The ball is fired up towards Ashley Barnes but James Tomkins is in quickly to head clear.

The brief break in play gives Scott Dann the opportunity to drop to the ground and I think that earlier tackle by Robbie Brady is still being felt.

The centre-half could be coming off.

Right on cue...

Dwight McNeil picks up the ball just outside the Palace area and he fires a shot at goal.

It's a comfortable save for Vicente Guaita but it's the first effort on target in the game.

It can only get better from here.

That tackle on Scott Dann is the only thing the home crowd have had to cheer so far.

It remains a cagey affair and we are yet to see a shot on target.

Robbie Brady wins the ball in a firm challenge with Scott Dann.

The Palace defender remains on the ground momentarily and the Irishman orders Dann off the turf.

The crowd enjoyed that one on the former Blackburn player.

Jack Cork hits across the ball from 25 yards out but it fails to really threaten Vicente Guaita in the Palace goal.

That was the hosts' first shot at goal.

Ben Mee is lying on the turf after an aerial challenge with Jordan Ayew.

It looks like the Burnley defender makes contact with the back of Ayew's head, as they compete for the ball, but he returns to his feet and the game continues.

As you were...

Both teams are just trying to box clever at the moment and neither side are yet to really influence the tempo.

Cagey.

Robbie Brady, who replaces the suspended Ashley Westwood, wins a throw-in for his side inside the Palace half.

There's just a steady flow to the game in the early stages.

Luka Milivojevic fires his free-kick above the bar but that's an early warning for the hosts.

The visitors venture down the other end early on and Wilfried Zaha wins a free-kick on the edge of the area after a strong tackle by James Tarkowski.

This would do wonders for Palace's confidence early on.

And we're underway...

Right then, both sets of players have followed the officials out onto the pitch.

Hands have been shaken and we're all set to go...

Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson on taking one point from a possible 15: "I don't think you should confuse form with results.

"Our form hasn't particularly dipped... We have had five tough fixtures and I don't think we've performed badly in any of them, but of course because we've been playing the top sides we've been unable to get many points.

"But we've been close to doing so on many occasions so I would not equate form and results."

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Burnley

Burnley manager Sean Dyche: "I've never been one for staring at the league table. We focus the players on the next challenge, which obviously is Palace.

"They're a good side. We know they're effective on the counter, they can absorb when they have to. Organised, of course - Roy [Hodgson's] teams always are.

"We're really pleased that we come off that big result away [at Watford] but we know we've got to perform."

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Alistair Mann
MOTD commentator

Burnley's recent form has moved them stealthily into the top seven but nobody at Turf Moor is getting carried away; they are, after all, as many points off fourth-placed Chelsea as they are ahead of Norwich in 18th.

The visitors may, by contrast, have been winless in their last five games but a victory this weekend would still put them level on points with the Clarets. Oddly, this is the first time

Crystal Palace have left London since August, when they were victorious at Old Trafford. Having won five of their past six league trips outside of the capital (including at Turf Moor in March), they'll surely arrive in Lancashire with genuine self-belief.

Burnley are forced into one change from the side that beat Watford in their last outing.

Robbie Brady comes into midfield for the suspended Ashley Westwood.

Burnley: Pope, Bardsley, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor, Hendrick, Brady, Cork, McNeil, Wood, Barnes

Subs: Hart, Lowton, Drinkwater, Gibson, Rodriguez, Pieters, Lennon

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Crystal Palace make just two changes from the side that lost to Liverpool last weekend.

Defenders Joel Ward and Gary Cahill are both out with knee injuries, so Martin Kelly and Scott Dann step in.

Crystal Palace: Guaita, Van Aanholt, Kelly, Tomkins, Dann, Kouyate, Milivojevic, McArthur, Townsend, Zaha, Ayew

Subs: Hennessey, Sakho, Schlupp, Benteke, McCarthy, Camarasa, Riedewald

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