Doncaster Rovers v Palace

Keepmoat Stadium, Saturday 3.00pm

Julian Speroni

Team news

Crystal Palace manager Dougie Freedman will make changes from the side that knocked Middlesbrough out of the Carling Cup on Tuesday night. Julian Speroni will return inbetween the posts, with Sean Scannell, Peter Ramage, David Wright, Alex Tunchev, Darren Ambrose and Jermaine Easter likely to return to the starting line-up.

Nathaniel Clyne (foot), Lee Hills (knee), Kagisho Dikgacoi (hamstring) and OWEN GARVAN (hip) all still out.

New Doncaster Rovers boss Dean Saunders hopes to have Ryan Mason and Billy Sharp back in the side after ankle ligament injuries. But Chris Brown, James Chambers, Martin Woods and Adam Lockwood are missing.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"It wasn't so long ago that we were down the bottom and I know when you are struggling you scrap for every single ball.

"We know it will be a difficult game and this is a very tough league so you don't get given points.

"We'll go up there confident though and hopefully we can get the points. We played well in our last two league games without getting the rewards I feel we have deserved so hopefully we can take a step towards making up for that on Saturday."

Doncaster Rovers - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
24th	7	0	1	6	1

Full league table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
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
05/12/2009	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 3	Doncaster Rovers
25/04/2009	League	Doncaster Rovers	2 - 0	Crystal Palace

All time results

Last meeting

Doncaster Rovers 0-0 Palace

Friday April 22 2011

Doncaster Rovers: Woods, O'Connor, Friend, Thomas, Dumbuya (Martis, 79), Gillett, Coppinger (Shiels, 88), Oster, Moussa (Hayter, 73), Stock, Euell

Subs not used: Kilgallon, Mason, Wilson, Sullivan

Bookings: Stock

Palace: Speroni, Gardner, McCarthy, Moxey, Clyne, Ambrose, Danns, Agustien, Dikgacoi, Zaha (Cadogan, 89), Counago (Iversen, 68)

Subs not used: Garvan, Price, Easter, Wright, Davis

Bookings: Gardner