Crystal Palace vs Southampton - live: Follow updates as Roy Hodgson returns against Mauricio Pellegrino's Saints

It's Roy's return! Good morning and welcome to The Independent's live coverage of Crystal Palace's home match with Southampton.

Let's look at how the two teams line up at Selhurst Park...

...and Roy Hodgson makes just one change to the Crystal Palace team that Frank de Boer named in his fourth and final game in charge of the Eagles. Lee Chung-Yong had a disastrous outing in last Sunday's 1-0 defeat at Turf Moor and drops to the bench this afternoon to make way for Chelsea loanee Ruben Loftus-Cheek. In midfield, James McArthur makes his 100th appearance for the South London club.

Mauricio Pellegrino, meanwhile, makes four changes to the side that started the 2-0 home defeat to Watford last weekend. Maya Yoshida comes into the defence, Dusan Tadic and club record signing, Mario Lemina, move into the midfield while Shane Long returns up; Jack Stephens, James Ward-Prowse, Sofiane Boufal and Manolo Gabbiadini all drop to the bench. Perhaps the biggest news in the Southampton ranks, however, is the fact that those four substitutes will be joined in the dugout by Virgil van Disk. The Dutch centre-back is named in a Saints squad for the first time this season after a desired move to Liverpool failed to materialise.

Crystal Palace: Hennessey, Ward, Dann, Fosu-Mensah, Schlupp, Cabaye, Puncheon, Loftus-Cheek, McArthur, Townsend, Benteke

Subs: Speroni, Van Aanholt, Milivojevic, Tomkins, Lee, Sako, Kelly

Southampton: Forster, Cedric, Yoshida, Hoedt, Bertrand, Romeu, Lemina, Davis, Tadic, Redmond, Long

Subs: McCarthy, Stephens, Van Dijk, Targett, Ward-Prowse, Boufal, Gabbiadini

Referee: Robert Madley

"Calm down, I'm back." Virgin van Dijk returns to the Southampton squad this afternoon. 

Too long in the tooth or the vast experience that Crystal Palace need?

Still, the former Fulham, West Brom and England boss is in good septuagenarian company.

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Sky Sports drop a high-quality stat bomb ahead of kick-off at Selhurst Park.

Dusan Tadic is the only player in either starting XI to have scored a Premier League goal this season.

Let's get the ball to him then, shall we?

In fact, if Tadic doesn't manage to make an impact on this contest, we may as well leave the scoreboard looking like this.

Roy Hodgson has been speaking ahead of kick-off in his first game in charge at Selhurst Park...

We believe in the players, but there’s only one way to really prove that you’re a good team and that’s out on the field.

We're nearly ready for game that already can be classed as huge in relation to Crystal Palace's season.

Without a win, without a point and without a goal, the bottom-of-the-table Eagles are already playing catch up on the Premier League teams after Bournemouth's victory last night. A victory would at least bring them level with three other clubs.

Southampton's season hasn't really got going yet either, but three points here would take them into fifth spot ahead of the afternoon's three o'clock fixtures.

​Kick-off is next.

KICK-OFF: Roy Hodgson - Crystal Palace's fourth manager in the past seven months - watches on as his new side get Saturday's Premier League matches underway, and immediately get to it by getting up and at Southampton. Pushing down both flanks, a cross finds Jason Puncheon in the box but the former Saint is unable to take full control of the ball against his former club.

6 mins: GOAL! CRYSTAL PALACE 0 SOUTHAMPTON 1:

That promising, high-tempo start from the home side did not last long! Indeed, since those opening seconds it had been Southampton in control, and now they have an early lead. Dusan Tadic darted inside the box and towards his touchline from where he let fly with a fizzed cross-cum-shot. Wayne Hennessey was equal to it, but made the mistake of pushing the ball back into the danger area of the 18-yard box. With the Crystal Palace goalkeeper grounded and his defenders slow to react, Steven Davis arrived to sidefoot the loose ball into the bottom corner past the wrongfooted Joel Ward.