Palace v Leicester City

Selhurst Park, Saturday 3.00pm

Selhurst Park (Photo: Andy Roberts)

Team news

Crystal Palace left-back Patrick van Aanholt is available after overcoming his ankle injury and he could come in for Jeffrey Schlupp.

Scott Dann (knee), James Tomkins (calf), Fraizer Campbell (leg) and Loic Remy are still out injured.

Leicester skipper Wes Morgan is out with a back injury, along with Nampalys Mendy (ankle). Foxes manager Craig Shakespeare could decide to rest some players ahead of the club's big Champions League tie with Atletico Madrid next midweek.

Palace: Hennessey, Mandanda, Speroni, Ward, Kelly, Delaney, Sakho, Fryers, McArthur, Milivojevic, Ledley, Cabaye, Puncheon, Townsend, Kaikai, Zaha, Sako, Schlupp, Van Aanholt, Lee, Benteke.

Leicester (from): Schmeichel, Hamer, Zieler, Simpson, Huth, Benalouane, Wasilewski, Fuchs, Chilwell, King, Amartey, Drinkwater, Ndidi, Gray, Mahrez, Albrighton, Kapustka, Musa, Okazaki, Vardy, Ulloa, Slimani.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"When he [Craig Shakespeare] got the job after Claudio Ranieri left I rang him and welcomed him to the mad house of management. Because that’s what it is, its mad, mad, mad, and you have to be mad to do it. My life has been bonkers for the last year or so.

"I’ve gone from Sunderland and plotting to make them better, to the England job which I never thought would come my way again, to chairman Steve Parish asking me to come and do a job at Palace, to where we are now. Never mind my autobiography, the last 18 month would have made a hell of a book.

"My wife thinks I’m mad absolutely that I can’t leave it alone. But she has been the backbone of my career when I’ve put myself through all the trials and tribulations. Then you get results like we did against Chelsea and Arsenal and you realise why you do it."

Craig Shakespeare

"Having worked with Sam in a very short space of time his record there is for all to see. He's never been relegated from the Premier League. Having seen him work at close quarters, how diligent he is on the opposition it doesn't surprise me.

"I'm thinking we need to be competitive against a really competitive Palace team. I'm thinking we still need the points, as I always do, and I'm thinking it'll be a really tough challenge.

"I haven't seen the players yet this morning. I need to assess them all. We only had a light training session yesterday, so I really need to see what the injury situation is."

Leicester City - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
11th	31	10	6	15	36

Full league table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
22/10/2016	League	Leicester City	3 - 1	Crystal Palace
19/03/2016	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 1	Leicester City
24/10/2015	League	Leicester City	1 - 0	Crystal Palace
07/02/2015	League	Leicester City	0 - 1	Crystal Palace
27/09/2014	League	Crystal Palace	2 - 0	Leicester City

All time results

Last meeting

Leicester City 3-1 Palace

Saturday October 22 2016

Leicester City: Schmeichel, Morgan, Huth, Simpson, Fuchs, Drinkwater, Musa (Gray, 81), King (Amartey, 87), Mahrez, Slimani (Vardy, 75), Okazaki

Subs not used: Albrighton, Schlupp, Zieler, Ulloa

Goals: Musa (42), Okazaki (63), Fuchs (80)

Palace: Mandanda, Ward, Tomkins, Delaney, Kelly (Fryers, 77), Cabaye, Townsend (Campbell, 72), Zaha, Ledley (Lee, 72), McArthur, Benteke

Subs not used: Flamini, Hennessey, Wickham, Sako

Goals: Cabaye (85)