Palace v Bournemouth

Selhurst Park, Saturday 3.00pm

Joel Ward

Team news

Crystal Palace right back Joel Ward is a doubt for the league clash with Bournemouth due to a groin injury and will be assessed closer to the game.

Goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey has overcome a back spasm which forced him out of the goalless draw at West Brom last weekend. Manager Roy Hodgson will have to decide whether to recall the Wales international or stick with Julian Speroni after his clean sheet.

Centre half Scott Dann missed the match at the Hawthorns due to illness, while midfielder James McArthur should be well enough to feature after suffering with a virus. Yohan Cabaye and James Tomkins are also in contention but Connor Wickham (knee) remains out.

Bournemouth have no new injury concerns. Steve Cook could return in place of the suspended Adam Smith.

Adam Federici (knee), Brad Smith (hip) and Tyrone Mings (back) are all unavailable for selection.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"We are desperate to do better than we have been doing, we're desperate to give the fans the victories that we think their attendance and their support merits, and that the club deserves too.

"We feel an enormous amount of pressure. I can't imagine quite frankly, at the moment, that there'll be one of the 23 games remaining where I don't feel an enormous pressure to get a result.

"I hope that transfers to the players too, because the moment we take our foot even slightly off the gas we're going to be going backwards.

"I don't think it's fair to say that, because we've had a couple of results which have been more positive, that we now feel confident and it's something to look forward to and there's no pressure - that would be really wrong to say that,” he added.

"I hope there will be a day where I can go into a game with no pressure because that'll be the day where we're so far away from the relegation zone that we can't get relegated."

Eddie Howe

"When we talk about these fixtures, I don’t think you can put greater emphasis on any of them. Everyone knows how big each game is. Even if we had won against Southampton there would have been no change. We know Crystal Palace is the next game – so it is the biggest game."

Bournemouth - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
14th	15	4	3	8	15

Full league table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
31/01/2017	League	Bournemouth	0 - 2	Crystal Palace
27/08/2016	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 1	Bournemouth
02/02/2016	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 2	Bournemouth
26/12/2015	League	Bournemouth	0 - 0	Crystal Palace
04/03/1989	League	Crystal Palace	2 - 3	Bournemouth

All time results

Last meeting

Bournemouth 0-2 Palace

Tuesday January 31 2017

Bournemouth: Boruc, Smith, Smith (Arter, 68), Cook, S Francis, Stanislas (Ibe, 61), King, Wilshere, Fraser, Surman, Afobe (Wilson, 61)

Subs not used: Allsop, Gosling, Pugh, Mings

Palace: Hennessey, Delaney, Ward, Tomkins, Dann, van Aanholt, McArthur (Townsend, 75), Puncheon (Flamini, 89), Cabaye (Ledley, 76), Zaha, Benteke

Subs not used: Campbell, Remy, Speroni, Fryers

Goals: Dann (46), Benteke (90)

Bookings: Benteke, Townsend, Delaney, Ward