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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Crystal Palace vs Southampton from Selhurt Park. Team news to follow shortly...

Premier League / Matchday 29
Selhurst Park / 08.03.2014
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Updated 08/03/2014 at 16:54 GMT


14:50
STATS: Palace have won ten of the last 18 points available to them but all of them have come from teams in the bottom half of the table. Palace have scored just 19 goals this season, joint-lowest with Cardiff, and their last two have been from the penalty spot. Rickie Lambert has scored three goals in his last two games against Palace. Saints have also lost just two of fifteen games against sides in the bottom half of the Premier League.
14:45
STATS: Crystal Palace have lost only two of their last nine Premier League home games while Saints have lost just two of their last seven away games. Southampton have also beaten Palace in their last four league games, three of which have been 2-0.
14:40
Mauricio Pocchetino is predicting a touch game at Selhurst Park: "Crystal Palace will be a very tough opponent. They have a clear style of playing under Tony Pulis. I have great respect for Tony Pulis. He's done very well at Crystal Palace and I have great admiration for the job he's done there. They have a different manager to when we last played them, so they'll be playing with a different style. "
14:35
Tony Pulis has praised his Saints counterpart for his work at the south coast club: "I have watched them quite a few times and I think the manager has done a fantastic job there. They have got an identity to their team, they play a certain way that is a little bit different to most other teams in the Premier League. With Shaw and (Callum) Chambers, I don't know what they put in the water down there but they certainly produce some very, very good players."
14:30
AWAY NEWS: Mauricio Pocchetino makes one change from the team that lost 3-0 at home last week as Nathanael Clyne returns to the starting line up in place of Calum Chambers to play against his boyhood club.
14:25
HOME NEWS: Pulis makes a few changes as Dean Moxey returns at left back for Jonny Parr. Thomas Ince is on the bench allowing Jason Puncheon to line up against his old club. Glenn Murray starts up front as Marouane Chamakh misses out with a hamstring injury.
14:20
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TEAMSL Crystal Palace: Speroni, Ward, Dann, Delaney, Moxey, Dikgacoi, Jedinak, Ledley, Puncheon, Bolasie, Murray. Subs: Hennessey, Gabbidon, Bannan, Thomas, Ince, Gayle, Jerome. /// Southampton: Boruc, Clyne, Fonte, Lovren, Shaw, Cork, Schneiderlin, S. Davis, Lallana, Rodriguez, Lambert. Subs: Gazzaniga, Yoshida, Ramírez, Wanyama, Ward-Prowse, Chambers, Gallagher.