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Crystal Palace could be set for key boost with Aston Villa set to assess Pau Torres
Aston Villa could welcome a Crystal Palace outfit to Villa Park next week with Eberechi Eze in tow after all, according to reports. Palace star Eze, often the Eagles' chief attacking orchestrator, limped off with a hamstring injury having scored against Villa in Palace's 2-1 EFL Cup win at Villa Park at the end of last month.
Eze missed the draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers and then the defeat to Fulham last weekend, while he also hasn't been available to Lee Carsley and England as a result. The playmaker's prognosis was that he'd be sidelined for between three and four weeks, reports the Daily Mail, but by the time the domestic action begins again he could be in line to return to the matchday squad.
Palace have won just one of their first 11 league games under Oliver Glasner in the new season, having ended last term well but having sold key players Michael Olise and Joachim Andersen; they did retain Eze, Marc Guehi and Adam Wharton despite interest from elsehwere and replace those departed players with Trevoh Chalobah and Eddie Nketiah, but they'll arrive at Villa Park in desperate need of points.
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Eze hasn't been the only injury issue, either. Glasner has further headaches; Nketiah missed the defeat to Fulham this past weekend with a hamstring problem of his own, and he'll find himself in a race against time to return in time for that second clash in B6.
Fellow summer signing Daichi Kamada - who also scored in the EFL Cup last month - was shown a straight red card against Fulham, too, and will begin his suspension after the international break at Villa. There are worries, too, over the fitness of Jefferson Lerma, who has missed the last two games with hamstring woe.
"We took the final decision [on Wharton], he will have surgery," Glasner said recently. "He tried [training] but the pain is too much and then it makes no sense. He has really struggled in the last weeks and months. So now we took the decision to have the surgery, and we hope to have him back after maybe four weeks."
Villa, of course, don't exactly have a clean bill of health themselves; they were without Ross Barkley and Matty Cash in the defeat at Liverpool on Saturday night, while Jacob Ramsey and Boubacar Kamara sustained injuries during the 2-0 reverse at Anfield. All four players are in a race against time to return and be available to Unai Emery for the Palace clash.
Villa will also hope that their range of international stars return from duty in a healthy condition, although Pau Torres has already been sent home from Spain duty without kicking a competitive ball after feeling discomfort in his muscle, something related to his evening in Liverpool over the weekend.
