Crystal Palace v Leicester: Premier League – live!

This match is very much filling the get-completely-ignored-because-another-one’s-more-exciting role this afternoon, with Sky concentrating on Liverpool’s game against Manchester City and devoting a healthy chunk of the build-up to an interview with Daniel Craig. “Are we going to start talking about football?” asks Roy Keane, after it’s suggested that he would make a decent Bond villain.

The Palace team is so predictable that we actually did predict it. Leicester spring a couple of surprises, though the absence of Wilfred Ndidi, who was suspended for the visit to Legia Warsaw and misses today’s match with a hamstring injury, was trailed over the last couple of days. Jonny Evans is apparently unwell.

This afternoon’s line-ups have been confirmed, and they look a lot like this:

Crystal Palace: Guaita, Ward, Andersen, Guehi, Mitchell, Gallagher, Milivojevic, McArthur, Ayew, Edouard, Zaha. Subs: Butland, Tomkins, Olise, Kouyate, Hughes, Schlupp, Clyne, Benteke, Kelly.
Leicester: Schmeichel, Castagne, Soyuncu, Vestergaard, Bertrand, Lookman, Tielemans, Choudhury, Barnes, Iheanacho, Vardy. Subs: Maddison, Albrighton, Ward, Perez, Amartey, Ricardo Pereira, Dewsbury-Hall, Daka, Soumare.
Referee: Anthony Taylor.

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Hold on to your hats – the last 10 games between these teams have featured 32 goals, two red cards and a couple of penalties. Managers change and players come and go, but this fixture always tends to be a good one. With neither side suffering from injury problems or bizarre paperwork malfunctions (such as the one that kept Kelechi Iheanacho out of Poland in midweek) they should roar into this with vim and panache and entertain us through a sunny but windy Sunday afternoon (well, it’s sunny and windy outside my window; other windows are available).

Here’s what yesterday’s Guardian reckoned the line-ups might be. Actual line-ups to follow in a matter of moments: