FA Cup: Crystal Palace v Man City preview


Crystal Palace v Man City preview

Crystal Palace will look to get their season moving in the right direction as they host Manchester City in the FA Cup fourth round.


Sam Allardyce's men have won only one of their last 10 games in all competitions, which was at home to Bolton in the FA Cup third round.

Palace have kept just one clean sheet in their last 27 Premier League games and will undoubtedly have trouble containing free-scoring City, who scored five in the third round against West Ham.

Palace will remain without Wilfried Zaha and Bakary Sako.

Saturday's fixture is likely to prove too soon for both forwards, worsening manager Allardyce's options with Scott Dann and Julian Speroni also absent owing to hamstring and knee injuries respectively.

Fraizer Campbell and Steve Mandanda have returned to training but Pape Souare (broken leg) Connor Wickham and Jonathan Benteke (both knee) remain long-term absentees.

Vincent Kompany and Gabriel Jesus could start for Manchester City.

Kompany is in contention after recovering from the knee injury that has sidelined him for the past two months while striker Jesus is in line for a full debut following his £27m move from Palmeiras.

Second-choice goalkeeper Willy Caballero will play as Claudio Bravo is rested but midfielder Fernandinho is still missing as he completes a four-match ban.

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