Keepmoat Stadium, Sunday 4.00pm
Palace midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate has recovered from his ankle injury and is available for selection. Keeper Julian Speroni is still out, along with Pape Souare (shoulder).
Winger WILFRIED ZAHA is suspended after failing in his appeal to overturn a one-match ban for improper conduct in the recent game against Southampton.
Doncaster defender Andy Butler is back from suspension, however Tyler Smith and Rian McLean are both cup tied.
Roy Hodgson
"I’m expecting a big challenge. They’re doing very well at the moment and we’ve got a lot of respect for them. We’ve watched the videos of their team play and been impressed, and of course they’re on a good run of results as well.
"It’s not going to be an easy one by any stretch of the imagination and we’ve seen so many examples of that already. Doncaster are a team that’s on the verge of the Championship so we’re preparing for a real tough one."
Grant McCann
"We won't change the way we play. We will play our game. If it'’s good enough it’s good enough. If it’s not, it's not.
"I’d be mad to try to sit behind the ball against Crystal Palace and let them have the ball.
"They’re Premier League players. Although I’d probably be mad pressing them as well. Who knows? We’ll see.
"It's a game we can go and give everything we have. If it’s good enough, then great. If it’s not, at least we gave it a good go."
Date | Type | Home Team | Score | Away Team | |
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27/03/2012 | League | Crystal Palace | 1 - 1 | Doncaster Rovers | |
24/09/2011 | League | Doncaster Rovers | 1 - 0 | Crystal Palace | |
22/04/2011 | League | Doncaster Rovers | 0 - 0 | Crystal Palace | |
27/11/2010 | League | Crystal Palace | 1 - 0 | Doncaster Rovers | |
27/02/2010 | League | Doncaster Rovers | 1 - 1 | Crystal Palace |
Palace 1-1 Doncaster Rovers
Tuesday March 27 2012
Palace: Speroni, McCarthy, McShane (Gardner, 6 (Murray, 24)), Moxey, Clyne, Williams (Ambrose, 80), Dikgacoi, O'Keefe, Zaha, Easter, Martin
Subs not used: Price, Pedroza
Goals: Easter (57)
Bookings: Martin
Doncaster Rovers: Ikeme, Lockwood, Chimbonda (Friend, 36), Ilunga, Beye, Gillett, Oster, Keegan (Brown, 73), Robert (Barnes, 72), Piquionne, Diouf
Subs not used: Coppinger, Bennett
Goals: Brown (76)
Bookings: Friend, Ilunga, Oster, Brown
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