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Hodgson explains Palace's five changes v Villa

Speaking with Sky Sports before Crystal Palace face Aston Villa, Roy Hodgson explained each of his five changes to the starting XI.

Of the tweaks from the side which kicked-off against Southampton, Hodgson has handed Jack Butland his Premier League debut in a Palace shirt.

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He discussed the reason behind this, as well as the reason two key players are absent from the squad:

"We’ve lost two players to family issues unfortunately. Both Luka Milivojevic and Patrick van Aanholt have family issues which meant they couldn’t take part in today’s game.