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title: "Crystal Palace Predicted XI: Watford (H)"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Michael Oliver"
section: "Match Day"
published: "2017-12-12T11:54:29Z"
modified: "2017-12-12T11:54:29Z"
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# Crystal Palace Predicted XI: Watford (H)

Roy Hodgson has certainly steadied the ship at Crystal Palace over the last month or so.

Following their hard-fought draw against Bournemouth last weekend, the Eagles have extended their unbeaten run in the Premier League to five games, unfortunately that run on includes one win but they’ve developed a hard-to-beat formula of late.

Still rooted to the bottom of the table, Palace are now within touching distance of safety and they have begun to turn Selhurst Park into a bit of a fortress in recent weeks as they prepare to welcome Watford to south London.

Palace have been dealt a huge blow with defender Mamadou Sakho being ruled out for several weeks due to a calf injury, while Joel Ward is also set to miss out.

Hodgson may be forced to shake up his defence and with that in mind, here is our predicted XI.