Bristol City v Palace

Ashton Gate, Tuesday 7.45pm

Dougie Freedman

Team news

Crystal Palace manager Dougie Freedman has an almost injury free squad at his disposal. Left-back Dean Moxey is available after recovering from his knee problem. Midfielder Jonathan Williams is the only absentee as he recovers from a broken leg sustained at Cardiff in November.

Bristol City midfielder Kalifa Cisse is sidelined due to a a knee injury. Centre-back Louis Carey will also sit the game out due to a calf problem and midfielder Neil Kilkenny )hamstring) is a doubt. James Wilson and Yannick Bolasie are both available after completing bans.

Quotes

Derek McInnes

"We have way too many people depending upon us not to take responsibility for things ourselves. We should not have to be worrying about other results and looking over our shoulders at the teams below us in the league.

"We have the quality and the strength to get out of trouble without needing other results to go our way.

"I've spoken to the players about it and insisted it is not about individual performances, selection or tactics – from here-on in it is all about giving every bit of effort towards digging out the wins we need to climb the table. There are enough games left, we are at home against Palace and everyone should be positive."

Paddy McCarthy
"Everybody is going to give 100 per cent to try and get us into the play-offs and we can still reach that. It’s proven that if you can have a good week it gets you right back in the mix. When the games start ticking down you have got to be in there or thereabouts in the final 10 matches - then you are looking at 10 cup finals."

Bristol City - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
21st	30	8	6	16	30

Full league table

Bristol City - current form

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
6	2	0	4	3	10

Full form table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
18/10/2011	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 0	Bristol City
22/01/2011	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 0	Bristol City
28/12/2010	League	Bristol City	1 - 1	Crystal Palace
09/03/2010	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 1	Bristol City
15/08/2009	League	Bristol City	1 - 0	Crystal Palace

All time results

Last meeting

Palace 1-0 Bristol City

Tuesday October 18 2011

Palace: Speroni, Gardner, Wright, McCarthy, Ramage (Parr, 46), Clyne, Ambrose (Williams, 57), Jedinak, Murray, Scannell (Dikgacoi, 82), Zaha

Goals: Murray (pen 81)

Bristol City: James, Nyatanga, Stewart, McGivern, Campbell-Ryce, Elliott, Kilkenny, Skuse, Cisse (Taylor, 82), Adomah, Maynard (Pitman, 77)

Bookings: Kilkenny, Maynard