Arsenal v Palace

Emirates Stadium, Sunday 4.00pm

Damien Delaney

Team news

Crystal Palace defender Damien Delaney will serve a one-game suspension after picking up five bookings. Martin Kelly could move into the centre-half position if James Tomkins (groin) is not yet ready.

He will be assessed late on, along with midfielders James McArthur and Joe Ledley.

Pape Souare (leg), Steve Mandanda (knee), on-loan striker Loic Remy (calf), Connor Wickham (knee) and Bakary Sako (groin) are all out.

Arsenal winger Theo Walcott (calf) is set to miss out, along with Kieran Gibbs and Danny Welbeck (both knee). Shkodran Mustafi is back after a hamstring injury.

Will Sam Allardyce pick up his first win as Crystal Palace manager? Take a look at the latest betting odds at 10bet.

Arsenal (from): Cech, Ospina, Bellerin, Jenkinson, Holding, Gabriel, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Mustafi, Monreal, Elneny, Coquelin, Xhaka, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ozil, Reine-Adelaide, Walcott, Iwobi, Sanchez, Giroud, Welbeck.

Palace (from): Hennessey, Speroni, Ward, Dann, Tomkins, Kelly, Fryers, Lee, Ledley, Phillips, Winter, Husin, McArthur, Townsend, Boateng, Zaha, Cabaye, Mutch, Puncheon, Benteke, Campbell, Flamini.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"The ambition lies with us first and foremost, making sure we are safe this year, then the ambition lies with not just me but the chairman and the owners about where we want to go.

"When you lay that down in business plan terms then I find out just how far we can go.

"For me, the club has got some ambition. It is not just about survival this year it is about the ambition the chairman talked about where the club wants to go and it wants to develop and invest in all areas and that is quite attractive to me. It wasn't just about survival.

"I say if you are going to invest then I think this club can grow to that. So that hopefully that becomes something we can talk about.

"But at the moment the ambition is making sure the club is safe and then seeing how far up the table we can get."

Arsene Wenger

"[Allardyce] is an example to follow as he can give hope to other English managers to get a chance in the Premier League. They can do it with their club, come up and be successful, of course. You want the right mixture.

"How did my relationship with him [Allardyce] change? Slowly. Slowly. There is no obvious reason. Everybody was happy to get a result over me, I can understand that.

"You have to analyse the Premier League a bit regionally at the time. Before you had Bolton, Manchester up there and it was a little...

"I always was just focused, I never had any problem with that. Over 20 years it has changed. I was isolated as a foreign manager at the start. It’s not the case any more."

Arsenal - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
4th	18	11	4	3	37

Full league table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
17/04/2016	League	Arsenal	1 - 1	Crystal Palace
16/08/2015	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 2	Arsenal
21/02/2015	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 2	Arsenal
16/08/2014	League	Arsenal	2 - 1	Crystal Palace
02/02/2014	League	Arsenal	2 - 0	Crystal Palace

All time results

Last meeting

Arsenal 1-1 Palace

Sunday April 17 2016

Arsenal: Cech, Gabriel, Monreal, Koscielny, Bellerin, Elneny (Walcott, 84), Sanchez, Ozil, Coquelin, Iwobi (Giroud, 75), Welbeck (Ramsey, 75)

Goals: Sanchez (45)

Subs not used: Campbell, Mertesacker, Chambers, Ospina

Bookings: Ledley

Palace: Hennessey, Dann, Delaney, Ward, Souare, Puncheon (Zaha, 75), Bolasie, Cabaye, Wickham (Adebayor, 64), Jedinak (Sako, 45), Ledley

Subs not used: Lee, Mariappa, Kelly, Speroni

Goals: Bolasie (81)