Palace v Stoke City

Selhurst Park, Saturday 3.00pm

Christian Benteke

Team news

Eagles striker Christian Benteke is set to start in attack after getting fully match fit following his recent knee injury.

It will probably be too soon for left-back Patrick van Aanholt (hamstring) and Chung-yong Lee (leg). Connor Wickham (knee) is out until the New Year.

Stoke playmaker Xherdan Shaqiri (hamstring) is a doubt, while Geoff Cameron (concussion) and Jack Butland (finger) won't feature.

Palace (from): Speroni, Hennessey, Ward, Fosu-Mensah, Dann, Sakho, Tomkins, Riedewald, Delaney, Schlupp, Van Aanholt, Souare, Kelly, Townsend, Lofus-Cheek, Milivojevic, Puncheon, Cabaye, McArthur, Mutch, Ladapo, Sako, Kaikai, Zaha, Benteke.

Stoke (from): Grant, Haugaard, Zouma, Wimmer, Shawcross, Martins Indi, Johnson, Pieters, Ngoy, Edwards, Diouf, Fletcher, Allen, Adam, Afellay, Jese, Shaqiri, Choupo-Moting, Sobhi, Berahino, Crouch.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"I watched the game between Brighton and Stoke and I came away thinking very much about the footballing aspects of Stoke, I didn’t come away thinking they were an intimidating team at all. I think that would be probably a bit unfair to label them like that and I'm certain if Mark Hughes was accepting that question he would be pretty critical of it.

"We’ve been working all week and in our mind all week has been Stoke City and the game we have got to play and not once have we mentioned physicality. We have talked about their style of play and how they set up on the field but nothing at all about physicality."

Mark Hughes

"If you look at the strength Palace have at the top end of the pitch then you would anticipate that they will turn things around. Possibly they haven't had the defensive platform to enable them to release the quality attackers they have to win matches for them.

"You do feel that at some point, with the quality they have, they will go on a run. They have players like Christian Benteke, Wilfried Zaha and many others, they are very good players who we need to keep quiet throughout the 90 minutes."

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
11/02/2017	League	Stoke City	1 - 0	Crystal Palace
18/09/2016	League	Crystal Palace	4 - 1	Stoke City
07/05/2016	League	Crystal Palace	2 - 1	Stoke City
30/01/2016	FA Cup	Crystal Palace	1 - 0	Stoke City
19/12/2015	League	Stoke City	1 - 2	Crystal Palace

All time results

Last meeting

Stoke City 1-0 Palace

Saturday February 11 2017

Stoke City: Grant, Bardsley (Johnson, 58), Shawcross, 53), Indi, Pieters, Whelan, Adam (Afellay, 79), Arnautovic, Allen, Sobhi (Diouf, 82), Crouch

Subs not used: Muniesa, Berahino, Imbula, Given

Goals: Allen (67)

Bookings: Shawcross

Palace: Hennessey, Ward, Tomkins, Delaney, van Aanholt, Milivojevic, McArthur (Remy, 87), Zaha (Schlupp, 68), Puncheon (Cabaye, 77), Townsend, Benteke

Subs not used: Speroni, Flamini, Campbell, Sakho

Bookings: Zaha, Delaney, Puncheon

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