Palace v Hull City

Selhurst Park, Sunday 12.00pm

James Tomkins

Team news

Sam Allardyce will hand late fitness tests to James Tomkins and Yohan Cabaye (both leg) ahead of the crunch home game against Hull after both look to have recovered from recent injuries.

Joel Ward broke his nose against Manchester City and Andros Townsend has a slight Achilles problem, but both should be passed fit.

Mamadou Sakho (knee) is out for the final two games, while Scott Dann (knee) has an outside chance of a return against Manchester United.

Hull winger Lazar Markovic is out for the rest of the season with an ankle injury sustained last weekend. David Meyler, Ryan Mason, Will Keane and Moses Odubajo are all unavailable for the Tigers. Omar Elabdellaoui (back) is fit again, while Tom Huddlestone is aiming for a return to the line-up.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"If our players have [the right] mentality, we shouldn’t have a problem. It helps me help the players and make, if needs be, the right decisions on the day.

"As a manager, you are there to adjust or make the changes you feel necessary for one reason or another, and hopefully that experience will give you the knowledge of how to do that. But, in the end, it’s about the players giving their best performance, hopefully from the very first whistle to the last.

"There's Hull we need to compete against and [also] the size of the game. Whoever deals with the pressure better is a big factor. We have to deal with the emotion of the game and make sure we come out on top.

"The clean sheet is all-important. There is a fact that if we don’t concede a goal, we stay in the Premier League. The pressure lies on Hull — they have to win the game, we have to draw it.

"Whatever happens, however well you play or don’t play, it’s the result that matters. If we have to get the result ugly, we will get it ugly."

Marco Silva

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"We are ready to go to Palace and try and win the game. Our focus is on the next game and we need to win. It's normal, it's a fight between three clubs but when we were out of the bottom three I said it is until the end and it will go until the end.

"It's like a final for us but for our opponent as well. Three or four weeks ago, nobody put Palace in this fight but now they need to fight, they are not safe.

"We need to win the games and the next, of course, it is like a final to us. We have got to believe and this is most important."

Hull City - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
18th	36	9	7	20	34

Full league table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
10/12/2016	League	Hull City	3 - 3	Crystal Palace
25/04/2015	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 2	Hull City
04/10/2014	League	Hull City	2 - 0	Crystal Palace
28/01/2014	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 0	Hull City
23/11/2013	League	Hull City	0 - 1	Crystal Palace

All time results

Last meeting

Hull City 3-3 Palace

Saturday December 10 2016

Hull City: Marshall, Maguire, Davies, Dawson, Livermore, Elmohamady, Huddlestone, Robertson, Clucas (Henriksen, 89), Snodgrass, Diomande

Subs not used: Mason, Weir, Maloney, Meyler, Bowen, Jakupovic

Goals: Snodgrass (pen 27), Diomande (72), Livermore (78)

Bookings: Elmohamady, Snodgrass

Palace: Hennessey, Ward, Delaney, Kelly (Campbell, 80), Dann, Ledley, Puncheon, McArthur (Cabaye, 71), Townsend (Fryers, 45), Zaha, Benteke

Subs not used: Lee, Speroni, Flamini, Phillips

Goals: Benteke (pen 52), Zaha (70), Campbell (89)

Bookings: Dann, Puncheon, McArthur, Cabaye