Leg Weary v Hungry Eagles

This game is a potential banana skin. Palace come into it on a good run of form and we take the field with very little recovery time from the epic effort at Blackpool. Sooner or later, all the covering and chasing and closing that has been forced upon us because of the red cards will take its toll.

Faye may play but will probably be 95% at best. Faubert has a tight hamstring. Collison seems to have stamina issues given Allardyce's previous reluctance to use him in back to back games in the same week. Noble must be tired, his efforts over the last three games have been little short of Hurculean. O'Brien has been working like a Trojan too and McCartney wasn't 100% for the Southampton game but has had to put in an exhausting shift for the last two games regardless. And Vaz Te was out on his feet at the end of the Blackpool match.

Meanwhile, options are reduced. Nolan and Taylor are still suspended and Diop isn't fit.

I expect Allardyce to name an unchanged team, although Cole may get the nod ahead of Maynard, and Boffin should now make the bench. It's another huge game. Win it, and we are in touching distance of the Prem. But the Eagles are flying so nobody should count their chickens yet!