Jack Clarke makes his first Premier League start of the season as the Blues take on Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park as manager Gary O'Neil names an otherwise unchanged XI.

Clarke comes in for Daizen Maeda on the left of the attack with the Japanese international dropping to the bench.

There are further changes on the bench with Darnell Furlong and Kasey McAteer absent and Jaden Philogene, back from his ankle injury, and Chuba Akpom coming into the 20.

For Palace, keeper Dean Henderson is missing from the squad with Walter Benitez starting and making his second Premier League appearance having kept a clean sheet in the 3-0 Carabao Cup victory over Middlesbrough in midweek.

Centre-half Jaydee Canvot is also absent with new loan signing Honest Ahanor replacing him and making his Premier League debut, also having played in the Carabao Cup tie against Boro.

Striker Eddie Nketiah is also not in the squad with Jorgen Strand Larsen replacing him in the XI.

Palace: Benitez, Kalaili, Richards, Disasi, Ahanor, Mitchell, Wharton, Timber, Pino, Kamada, Strand Larsen. Subs: Matthews, Tomiyasu, Mingueza, Doucoure, Lerma, Chilwell, Hughes, Gozo, McNeil. 

Town: Scherpen, O’Shea (c), Diop, Greaves, Davis, Lukic, Palacios, Fatawu, Enciso, Clarke, Emersonn. Subs: Walton, Kipre, Ouattara, Florentino, Nunez, Philogene, Maeda, Akpom, Flemming. Referee: Chris Kavanagh (Lancashire). Assistants: Dan Cook and Bhupinder Singh Gill. Fourth official: Tim Robinson. VAR: Craig Pawson. Assistant: Adrian Holmes.

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