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A game both of these teams' fans have been waiting for.

Brighton are in their best form of the season and looking to put some distance between themselves and Fulham.

Palace on the other hand are trying to improve their record without Wilfried Zaha.

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Brighton boss Graham Potter sticks with the side that started the 0-0 against Aston Villa on 13 February.

Alireza Jahanbakhsh, who recently returned to training after a hamstring complaint, makes the bench.

Brighton XI: Sanchez, White, Dunk, Burn, Veltman, Gross, Bissouma, Alzate, Mac Allister, Trossard, Maupay.

Subs: Steele, Connolly, Lallana, Moder, Jahanbakhsh, Welbeck, Tau, Propper, Zeqiri

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Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson makes five changes to the side that began their 3-0 defeat at home to Burnley on 13 February.

Gary Cahill, Joel Ward, Andros Townsend, Jean-Philippe Mateta and Tyrick Mitchell all come in as Patrick van Aanholt, Scott Dann, Nathaniel Clyne, Christian Benteke and Michy Batshuayi drop to the bench.

James McCarthy, who hasn't played this month because of a groin injury, has passed a fitness test and also starts as a substitute.

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita, Ward, Cahill, Kouyate, Mitchell, Riedewald, Milivojevic, Eze, Townsend, Mateta, Ayew

Subs: Butland, Clyne, Dann, Van Aanholt, Benteke, McCarthy, Batshuayi, Kelly

Brighton are unchanged.

Palace make five changes with Gary Cahill, Joel Ward, Andros Townsend, Jean-Philippe Mateta and Tyrick Mitchell all starting.

Full team news to follow.

We all know football's big rivalries - Manchester United-Liverpool, Celtic-Rangers, Oxford-Swindon.

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This is one of English football's unlikeliest rivalries.

The clubs are 45 miles apart but their beef dates back to an FA Cup tie in 1976 - with Palace winning the second replay 1-0.

Crystal Palace were managed by Terry Venables and Brighton were led by Alan Mullery - former Spurs team-mates who did not get on.

Mullery claims Palace fans poured a pot of boiling coffee onto him - so in return "I pulled a handful of change out of my pocket, threw it on the floor and shouted, 'That's all you're worth, Crystal Palace'."

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