Crystal Palace v Leeds – Premier League

48 min: Everyone seems to have calmed down after that pre-interval tension, which is good/bad.

47 min: … it comes to nothing.

46 min: Raphinha has half a chance out of nowhere but Ward sticks to his task well. Corner to Leeds though …

Peep! Off we go again. Leeds have made a half-time substitution: Robin Koch replaces Klich.

Peep! PEEEEP!! And with the narkiness increasing the referee brings a halt to proceedings. Tons of intensity, a nice high tempo … but not that much in the way of goalmouth action.

Palace manager Patrick Vieira remonstrates with fourth official Graham Scott . Photograph: Tony Obrien/Reuters

Updated at 15.52 EDT

45 min: Andersen quite rightly goes into the book for a thunking challenge on Rodrigo.

44 min: Raphinha is penalised as he can-cans his leg up to neck height as Ward heads clear. That sparks more grumbling from those in red and blue. Half-time looming is a bit of a shame as it’s all getting a little spicy.

42 min: Patrick Vieira is particularly unimpressed.

41 min: Zaha straight-arms Raphinha to hold on to the ball – the scream from the Leeds man is audible – and Palace fume as the officials award the visitors a free-kick.

39 min: Dallas does superbly down the Leeds left … until his cross floats behind for a goal-kick.

37 min: Zaha again tumbles down under a heavy Ayling challenge – the Leeds man should probably be in the book by now – but play goes on. Mateta can’t quite get on the end of the eventual cross.

36 min: Leeds’ turn to get on the front foot. Dallas and Harrison win their team a corner on the left … but Ward does well to deny Rodrigo space and the chance disappears.

34 min: … Mateta gets his head on the end of this one but it’s straight at Meslier.

32 min: … Eze’s whipped cross from the set piece is headed away but Gallagher gets the ball back into the danger zone and sparks a scramble which end with Eze’s shot being blocked. But Zaha goes down again on the left and has his team another free-kick.

31 min: Zaha is upended on the Palace left and wins a free-kick …

30 min: This, at times, has threatened to spark into a belting contest but hasn’t really caught fire in all honesty.

28 min: Raphina’s long (ish) through is backheeled to the edge of the area by Cooper, but Ayew is out quickly to block Dallas’s effort.

26 min: … Cooper gets on the end of it but he can only head the ball straight at Guaita. Probably Leeds’ best chance of the game so far.

25 min: Harrison does well down the Leeds left and clips his cross at McArthur. Corner …

24 min: Leeds horrendously lose the ball inside their own half and Zaha has the opportunity to slip Mateta through – but his pass is too heavy and Meslier collects.

22 min: And the ball is immediately whacked forward for James to chase. He finds Harrison, whose shot is blocked at source.

21 min: Zaha gets free down the left for perhaps the first time in the game but a bevy of Leeds defenders get back to smother the danger.

19 min: … Eze whips the set-piece in but Llorente is there to nod clear.

18 min: Cooper catches Gallagher as the Palace midfielder charges in after a bouncing ball. Free-kick to the home side in a dangerous area …

17 min: Rodrigo looks to find the onrushing Ayling but his pass into the area is much too heavy.

15 min: What a chance! Ayew is released down the right channel (clearly a plan from Palace this) by Gallagher. His low cross finds Mateta at the back post, who shins wide with the goal gaping. It looks like Llorente, sliding in front of the striker, got a slight touch but that’s still big miss from Mateta.

Jean-Philippe Mateta fails to connect to a cross from Jordan Ayew. Photograph: Ashley Western/Colorsport/REX/Shutterstock

Updated at 15.23 EDT

13 min: Andersen ends the next Leeds attack and the sides play a bit of hot-potato with the ball.

10 min: Palace make a meal out of clearing their lines before Gallagher tidies up and gets them on the front foot. Clyne gets free on the overlap and looks to find Zaha who just for a second seems to have got ahead of his marker. His header loops gently to Meslier though.

8 min: It’s fairly frantic, scrappy stuff so far, with neither side hesitating to get the ball forward. There’s something a bit retro about it, in a good way.

6 min: Zaha and Ward combine neatly down the Palace left, with the latter hoiking a cross towards Mateta. Meslier is more decisive this time, though, and claims confidently.

Updated at 15.06 EDT

4 min: Meslier hesitates as Clyne punts a ball over the top into that right channel again and Mateta is in. He attempts to dink the ball over the keeper but can’t get enough mustard on the effort and Llorente is able to get back to clear.

3 min: James looks to scamper into the Palace box but he’s quickly crowded out. Neither side look particularly interested in playing keep-ball this evening.

1 min: A high-energy start as Palace look to slip Ayew down the right channel. The atmosphere at Selhurst is excallent as ever.

PEEP! Off we go then!

Click-clack, click-clack … the players are in the tunnel in that corner of Selhurst.

A pre-match email from Harriet Osborn: “Leeds supporters might take heart from the recent record of Vieira v Marsch meetings- they coached either side of a nasty derby in MLS and Marsch’s RBNY side were clearly on top through the majority of those meetings. Might we get another 7-0 shellacking of Vieira’s boys today?”

A bit of pre-match listening: here’s today’s Football Weekly pod.

The lineups

Crystal Palace (4-2-3-1): Guaita; Ward, Andersen, Guehi, Clyne; McArthur, Gallagher; Eze, Ayew, Zaha; Mateta.Subs: Butland, Tomkins, Olise, Kouyate, Hughes, Schlupp, Benteke, Edouard, Kelly.

Leeds (4-2-3-1): Meslier; Ayling, Llorente, Cooper, Dallas; Klich, Phillips; Raphinha, Rodrigo, Harrison; James.Subs: Firpo, Koch, Klaesson, Struijk, Bate, Gelhardt, Cresswell, Greenwood, Kenneh.

Referee: Darren England (South Yorkshire)

Preamble

Hello all and welcome to what could be a nervy night at Selhurst. Leeds, despite three wins in their last four, arrive in south London feeling a little twitchier than they might have done a couple of weeks ago. Burnley’s mini-renaissance means Jesse Marsch’s side are just four points clear of 18th-placed Everton but with a hideous goal difference and with Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea looming after this fixture. They should be fine but things would look a lot rosier with a win at Selhurst Park this evening.

It would take something very strange, meanwhile, to see Palace dragged back into trouble though after back-to-back defeats in the league they’re still a win or so away from absolute safety.

The last time Leeds visited this part of the capital they dominated the ball but were spanked 4-1 and indeed you have to go back to March 2006 for their last win at Selhurst, when Kevin Blackwell’s Leeds beat Iain Dowie’s Eagles 2-1. Marsch could go a long way to soothing the post-Bielsa hangover by ending that 16-year wait.

Kick-off is 8pm BST.

Updated at 14.02 EDT