Fratton Park, Tuesday 7.45pm
Crystal Palace defender Claude Davis will sit the tie out through suspension after his red card against Ipswich on Saturday.
Forward Pablo Counago could make his Eagles debut after signing on loan from Ipswich, but fellow new signing Edgar Davids is not yet match fit.
Portsmouth striker John Utaka is doubtful due to a hamstring injury. Former Palace star Hayden Mullins will play with a knee injury in the right-back role.
Steve Cotterill
"It's a good job we have great fans. At the moment we are going to need them more than ever. Sometimes it's difficult when your team is not good enough for all of your experienced boys to turn up.
"You want them to turn up but we were limp at Preston. It was a poor performance. Effort-wise was the thing. Then you think about it and think 'Is it really effort?'.
"That's the first thing you can attack, but then you have to look a little deeper. I don't think any of them really want to do poorly because they are not bad lads.
"There is a new centre-back partnership there and Carl Dickinson has played no more than two average games at best.
"He knows that. Let's give him a bit more time to try to settle. Then there is a new keeper settling, too. They have to get into their groove, though, because that is what we've got."
Position | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
21st | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Date | Type | Home Team | Score | Away Team | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
26/12/2004 | League | Crystal Palace | 0 - 1 | Portsmouth | |
11/09/2004 | League | Portsmouth | 3 - 1 | Crystal Palace | |
26/12/2002 | League | Portsmouth | 1 - 1 | Crystal Palace | |
17/08/2002 | League | Crystal Palace | 2 - 3 | Portsmouth | |
05/03/2002 | League | Crystal Palace | 0 - 0 | Portsmouth |
Palace 0-1 Portsmouth
Sunday December 26 2004
Palace: Kiraly, Butterfield, Sorondo, Hall, Granville, Routledge (Freedman, 70), Riihilahti (Andrews, 84), Watson (Soares, 63), Hughes, Kolkka, Johnson
Subs not used: Speroni, Popovic
Portsmouth: Hislop, Griffin, De Zeeuw, Primus, Taylor, Mezague (Kamara, 56), Stone, Faye, Quashie, Berger, Yakubu (Fuller, 56)
Subs not used: Berkovic, Cisse, Ashdown
Bookings: Fuller, Griffin
Goals: Primus 69
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