Peterborough United v Palace

London Road, Saturday 3.00pm

London Road

Team news

Ian Holloway has no new injury worries ahead of the clash at London Road.

He is likely to stick with the side that have clocked up two victories in two matches.

Jon Williams is out for 3 weeks with a hamstring sustained whilst in action for the development side on Monday.

Paddy McCarthy is still sidelined with a groin problem.

For Peterborough Grant McCann is an injury doubt with a groin problem picked up in the 1-0 defeat against Brighton on Tuesday.

Posh hope striker Emile Sinclair (thigh) will be available, but Tommy Rowe and Kgosi Ntlhe (both ankle) remain sidelined.

Quotes

Peterborough wing-back Joe Newell

[Speaking about Wilfried Zaha]: "Yeah, he is a very exciting player and it will be a good test for myself and for the team, but we are concentrating on ourselves and how we can cause them problems.

"It is a big game, there should be a decent atmosphere and we are all looking forward to it.

"We were all devastated to lose in the manner that we did on Tuesday night at Brighton, but as the manager said to us in the dressing room afterwards, there is no time to be hungover from it, we have back to back home games and we need to pick up the points."

Peterborough United - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
22nd	15	4	0	11	12

Full league table

Peterborough United - current form

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
8	4	0	4	12	7

Full form table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
03/03/2012	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 0	Peterborough United
06/08/2011	League	Peterborough United	2 - 1	Crystal Palace
30/01/2010	League	Crystal Palace	2 - 0	Peterborough United
31/08/2009	League	Peterborough United	1 - 1	Crystal Palace
29/03/1994	League	Peterborough United	1 - 1	Crystal Palace

All time results

One to watch

George Boyd

Peterborough United's top scorer

George Boyd - 6 goals

Peterborough United's bad boy

Grant Mccann - 4 0

Palace fan Boyd will be attempting to halt his supported side's promotion bid.

Ref watch

Gary Sutton from Lincoln has refereed 12 games so far this season, and dished out 36 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Out of those 12 games he's only refereed three Championship games, with the remainder in League One, Two and Cup matches.

Last meeting

Palace 1-0 Peterborough United

Saturday March 03 2012

Palace: Speroni, Gardner, McCarthy, McShane, Ambrose (Moxey, 80), Garvan, Jedinak, Parr, Easter (Murray, 71), Martin, Zaha

Subs not used: Price, Appiah, O'Keefe

Goals: Jedinak (76)

Bookings: Martin

Peterborough United: Jones, Zakuani, Little, Alcock, Briggs, Rowe, McCann, Kearns (Ball, 87), Boyd, Taylor (Sinclair, 60), Barnett

Subs not used: Lewis, Newell, Brisley

Bookings: McCann, Zakuani