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December 28 2024 1.58am

Palace v Swansea City

Selhurst Park, Sunday 3.00pm

Alan Pardew

Alan Pardew

Team news

Manager Alan Pardew has a clean bill of health and will be aiming to end Crystal Palace's season on another high.

Pardew is likely to take a look at some fringe players with Wayne Hennessey staying in goal, and the manager may decided to stick with Martin Kelly at centre half and Jordon Mutch in midfield.

Swansea's Ki Sung-yueng is out after undergoing a minor knee operation. Manager Garry Monk may also give rare starts to Leon Britton, Jay Fulton and Modou Barrow.

Palace (from): Speroni, Hennessey, Souare, Mariappa, Hangeland, Ward, Chamakh, Dann, Delaney, Kelly, Ledley, Jedinak, Puncheon, McArthur, Bolasie, Zaha, Murray, Sanogo, Gayle, Ameobi, Lee, Mutch, Kaikai.

Swansea (from): Fabianski, Richards, Fernandez, Williams, Taylor, Cork, Shelvey, Montero, Sigurdsson, Gomis, Tremmel, Rangel, Tiendalli, Bartley, Fulton, Britton, Dyer, Emnes, Barrow, Grimes, King.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"We're all fit and well, and we're looking forward to the last home game. Julian is an icon here and he has his testimonial on Tuesday. I am purposely not starting him in this league game, so every fan need to come on Tuesday if they want to see him.

"He's been a terrific servant and those ticket sales need to improve, so he won't play on Sunday. I haven't thought about our number one for next year – Jules is our number one and Wayne is getting a couple of games. That's the situation.

"We're starting to finalise our end-of-season reports, and that will tell us a lot. Since I've been here, in the 18 games we're sixth in the table with the team we have, and that's incredible really from where we were.

"We're hoping to pick up three more points on Sunday to reinforce that position and then we need to build on that.

"We'll find out where we're lacking in the group and try to strenghthen it. We have 17,000 season ticket holders already pledged to support us next year, which is fantastic.

"I am sure that will grow, our memberships are on sale and this club is growing fast, and we need to make sure we have a team which is growing fast as our fans are going."

Marouane Chamakh

"I feel better, so much better. I am happy because I haven't started a game for three months. It was so hard to train, do rehab and not play.

"We have been good away from home this season, I don't know why, there isn't less pressure – maybe it's good because we can work on that for next season."


Swansea City - league stats

Position Played Won Drawn Lost Points
8th 37 16 8 13 56

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Last five results

Date Type Home Team Score Away Team  
29/11/2014 League Swansea City 1 - 1 Crystal Palace draw
02/03/2014 League Swansea City 1 - 1 Crystal Palace draw
22/09/2013 League Crystal Palace 0 - 2 Swansea City loss
15/01/2011 League Swansea City 3 - 0 Crystal Palace loss
30/10/2010 League Crystal Palace 0 - 3 Swansea City loss

All time results


Last meeting

Swansea City 1-1 Palace

Saturday November 29 2014

Swansea City: Fabianski, Rangel, Bartley, Williams, Taylor, Ki, Shelvey, Routledge (Barrow, 65), Sigurdsson, Montero, Bony (Gomis, 75)

Subs not used: Amat, Britton, Carroll, Tremmel, Richards

Goals: Bony 15

Palace: Speroni, Ward, Dann, Hangeland, Kelly, Puncheon (Zaha, 81), Jedinak, Ledley, Bolasie, Chamakh (Campbell, 66), Gayle (McArthur, 21)

Subs not used: Hennessey, Thomas, Fryers, Bannan

Goals: Jedinak 25 (pen)

Bookings: Chamakh, McArthur

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