Leeds United v Palace

Elland Road, Saturday 3.00pm

George Burley

Team news

Palace were forced to use the David Beckham academy at the O2 in London on Thursday as the Beckenham training ground was covered in snow.

Paddy McCarthy is a doubt for the match after picking up groin strain during the match against Sheffield United.

Alex Marrow has an ankle injury which will put him out of the game and OWEN GARVAN is still suspended.

Leeds have no new injury concerns but Simon Grayson will have to make one change after Paul Connolly picked up his fifth booking of the season at Reading and serves a one match ban.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"With three wins on the bounce at Selhurst we just need to start picking up the points away from home and I'm sure we'll be climbing the table soon. I'm not too worried about the away form though because I can't really fault the way we've played in our last two matches on the road."

"We were fantastic for a half against Middlesbrough and could easily have won that match. Then there was the game at Sheffield United and we all know what happened there. So we travel up to Leeds with plenty of confidence and are full of belief that we can get a good result."

Simon Grayson

"A lot of hard work has gone on to get training on this week," said the boss. "We've had grass to train on which is full testament to them.

"The groundstaff and stadium staff have certainly worked hard and the fact that the game will be on is down to a lot of hard work from a lot of people.

"Hopefully the hard work will bear fruition with a result and a performance.

"So many clubs will go a full week without training on grass. I don't think we could do much more in terms of our own preparation, now we have to approach the game in a right manner.

"Palace have had a good run of results lately and we respect that, but hopefully after all the hard work that's gone on behind the scenes we will get a positive result."

Leeds United - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
8th	19	8	5	6	29

Full league table

Leeds United - current form

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
6	3	3	0	13	7

Full form table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
26/08/2008	League Cup	Leeds United	4 - 0	Crystal Palace
10/02/2007	League	Leeds United	2 - 1	Crystal Palace
13/08/2006	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 0	Leeds United
21/03/2006	League	Leeds United	0 - 1	Crystal Palace
04/03/2006	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 2	Leeds United

All time results

Last meeting

Leeds United 4-0 Palace

Tuesday August 26 2008

Leeds United: Lucas, Richardson, Michalik, Telfer, White (Johnson, 73), Hughes, Douglas, Delph, Kilkenny, Beckford (Howson, 78), Becchio (Showunmi, 57)

Subs not used: Martin, Marques, Robinson, Snodgrass

Goals: Douglas 11, Beckford 32, Becchio 52, Showunmi 76

Palace: Flahavan, Ertl, Lawrence, McCarthy, Hill, Soares, Watson (Fletcher, 88), Carle (Hills, 63), Djilali, Andrew, Moses (Ifill, 66)

Subs not used: Speroni, Thomas, Oster, Griffit