

Nottm Forest - current form

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
6	3	0	3	6	8

Full form table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
24/10/2009	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 1	Nottm Forest
28/10/2008	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 2	Nottm Forest
04/10/2008	League	Nottm Forest	0 - 2	Crystal Palace
13/03/2004	League	Nottm Forest	3 - 2	Crystal Palace
13/12/2003	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 0	Nottm Forest

All time results

Nottm Forest's top scorer

Dexter Blackstock - 13 goals

Nottm Forest's bad boy

Chris Gunter - 8 0

Palace old boys

Dele Adebola

Ref watch

A Hall

Last meeting

Palace 1-1 Nottm Forest

Saturday October 24 2009

Palace: Speroni, Hill, McCarthy, Butterfield, Fonte, Ertl, Ambrose (Hills, 89), Derry, Danns, Lee (John, 63), Sears (Moses, 34)

Subs not used: Davis, Clyne, N'Diaye, Flahavan

Goals: Ambrose 40

Bookings: Hill, Moses

Nottm Forest: Camp, Morgan, Wilson, Gunter, Cohen, Anderson (McCleary, 48), McKenna, McGugan (Chambers, 68), Tyson (Garner, 81), Adebola, McGoldrick

Subs not used: Smith, Lynch, Perch, Majewski

Goals: McGoldrick 48

Bookings: Gunter