Everton v Palace

Goodison Park, Sunday 4.00pm

Marouane Chamakh (Photo: Andy Roberts)

Team news

Crystal Palace striker Marouane Chamakh is available, but manager Neil Warnock may decide not to rush him back after his recent hamstring problem. Joe Ledley (hip) and Wilfried Zaha (knock) are in the squad after recovering from injury.

Everton left-back Leighton Baines should start despite suffering a head injury during his side's midweek European match, while Sylvain Distin has overcome a back issue.

Everton (from): Howard, Coleman, Distin, Jagielka, Baines, Hibbert, Barry, McCarthy, McGeady, Mirallas, Naismith, Lukaku, Robles, Stones, Alcaraz, Gibson, Osman, Besic, Pienaar, Eto'o.

Palace (from): Speroni, Hennessey, Mariappa, Kelly, Fryers, Ward, Delaney, Dann, Hangeland, Jedinak, McArthur, Bannan, Ledley, Williams, Bolasie, Thomas, Puncheon, Gayle, Campbell, Johnson, Doyle, Chamakh, Zaha.

Quotes

Julian Speroni "Neil makes such a big impact everywhere he goes and he has settled things down now and we are looking forward to what is coming.

"It won’t take the other lads long to work out what Neil Warnock wants and expects from his players. He always makes himself very clear and they will pick it up in no time.

"We had the international week and a lot of the players were away, which made it hard really to work on anything.

"But hopefully now we can use the next week to work really hard and we’ll be looking forward to the game against Everton."

Wilfried Zaha

"I know how everything works here and the gaffer just wants to give me game time to improve my game, so I’m glad I’m back.

"There’s nothing like being on the pitch and the crowd singing your name and the whole atmosphere is good, so I am really enjoying it.

"I need to work on my movement a little bit so that I can get on the ball a bit more so that I can impact on the game for longer periods, but I’ll work on that. I’m just looking to improve and get back into the England set up."

Everton - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
11th	4	1	2	1	5

Full league table

Everton - current form

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
4	1	2	1	9	10

Full form table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
16/04/2014	League	Everton	2 - 3	Crystal Palace
09/11/2013	League	Crystal Palace	0 - 0	Everton
10/04/2005	League	Everton	4 - 0	Crystal Palace
21/08/2004	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 3	Everton
12/09/2001	League Cup	Everton	1 - 1	Crystal Palace

All time results

Last meeting

Everton 2-3 Palace

Wednesday April 16 2014

Everton: Howard, Baines, Coleman, Distin, Stones, Barry (Osman, 59), McGeady (McCarthy, 59), Mirallas, Barkley, Deulofeu (Naismith, 45), Lukaku

Subs not used: Alcaraz, Robles, Garbutt, Hibbert

Goals: Naismith (61), Mirallas (86)

Bookings: Baines

Palace: Speroni, Dann, Mariappa (Parr, 68), Ward, Delaney, Ledley, Puncheon, Bolasie, Jedinak, Chamakh (Murray, 80), Jerome (O'Keefe, 76)

Subs not used: Gayle, Hennessey, Ince, McCarthy

Goals: Puncheon (23), Dann (49), Jerome (73)

Bookings: Delaney, Puncheon