– Alan Pardew joined Palace shortly after leaving Newcastle in December 2014.
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Yohan Cabaye will lead his Crystal Palace side again this weekend as the Eagles face a struggling Newcastle team at home.
The Eagles have been impressive this season and have produced some of the most exciting attacking football, however, only one win in the last five games has seen them slip down to 10th place.
“But we have to find a solution at home and we have another chance on Saturday to see if we can”. That being said I don’t think that they will win. Vurnon Anita feels the trip to Palace is a must-win match for McClaren’s men, who slumped to a 3-0 home defeat against league-leading Leicester City last weekend. Plenty of things are not going well in the Magpies team, and they seem destined for another relegation scrap which saw them narrowly avoid relegation on the final day of 2014/2015 season.
De Jong is pushing for his first Premier League start of the season at Selhurst Park, having had a 90-minute run-out for the club’s Under-21s on Monday. Due to injury, he is yet to feature this term.
However, Sunderland’s win means that both they and Bournemouth are only one point behind Newcastle now and if either of them were to get a point and Newcastle lost, then United would drop back into the relegation zone.
Tiote, who has played 124 Premier League games for Newcastle, is expected to miss out on the trip along with teammates Tim Krul, Steven Taylor and Jack Colback.
Palace have not beaten Newcastle in any of their last 11 encounters.
Alan Pardew insists Crystal Palace will not be short of striking options for Saturday’s Premier League clash with old club Newcastle despite injuries depleting his squad.
Of Crystal Palace’s 27 BPL goals this season, 20 have come in the second half (74%).
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Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha. He won 37 per cent of league games as boss of the Magpies.
