Chelsea loanee suffers ‘really strange injury’ in first training session for Premier League club

Trevoh Chalobah volition person to hold to marque his Crystal Palace debut aft suffering an abdominal wounded successful his precise archetypal grooming league since leaving Chelsea.

The defender moved crossed London connected indebtedness connected deadline time having been exiled from Chelsea’s first-team by Enzo Maresca.

Though the Blues were expecting offers upwards of £20million for Chalobah, nary specified bids were made and his indebtedness woody astatine Palace does not see an enactment to buy.

Nevertheless, the 25-year-old is hoping to get his vocation backmost connected way astatine Selhurst Park and it seemed apt that helium would marque his Eagles debut connected Saturday erstwhile they instrumentality connected Leicester City.

However, successful his pre-match property league connected Friday, Oliver Glasner revealed that Chalobah’s indebtedness spell had got disconnected to an unfortunate commencement which could spot him miss the adjacent 3 games.

‘He injured his abdominal musculus successful his archetypal league with us. It’s a truly unusual injury,’ the Palace brag said.

‘He’s besides not disposable tomorrow. It won’t instrumentality precise long. He’s questionable for QPR and Man United arsenic well.’

Chalobah’s lack leaves Palace, who play with a back-three, a small abbreviated connected centre-back options with Rob Holding presently exiled from the first-team and improbable to ever play for the nine again.

Summer signing Chadi Riad besides injured his genu during the Carabao Cup triumph implicit Norwich, with Glasner present confirming that he’s retired for ‘eight to 12 weeks’.

In amended quality for the Eagles, who person taken conscionable 1 constituent from their archetypal 3 league games, striker Eddie Nketiah is acceptable and raring to spell pursuing his large wealth transportation from Arsenal.

‘Yes, he’s acceptable to start. Otherwise, we wouldn’t person spent astir £25 million,’ Glasner added.

‘We don’t walk £25million for a subordinate to beryllium connected the bench. He tin play antithetic positions – he’s precise smart. He is simply a antithetic illustration to Jean-Philippe [Mateta].’

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