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.
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.