MANAGER Ivan Juric suggested he will make changes to his lineup when Saints visit Crystal Palace on Sunday.

The Croatian left top goalscorer Cameron Archer on the bench for Southampton's 1-0 defeat to West Ham on Boxing Day but insisted he will be better suited in other games.

Tyler Dibling also dropped to the bench for fitness reasons and could be handed his first start under Juric at Selhurst Park.

Speaking on Thursday, the 49 year old told the Daily Echo: “I will see tomorrow. My idea was to make changes.

“I spoke before about having 18 or 19 players, to be always competitive, aggressive and play with high intensity. We have to be fit.

“We have seen that some of the changes, like Lesley (Ugochukwu) and Big Paul (Onuachu), have had a very good game."

He continued: "My idea of football is pragmatic, I grew up in Italy. My idea is to win the game. To win the game, we need to find a way to win it.

"There is no 'I like this or that'. I want to win the game. Against West Ham, we didn't win but the team did really, really good.

"Paul Onuachu can give us a lot of things but I really believe it will be better sometimes for Cameron Archer (to play) depending on the game.

Ivan Juric during Southampton's Premier League defeat to West Ham on Boxing Day. (Image: Stuart Martin) Juric explained that he is already well acquainted with how Crystal Palace play because he enjoys watching Oliver Glasner's side.

He quipped that he could steal some of the Austrian's ideas due to both managers favouring similar systems.

"I was watching Crystal Palace a lot because their coach (Glasner) is one of the coaches I like watching because he plays 3-4-3," he said.

"There are some situations that maybe I can steal. I know a lot about them. They have very good and fast strikers."They play good. I think so but I am very confident that we can play a good game."

Palace currently sit 16th in the Premier League having lost just one of their last seven fixtures.

They have drawn four of those games, including their Boxing Day trip to AFC Bournemouth, which finished 0-0 at the Vitality Stadium.

The Eagles lost club captain Marc Guehi in that game to suspension after the England international picked up his fifth booking of the campaign.

Players who receive five yellow cards in the first 19 games receive a one-match suspension. Adam Lallana, Adam Armstrong and Mateus Fernandes are all at risk of a ban should they be booked against Palace.

The threshold for suspensions is then lifted to 10 yellow cards in the first 32 games, which earns players a two-match ban. Flynn Downes (seven yellows) is already approaching that mar.k