Match Day Thread CRYSTAL PALACE v WATFORD

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CRYSTAL PALACE V WATFORD
Venue : Selhurst Park
Tuesday 12th December 2017
Kick Off : 2000 GMT

Facts

All of Crystal Palace’s 10 Premier League goals this season have come at Selhurst Park. They have had 29 more shots on target at home than away (44 v 15).

Crystal Palace have won four of their last six home league matches against Watford, losing the other two.

Watford have more points (13) and the same number of goals scored (15) in eight away matches this season as in the whole of 2016/17.

Troy Deeney has scored the winner in both of the meetings between these sides at Selhurst Park, hitting both goals for Watford in a 2-1 win in February 2016 and then an own goal to hand the Eagles victory last season.

Crystal Palace are a team who have been steadily improving under manager Roy Hodgson after making the worst ever start to a season by any English club in the form of seven straight defeats to nil. They really had the chance to take all three points against Bournemouth at the weekend but a missed penalty reduced them to a single one.


Watford Team News
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Marco Silva will wait on the outcome of the club's appeal of Marvin Zeegelaar's sending off before naming what he anticipates being an otherwise unchanged squad for the trip to Crystal Palace.

The club lodged an appeal with the Football Association this morning in a bid to get the first-half red card shown to Zeegelaar overturned. The Dutch left-back faces a three-match ban should the appeal be unsuccessful.

Should Zeegelaar's red card be upheld, José Holebas looks poised to start at left-back for the first time since Everton away, and Molla Wagué looks set to come onto the bench. Miguel Britos and Kiko Feminía are struggling to make the match at Selhurst Park.

"We’ll try with them," said Silva. "Britos is more difficult to play tomorrow but we'll see what happens. Kiko is a matter of days. His injury is nothing special, he has some fatigue as well. We need to be 100 per cent sure they can play."

Apart from that, Silva reports a clean bill of health from the players involved at Turf Moor on Saturday.

Referee: Lee Mason
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Assistants: Ian Hussin, Matthew Wilkes
Fourth official: Simon Hooper


:emoticon-0100-smile WHEREVER YOU ARE IN THE WORLD - ENJOY THE GAME :emoticon-0100-smile


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Roy Hodgson certainly has good things to say about us:

I will give you three things that are good - their athleticism, their work rate and the quality of their individual players.

"We are preparing for the best Watford team we have seen. They have done very well and they are ninth because that is what they have deserved."
 
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I’m in shock! Merson has just said ‘Watford play too good football for Palace’. Prediction 1-2!
 
On entertainment value this is the best 'orns season I have seen in years. Another great game tonight. Can't wait.

Bring it on <cheers>

Enjoy one and all
 
oldfrenchhorn said:
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| [HASHTAG]#watfordfc[/HASHTAG] will be without Marvin Zeegelaar for the next three games after the club's appeal against his red card at Burnley on Saturday proved unsuccessful.
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I didn't think it'd get overturned.

Holebas must behave himself for 3 games at least. What is it with our left sided players and cards? :emoticon-0127-lipss
 
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