Sometimes I get a gut feeling that a surprise is on the cards.

Can't get that feeling at all for this one.

I shall have a tenner on a Palace win for the hell of it.

I have now sufficient funds to last me the rest of my life. Provided I don't buy anything.

I'm going to say a 2-1 win. If Andersen can pass like he did against Arsenal against a Liverpool high line, I think we could nick a goal or two

I would have felt marginally less pessimistic if they hadn't been held to a draw by Fulham. 0-3.

I know close to nothing about betting, but I thought that a bookie's odds, once betting is under way, had nothing to do with their opinions but everything to do with what the punters are doing - the same as marker-makers in the stock market, whose share price quotes have nothing to do with their assessment of the companies (half of the time they don't even know what the companies do!), but solely reflect the volume of buying and selling that they're experiencing.

We are still players short of a squad for this game and therefore it has come at the wrong time for us and I can only see us heading for a second defeat on the bounce, hopefully I'm wrong!

My prediction is that we’ll concede one or possibly two from a set piece.
Liverpool’s delivery from set pieces and movement in the penalty area are in general very good .
We tend to be static and don’t compete well in the air when under pressure.
In other facets of the game I hope we’ll give them a game and pose a few problems for them defensively.