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Saturday’s 2-1 defeat to Burnley at The Hawthorns was West Brom’s ninth setback in a row in all competitions, while the Baggies currently sit 10 points adrift at the bottom of the Premier League table.

Palace lost their last game 3-2 against Burnley and will be without goalkeeper Steve Mandanda, who is out for two weeks with injury. The Eagles scored two goals against Liverpool in the previous game but are unable to keep the ball off the back of their net, something Pardew has to drill into his players

Manuel Pellegrini will most likely look back at the midweek Premier League fixtures as a missed opportunity for his side in the title race.
With Arsenal dropping points and Tottenham Hotspur losing, victory for City would have seen them move above the Gunners on goal difference and be just one point off the top of the table

The hosts came into the match on the back of the three-game losing streak but it was they who started the brighter, and they had a chance to open the scoring inside the first minute when Matteo Darmian’s poor touch allowed Dwight Gayle to fire at David de Gea from the edge of the box

Carver has been thrust into the interim role following the departure of Alan Pardew, who was confirmed as the new Crystal Palace manager last weekend after the two Premier League clubs agreed a compensation package

The 53-year-old was back on Tyneside on Tuesday, entering the club’s academy via a side entrance, to bid farewell to the squad who he had steered into mid-table in the Premier League after a dismal start. The announcement he has returned to Palace, his first professional club but a side languishing in the relegation zone, on a four-year contract worth around £2m-a-season is anticipated on Wednesday

The Brazil 2014 World Cup-bound Ameobi, who was handed a senior debut by former manager, Sir Bobby Robson, as a teenager, said: “Following discussions with Newcastle United, both parties felt it was the right time for us to part company