Osian Roberts, Palace’s assistant manager - Patrick Vieira is one of their actual absentees - has a chat. Benteke, Olise, Eze, Clyne, Guaita and Milivojevic are not involved today, for a variety of reasons:

It’s been challenging. Patrick is OK. I’ve spoken to him many times this morning. Now we’re here we’re getting on with it. There’s a combination of injuries, covid and some returning from covid and not able to participate in this game, but we’ve been preparing all week, the gameplan is the same and we’re looking forward to the game. We’re ready to play, and it’s an important game for us.

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