Bristol City v Palace

Ashton Gate, Tuesday 7.45pm

The Carabao Cup

Team news

Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson will field a much-changed side from Saturday's Premier League defeat away at Newcastle to give fringe players some game time.

Defenders James Tomkins and Martin Kelly are set to start, along with goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey who has recently lost his place to Julian Speroni.

There could be run-outs for squad players Pape Souare, Jairo Riedewald, Bakary Sako and Lee Chung-yong. Front two Christian Benteke and Connor Wickham (both knee) are still injured.

Bristol City striker Milan Djuric is back from a groin injury and could feature. Korey Smith (hamstring) and Nathan Baker (knee) are set to miss out, while Jamie Paterson (illness) is a doubt.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"Well, I am hoping to [rotate the side], I'd like to because we have some very, very good players. For example, we have two centre-backs who played virtually all of last year in Tomkins and Kelly and at the moment, they're not getting a game and it would be interesting for me to see them.

"We've got a Welsh international goalkeeper on the bench, for example, so there are lots of situations like that where people are crying out for a game, and it would be wrong of me I think not to give them a chance in a midweek game to show what they can do.

"We are going to go there and try to win the game - it's not a question of we don't care about Tuesday because we have got a match on the Saturday.

"At the moment, I think we are capable of doing both of those things. We don't have an enormous amount of midweek games at Crystal Palace - once we're out of this cup, we won't have any more midweek games until such time as we perhaps play in the FA Cup, so we have no reason to start protecting ourselves.

"It's more a question of maybe giving one or two players who have been champing at the bit to try to get a chance to show what they can do vis-a-vis the ones I am choosing in the first team at the moment to show they they have got the quality we are looking for too."

Lee Johnson

"Crystal Palace have gone with Roy Hodgson - somebody who is very, very experienced - and he will have worked hard on the training ground to get a structure and organisation which they've clearly got now with a couple of good results in there.

"They will come here expecting to boss the game and it's up to us as the underdogs to show that we have quality as well. I think the players are really going to relish the game.

"I will expect us to compete tomorrow and I will pick a team that I know will go out and put their bodies on the line, put their foot in, be aggressive and get on the foot front - that's what we need after two disappointing games on the spin."

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
27/08/2013	League Cup	Bristol City	2 - 1	Crystal Palace
19/02/2013	League	Crystal Palace	2 - 1	Bristol City
21/08/2012	League	Bristol City	4 - 1	Crystal Palace
14/02/2012	League	Bristol City	2 - 2	Crystal Palace
18/10/2011	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 0	Bristol City

All time results

Last meeting

Bristol City 2-1 Palace

Tuesday August 27 2013

Bristol City: Parish, Williams (Fontaine, 74), Moloney, Flint, Cunningham, Bryan (Pack, 64), Elliott, Wagstaff, Reid, Baldock (Harewood, 72), Emmanuel-Thomas

Subs not used: Fielding, Wilson, Burns, Wynter

Goals: Emmanuel-Thomas (59), Wagstaff (71)

Bookings: Bryan

Palace: Alexander, Williams, Ramage, Marange, Wynter (De Silva, 68), Williams, Garvan, Grandin, O'Keefe, Wilbraham (Appiah, 55), Dobbie (Phillips, 45)

Subs not used: Boateng, Fitzsimons, Taylor, Parsons

Goals: Garvan (90)

Bookings: O'Keefe

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