Palace v Manchester United

Selhurst Park, Monday 8.00pm

Jeffrey Schlupp

Team news

Palace hope to have left back Jeffrey Schlupp and makeshift centre half Martin Kelly in the line-up for the visit of Manchester United.

Schlupp has recovered from his knee problem and Kelly with his hamstring issue for the league clash at Selhurst Park. On-loan defender Timothy Fosu-Mensah is ineligible to play against parent club United.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek (ankle) is closing in on a return but picked up a minor knock on his knee during a training game this week.

Joel Ward (leg), Mamadou Sakho (calf), Yohan Cabaye (groin) WILFRIED ZAHA, Connor Wickham and Julian Speroni (all knee) are still out. New Brazilian goalkeeper Diego Cavalieri goes into the squad, with Speroni sidelined.

Scott Dann and Jason Puncheon (both knee) plus Bakary Sako (ankle) are missing for the rest of the season.

Manchester United will be without six players for this fixture as Phil Jones, Marcos Rojo, Daley Blind, Marouane Fellaini, Ander Herrera and Zlatan Ibrahimovic are all missing.

Palace (from): Hennessey, Cavalieri, Henry, Kelly, Schlupp, Jach, Tomkins, Van Aanholt, Delaney, Riedewald, Souare, Lee, McArthur, Milivojevic, Lokilo, Rakip, Townsend, Sorloth, Benteke, Lumeka.

United (from): De Gea, Romero, Pereira, Valencia, Darmian, Shaw, Young, Lindelof, Smalling, Bailly, Matic, Carrick, Pogba, McTominay, Gomes, Mata, Lingard, Sanchez, Rashford, Martial, Lukaku, Ibrahimovic.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"You can't definitely plan ahead on the basis you will be in one league or the other. You have to take into account all the contingencies and that seems to be what he [Steve Parish] has done.

"I know very well that Steve Parish as a chairman - every bit as much as me, my players and my staff - is 100 per cent focused on doing everything we possibly can to stay in the league.

"The good news was that the injury which has kept him [Ruben Loftus-Cheek] out for a long period of time, the ankle, seems to be much better and he seems to be on the mend from that.

"We are hopeful that is not going to be a major issue and we are hopeful to see him back at Selhurst Park very soon.

"Wilfried is recovering ahead of schedule, but his running at the moment is pretty much in straight lines but we haven't done those difficult things that need testing out for knee ligament injuries, i.e. the twisting and turning and then of course the contact with other players when you get back into normal training."

Manchester United - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
2nd	28	18	5	5	59

Full league table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
30/09/2017	League	Manchester United	4 - 0	Crystal Palace
21/05/2017	League	Manchester United	2 - 0	Crystal Palace
14/12/2016	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 2	Manchester United
21/05/2016	FA Cup	Crystal Palace	1 - 2	Manchester United
20/04/2016	League	Manchester United	2 - 0	Crystal Palace

All time results

Last meeting

Manchester United 4-0 Palace

Saturday September 30 2017

Manchester United: de Gea, Valencia, Smalling, Jones, Young, Fellaini, Mata (Herrera, 77), Mkhitaryan (Lingard, 66), Matic, Rashford (Martial, 72), Lukaku

Subs not used: Bailly, Blind, Darmian, Romero

Goals: Mata (3), Fellaini (35, 49), Lukaku (86)

Palace: Hennessey, van Aanholt, Ward, Sakho, Delaney, Schlupp (McArthur, 68), Milivojevic, Townsend, Cabaye, Puncheon (Riedewald, 69), Sako (Ladapo, 74)

Subs not used: Speroni, Mutch, Kelly, Lee