That is a very congested left flank for Palace - look how many players are gathering to play off striker Marouane Chamakh...

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A blow for Palace. Winger Yohan Cabaye is booked for a high challenge on Jack Cork - with whom he had a little contretemps a few moments ago, you might recall. It's Cabaye's fifth booking of the season, and so he will miss next weekens's match against Chelsea. Ouch.

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Excellent piece of defending by Palace captain Scott Dann, who times his challenge perfectly to dispossess Modou Barrow as he surges in from the right.

Lukasz Fabianski is already taking his time over goal-kicks. We have played 29 minutes. I hope this isn't going to be the pattern for the rest of the afternoon, because if it is, I'm going home now.

Palace playing the ball around with patience, but Swansea are proving tough to break down at the moment. Wilfried Zaha bursts towards the edge of the Swansea penalty area, before running into a crowd of defenders.

At the other end, Jonjo Shelvey plays a smart pass through the centre of the home defence, which is just too far ahead of Marvin Emnes. Nice idea.

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Referee Neil Swarbrick is having to be on his toes to keep order here. Swansea midfielder Jack Cork fouls Yohan Cabaye to concede a free-kick, then claims to have received an arm in the face in return. Swarbrick effectively tells both players to get over themselves.

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Wilfried Zaha whips the ball into the near post after working the corner short, but Lukasz Fabianski punches clear.

After their early uncertainty at the back - totally understandable, given the number of changes - Swansea are starting to settle down a bit. Palace break down the left, though, and win their first corner...

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A bit of a confrontation between Swansea centre-back Jordi Amat and Palace winger Wilfried Zaha, after what looked a fairly innocuous challenge. Nothing too serious, though - just a bit of eyeballing and a little shove by Amat on Zaha. All quickly forgotten.

Swansea on the defensive early on; a promising burst down the right by Wilfried Zaha comes to nothing, and the visitors are left scrambling to clear after Mile Jedinak's header across goal causes problems. I do wonder, with eight changes, if Swansea's players may need a little bit of time to get used to playing alongside each other.

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Mark Lawrenson
Ex-Liverpool defender

Yannick Bolasie is out for Crystal Palace and he is a massive loss. He is such a good player and supplier, and he is a beast of a man. He's very difficult to stop, he unhinges defences.

Swansea's win over West Brom will do them the power of good and they can go and nick a point. They still haven't got a manager but they just needed a game where they got a bit of luck and they did that on Boxing Day.

Lawro's prediction: 1-1

We're off and running at Selhurst Park.

Swansea midfielder Jonjo Shelvey: "We needed a win on Saturday. It was important to get three points and we can really kick on.

"I don't think we've been playing great football this season, but Curts [caretaker manager Alan Curtis] has got us back to the way we're playing. We had a great performance at Manchester City, but lost that game. It was important to start getting the points. I would take playing rubbish and winning 1-0 all the time.

"Palace have got some tremendous players. The signing of Yohan Cabaye speaks volumes for where they want to go."

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Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew: "We're a little light at the top of the pitch because of injuries, but I've brought in experience players.

"It's been a long wait for Marouane Chamakh this year because he's been injured. We hope we can get half a season out of him."

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Swansea caretaker-manager Alan Curtis: "We knew the workload that was involved and the fixture programme. It was a tough game on Saturday, and we picked up three or four niggly injuries. A couple of the boys probably needed a rest. It's far more changes that we wanted to make, but I'm sure the boys who come in will do a job.

"We've got people who can come on and contribute later on if we need them to. 

"We could get some momentum with a win. But they flip side of that is that if we lose a couple of games, then perhaps there becomes a more pressing need to get somebody in a little quicker."

It's worth pointing out that Swansea's starting line-up contains three players - defender Jordi Amat, midfielder Matt Grimes and striker Marvin Emnes - who have not played a single minute of Premier League football this season.

Caretaker-manager Alan Curtis explains why...

For Swansea, only goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski, captain Ashley Williams and full-back Neil Taylor remain from the starting line-up that beat West Brom on Saturday.

Swansea XI: Fabianski, Amat, Williams, Grimes, Taylor, Cork, Shelvey, Naughton, Emnes, Barrow, Gomis. 

Subs: Ki, Ayew, Nordfeldt, Montero, Sigurdsson, Bartley, Kingsley.

Let's take a look at the line-ups for you. The two Alans, Pardew and Curtis, are making full use of their squads for this one. There are changes galore at Selhurst Park - Crystal Palace have made four, Swansea eight.

Marouane Chamakh makes his first start of the season in attack for Palace, having had a long struggle back to fitness following a thigh problem.

Crystal Palace XI: Hennessey, Ward, Dann, Hangeland, Souare, Jedinak, McArthur, Zaha, Cabaye, Puncheon, Chamakh.   

Subs: Speroni, Bamford, Campbell, Lee, Mutch, Ledley, Kelly.