Swansea close to a second! Corner whipped in, flicked on at the near post and almost turned in by a sliding Andre Ayew at the back stick. Not much for Alan Pardew to smile about so far.

Jermaine Jenas
Ex-Spurs & England midfielder on Final Score

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"Emmanuel Adebayor, who I know from our time together at Spurs, is a good player when he is on his game. 

"The key is to keep playing him, not drop him when he has one bad game. You'll get rewards in the end, because he has too much quality. He scores on average a goal every three games in the Premier League."

Pape Souare wangs over a high cross from the left, and Emmanuel Adebayor goes up for it, but the referee decides he's fouled Swansea keeper Lukas Fabianski.

Angel Rangel is getting a lot of space to rampage forward from right-back. He tries to slip a pass into Gylfi Sigurdsson but it's just behind the midfielder.

It's all going Pete Tong for Palace at the moment. Jordon Mutch tries a pass in the centre of the park that just rolls to no-one in particular and allows Swansea to regain possession. Sloppy.

Chance! Yohan Cabaye curls in a free-kick from the right, and Emmanuel Adebayor leaps like a salmon to get his head on it. The Togolese striker can't keep the effort down though.

Could have been two! Paloschi curls in an inviting cross, Hennessey hurls himself at it and succeeds only in diverting the ball to Andre Ayew, whose shot is blocked with the goal gaping. Palace living dangerously.

Jermaine Jenas
Ex-Spurs & England midfielder on Final Score

"How can Hennessey be beaten on his near side? It's infuriating. He took a step to one side, just a guess, and he just didn't need to."

Palace don't deal with the corner, and end up conceding a dangerous free-kick through Emmanuel Adebayor. This looks a real tempter for the likes of Ayew or Sigurdsson...

Angel Rangel is allowed to canter down the right and float in an inviting cross, but Joel Ward is there to take it off the head of Wayne Routledge at the last moment. Corner.

Gylfi Sigurdsson tries a cheeky reverse pass into the area, but Pape Souare sniffs out the danger and boots clear. Swansea on top so far, Palace looking to hit on the counter.

Terrific centre-forward play from Emmanuel Adebayor as he brings down a long punt from Damien Delaney, turns and threads an inch-perfect through-ball into the path of Wilfried Zaha. The winger can't quite get a shot away.

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Wilfried Zaha, who was excellent for Palace in their midweek defeat by Bournemouth, skins his full-back down the right and sends in a cross, which Lee Chung-yong wallops over the bar.

Swansea looking the more lively so far. Jack Cork whips a cross in from the right, but he can't find Alberto Paloschi in the middle.

Swansea, kicking from right to left, get us under way.

Right, we're almost ready to go. Both sides in their traditional colours today, Swansea in white, Palace in red and blue and stripes.

Francesco Guidolin knows Emmanuel Adebayor well having managed him at Monaco between 2005 and 2006.

"He is a good player and a good striker," Guidolin said. "I don't know his condition but he is a player with many qualities.

"He is a modern striker and when he was younger I saw these qualities at Monaco. He is dangerous to us."

Alan Pardew says his team are missing key players - but that he expects other members of the squad to step up.

"We have lost two very important players in [James] McArthur and [Jason] Puncheon - they have both been having a wonderful season for us, so it is a significant blow," he said.

"We have got a squad where one or two really do need to produce for us - Jordon Mutch is going to be in the frame, Chungy [Lee Chung-yong] is going to be in the frame too as I put more pressure on them to deliver."