Five additional minutes. QPR are finishing on a high. The question is: why couldn't they do this earlier?

Matt Phillips has come alive in the closing moments. QPR win a free-kick just outside the Palace box and Phillips steps up and blasts it...Julian Speroni scrambles aross his line to make a finger-tip save.

Trust me, it's worth watching Match of the Day tonight just for that goal alone.

Cameron Laws: Goal of the season that. Wow. Where did that come from?!

Jay: Speroni really went to sleep there.

Henri Colens: Goal of the season - incredible strike. Pity it's meaningless.

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Wow. QPR might be on their way to another defeat but Matt Phillips has just scored one of the goals of the season. He picks up the ball inside his own half, takes two or three touches and lets fly. Julian Speroni is back-pedalling but the ball sails over the Palace keeper's head and into the net. Sensational.

Sunderland

Steven Fletcher makes his first league start for Sunderland since January, Patrick van Aanholt is chosen ahead of Santiago Vergini and Ricky Alvarez also plays.

Brad Guzan returns in goal for Aston Villa, while striker Christian Benteke is named in the starting line-up with Ashley Westwood dropping to the bench.

Sunderland: Pantilimon, Reveillere, van Aanholt, Brown, O'Shea (c), Bridcutt, Larsson, Rodwell, Alvarez, Defoe, Fletcher.

Aston Villa: Guzan, Lowton, Okore, Clark, Bacuna, Delph (c), Cleverley, Sinclair, N'Zogbia, Benteke, Agbonlahor.

Steve Claridge
Selhurst Park on BBC Radio 5 live

On the Nedum Onuoha incident: "He almost bumps into him (the referee) doesn't he? You don't usually see Nedum Onuoha react like that, he's a calm young man. Onuoha is fouled by Dwight Gayle - another poor decision from the referee Lee Mason. That's what has got him riled."

In a truncated Premiership card, relegation-threatened St Mirren, Ross County and Partick Thistle go in search of much-needed points. Stuart McCall begins his stint as Rangers' third manager of the season, with the Championship's bottom club Livingston visiting Ibrox.

You can follow the action in our Scottish live page here.

Harsh yellow for QPR defender Nedum Onuoha as his leg tangles with Dwight Gayle. Onuoha turns away in disgust. Not many QPR fans saw that. Many have left and are on their way back across London.

Steve Claridge
Selhurst Park on BBC Radio 5 live

"We are playing out time here. Crystal Palace have completely shut down. Their two most influential players - Wilfried Zaha and Jason Puncheon - have been taken off and still QPR can't get a foothold in the game."

Charlie Austin looks like a man whose Cheltenham Gold Cup tip pulls up yards from the finishing post. Austin is hoping for an England call after 15 goals in 25 league games. He's done little to impress at Selhurst Park, although he has good reason to complain about the service.

Arsenal

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger makes five changes to the side that beat Manchester United in the FA Cup on Monday night. Olivier Giroud is among those returning in place of Danny Welbeck in attack.

West Ham, without a win in seven games, make four changes. Among those left out are on-loan Arsenal defender Carl Jenkinson, who is unable to face his parent club, and striker Enner Valencia who is out with a toe he cut standing on a tea cup.

Arsenal XI: Ospina, Chambers, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Ramsey, Walcott, Ozil, Sanchez, Giroud. Subs: Szczesny, Gibbs, Cazorla, Flamini, Welbeck, Akpom, Bellerin.

West Ham XI: Adrian, O'Brien, Collins, Kouyate, Cresswell, Song, Noble, Nolan (c), Jarvis, Downing, Sakho. Subs: Jaaskelainen, Demel, Onariase, Poyet, Cullen, Amalfitano, Nene.

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Strong stuff from former Liverpool and England striker Michael Owen on BT Sport as he labels QPR's display 'pathetic'. You're not wrong there, Michael.

Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew speaking to BT Sport: "We have a good set of players, players that had maybe lost their way a bit but we have recentered them. Good players get points, and that is what we've got.

"Thirty three points at this stage of the season would be a hell of an achievement. But QPR are fighting for their lives and they played really well in their last two games, but I'm surprised Zamora is not playing. That may work for them so we will have to prepared for the unexpected.

"It could be a game decided from the bench, Zamora could come on, we have Dwight Gayle, both managers have options. Our situation is not quite as desperate as QPR, so we'll see how it unfolds."

Recentered? That's a new one...

First goal of the day. And Middlesbrough's Daniel Ayala has given the hosts the lead over Ipswich. Will 'Boro be in the Premier League next season? They're now three points clear at the top of the 'as it stands' Championship table. Keep up to date with the latest from the Riverside with our live text commentary.

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It's Mother's Day weekend but QPR midfielder Shaun Wright-Phillips, starting today, is seeing reminders of his dad all over Selhurst Park. Photographs of Ian Wright hang from walls in the corridors at Palace where the former England striker scored 117 times in 277 appearances before moving to Arsenal. Wright-Phillips starts his first Premier League games of the season. Can he produce a match-winning display at a ground where his father is a hero?

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We want to know about the times when you've ever stepped in to play or referee at the last minute? It seems that lots of you have - and in the most unlikely and bizarre of circumstances.

Nomaan Ali, Rossendale: I was at the the New Hotel near Old Trafford, set up by Man United's class of '92. I was having a kick about with my brother on the roof top pitch and I couldn't believe it when Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville and Nicky Butt walked in and we had a kick about. It was amazing.

John, Durham: Was roped into play in an inter-village tournament in the Bolivian Andes. They slaughtered a llama before the tournament started then put me in goal as at 4000m I couldn't run. There was not a blade of grass on the ash pitch so at the downwind end players would emerge from a dust cloud in the penalty area with the ball. Biggest regret was failing to save enough penalties in the final shootout as the sun set behind the mountains.

Rob, Kent: The team we were meant to be playing in a Sunday League game didn't turn up and I helped out another team who had an outfield player in goal. I kept a clean sheet but managed to break my hand in the process. Was out for the rest of the season. My team was not happy with me.

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Chris Ramsey says he would rather lose his job at the end of the season than see QPR go down. The Hoops boss takes charge of his sixth top-flight game since Harry Redknapp quit.

"You know results keep you in a job," says Ramsey, who has one win and four defeats in his five league games in charge. "I'd accept now keeping QPR up and not keeping my job though.

"All the games are must win for us. Everyone is fighting. We know we have to win games soon or we will get detached."

What's happened to the weather? Last Saturday sunglasses and sun cream were required at Loftus Road. At Selhurst Park the players are out on the pitch warming up wearing gloves. At least one is wearing a snood.

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BBC Sport

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