Julian is expecting a tough encounter this evening as he prepares for the visit of Leicester City.

The Foxes travel to Selhurst tonight in fifth place and on the back of a run of one defeat in ten games, and the Palace keeper is predicting that Nigel Pearson's men will not be shy in coming forward and attempting to stamp their own style on the match.

He told www.cpfc.co.uk: "I expect them to try and win the game. They are not going to sit back, they are going to come and play their own game and try to win.

"They have a good chance to qualify for the Play Offs this year so they need the points for different reasons, so it is going to be tough. I don't think there is going to be an easy game for us between now and the end of the season."

"But it is always good for the morale to win games and tonight is going to be no exception. We will be going out there to win and then see if we can start a good run from there.

"The thing is we have a lot of games together, something like two games a week until the first week of April, and there is not long to go until the end of the season so we have to put in everything we have and try to take as many points as we can."

The Palace keeper goes into tonight's game on the back of an excellent personal performance away at Barnsley last weekend where he pulled off a series of excellent saves to keep his side in the game.

"We were pleased with the point. Of course we were looking for all three, but the way the game developed at the end it was good to come out of it with a point.

"I am very pleased with my performance, especially because it helped the team get the draw, and considering how the other results went that point ended up being very good for us."