Sheffield United v Palace

Bramall Lane, Sunday 2.00pm

Jeffrey Schlupp

Team news

Palace midfielder Jeffrey Schlupp returns to the squad after recovering from an ankle injury. Centre backs James Tomkins (groin), Mamadou Sakho (knee) are still missing, but new signing Gary Cahill could start after featuring for the U23s this week.

Manager Roy Hodgson must decided whether to begin with star man Wilfried Zaha after the attacker was on the bench against Everton last time out.

Blades striker Billy Sharp might have earned a starting role after coming off the bench with a goal to help claim a point at Bournemouth on the opening day.

New signing Oliver McBurnie and Everton loanee Muhamed Besic could be involved, but Lys Mousset and Ravel Morrison are still unavailable.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"[The away form] is down to how open the game gets and the type of players that we have are suited to the counter-attacking game: opponents come forward and leave space behind and they're quite good at exploiting those spaces.

"Sometimes at Selhurst Park, because the players and the team have done quite well and you build up a reputation of a hard team to beat, sometimes the teams come here a bit more prudent in how they approach the game from when they’re at home. It may just be as simple as that.

"We think there are more goals in the team than we were able to show last year, it’s up to the players, who are our front players and goalscorers, to show that.

"I think as the season wore on we became better at scoring goals and taking our chances and I’m hoping that is going to continue and get even better this season."

Sheffield United - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
9th	1	0	1	0	1

Full league table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
19/02/2011	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 0	Sheffield United
20/11/2010	League	Sheffield United	3 - 2	Crystal Palace
06/03/2010	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 0	Sheffield United
12/12/2009	League	Sheffield United	2 - 0	Crystal Palace
03/05/2009	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 0	Sheffield United

All time results

Last meeting

Palace 1-0 Sheffield United

Saturday February 19 2011

Palace: Speroni, Clyne, Wright, McCarthy, Moxey, Gardner, Ambrose (Davis 87), Danns, Dikgacoi, Zaha (Scannell 66), Vaughan (Counago 87)

Subs not used: Price, Barrett, Iversen, Easter

Goals: Ambrose 69

Bookings: Zaha, Counago

Sheffield United: Simonsen, Nosworthy, Lowry, Collins, Lowton, Doyle (Bent 72), Williamson, Quinn (Evans 72), Riise, Bogdanovic (Yeates 76), Cresswell

Subs not used: Long, Ertl, Calve, Parrino

Bookings: Nosworthy, Lowton, Williamson, Evans