Fulham vs Crystal Palace: Preview and predicted line-ups

TEAM NEWS

Fulham: The 'Cottagers' have made 12 new additions over the summer, with Calum Chambers, Fabri and Jean Michael Seri all expected to make their debuts on Saturday. £20m summer signing Alfie Mawson is sidelined until September with a knee injury, while Denis Odoi is suspended following a sending-off in the play-off final against Aston Villa. 

Crystal Palace: Wickham, Williams and Dann will all miss out for the 'Eagles' due to injuries, and Deadline Day addition Jordan Ayew is a doubt after a lack of match fitness. 

Jokanovic: "We arrived last in the Premier League, so our principal target has to be to stay up. I prefer walking step by step. It's better for us to think in this way and we will see at the end of the season what our level is."

Hodgson: "I think we have enough players now including a couple that have come back off loans, Jonny Williams and Sullay Kaikai, which further expands the squad and Scott Dann is making tremendous progress. So we should have a more than big enough squad of players and most importantly of all, we have kept those players who did so well for us last season after such a bad start and helped us to such a decent finish in the league."

DID YOU KNOW? 

Crystal Palace have not won at Craven Cottage since a 3-2 triumph in the second tier in 1986.

13 goals have been scored in the last three matches between the clubs.

Fulham have kept clean sheets in each of their past five Premier League opening fixtures and have not lost an opening day home fixture since a 2-1 third tier defeat by Tranmere in 1989.

SCORE PREDICTION: 2-1 Fulham

FULHAM PREDICTED XI: Fabri, Fosu-Mensah, Chambers, Ream, Bryan, McDonald, Seri, Cairney, Schurrle, Mitrovic, Sessegnon

CRYSTAL PALACE PREDICTED XI: Hennessey, Wan-Bissaka, Tomkins, Sakho, Van Aanholt, Townsend, Milivojevic, McArthur, Schlupp, Zaha, Benteke