Norwich City v Palace

Carrow Road, Saturday 3.00pm

Dougie Freedman

Team news

Injured trio Dougie Freedman (hamstring), Aki Riihilahti (calf) and Danny Granville (leg) all face late fitness tests and could make the Eagles squad.

Norwich's Youssef Safri hopes to have overcome his hamstring injury and start after coming on as a sub in the draw with Crewe.

Dean Marney may keep his place in the side with Simon Charlton on the bench.

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Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
16/04/2005	League	Crystal Palace	3 - 3	Norwich City
14/08/2004	League	Norwich City	1 - 1	Crystal Palace
20/03/2004	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 0	Norwich City
27/09/2003	League	Norwich City	2 - 1	Crystal Palace
14/12/2002	League	Crystal Palace	2 - 0	Norwich City

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Dean Ashton

When it comes to the age old debate about whether you prefer to live in the city or the countryside, everybody has their own preferences and they tend to be split 50/50. For example, myself, I prefer to live in the city, as does Andy Johnson and Iain Dowie being at Palace, however, former Palace target Dean Ashton, it appears, does not.

He prefers the quiet life up in the Norfolk Broads where he can practice his sharp, darting runs by running away from stampeding sheep, his fantastic heading ability by nodding sticks to his resident sheepdog and his prolific ability to score, by volleying the eggs that come flying out of the farmyard chickens.

These may seem ridiculous methods but they seem to have an effect on the folk of the North. 'Deano' has flourished at Norwich after his £3m move from Crewe where he scored 18 goals last season in the championship (and that was only by New Years Day!) he managed to carry that form into the premiership and almost single handedly kept Norwich up by scoring an impressive 7 goals in the latter half of the season.

He has become talismanic for Norwich in a very short space of time and is being considered by all as AJ's main rival for the championship golden boot this season.

Lets hope One Size and Ward can keep him quiet for the afternoon because if they cant, then we are in trouble, as not only will Ashton be licking his lips, but so will Darren Huckerby, who you can rest assured, will be up to his usual diving tactics again. And with Robert Green in goal Norwich wont be easy to score against either.

Matches for us dont get any easier do they, and they dont come much harder in this league, than our joint pre-season favourites, the pigeons from Norfolk.

Last meeting

Palace 3-3 Norwich City

Saturday April 16 2005

Palace: Kiraly, Butterfield (Torghelle, 72), Hall, Sorondo, Granville, Routledge, Leigertwood (Soares, 65), Hughes, Kolkka (Popovic, 84), Johnson, Freedman

Subs not used: Speroni, Riihilahti

Bookings: Granville, Hughes

Goals: Kolkka 5, Hughes 73, Johnson 83 (pen)

Norwich City: Green, Helveg, Fleming, Shackell, Drury, Francis (Holt, 88), Safri, Bentley, Huckerby (Jonson, 89), McKenzie (Svensson, 88), Ashton

Subs not used: Ward, Doherty

Bookings: Helveg, Shackell

Goals: Ashton 22, Ashton 46, McKenzie 53

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