So far, this is an absolute dog, neither side able to create much. It might improve, but equally, it might not.

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The Guardian has kicked off a new chapter in puzzles with the launch of its first daily football game, On the ball. It is now live in the app for both iOS and Android … so what are you waiting for?

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Brighton & Hove Albion (4-3-3): Verbruggen; Kadioglu, Boscagli, Dunk, De Cuyper; Baleba, Gross, Howell; Rutter, Kostoulas, Mitoma. Subs: Julio, Minteh, Hinshelwood, Welbeck, Milner, Steele, Gómez, O’Riley, Veltman.

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Crystal Palace (3-4-2-1): Henderson; Richards, Lacroix, Lerma; Munoz, Hughes, Wharton, Mitchell; Sarr, Pino; Strand Larsen. Subs: Johnson, Uche, Clyne, Kamada, Canvot, Sosa, Guessand, Riad, Benitez.

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Referee: Thomas Bramall (Sheffield)

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What is is about football that incites antipathy? It’s not enough to love yourself; rather that sensation must necessarily be juxtaposed against who you hate, identity a representation of who you aren’t almost as much as who you are.

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Which is one reason why clubs who can’t rely on geography to deliver them a natural rival find another way – Brighton and Crystal Palace, for example, battling for supremacy of the much-coveted M23 corridor. Of course, there’s a pretext – some mid-70s competition between teams who’d previously not played each other much, followed by mid-to-late 70s animus between their respective managers, Terry Venables and Alan Mullery, former teammates with incompatible egos. But as much as anything, this contest reflects the basic human desire to hate, the beautiful game much the richer for it.

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And today’s edition offers plenty of scope for fun in that vein. Palace are on a dreadful run, without a league victory since the first week of December, just six points off the relegation zone. Yes, there are reasons for that, but at this stage it barely matters: West Ham are playing well and winning while they are playing poorly and losing, with the two teams in between, Forest and Leeds, looking just about good enough to escape the drop. It’s not desperate yet, but it could get there and quickly.

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So can Brighton embrace tradition and kick them when they’re down? Though it’s been a mixed season for Fabian Hürzeler’s men, as things stand now they’re still in the FA Cup and still in the fight for a European spot, just about. They’ve not won a league game since the start of January and that was at home to Burnley, but in that time, they’ve drawn at Manchester City and won at Manchester United, which tells us they’ve got performances in them. They’ll be desperate to produce one today, to improve their own situation – but just as importantly, to compound Palace’s.

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Kick-off: 2pm GMT

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48 minutos Howell intentó pasar a Lacroix, quien le tocó el hombro.

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