Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson provides Eze and Olise injury update ahead of Chelsea

Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson has confirmed that Michael Olise and Eberechi Eze will both miss Monday night’s Premier League clash at home to Chelsea.

The 67-year-old also confirmed that Marc Guehi will miss the game against his old club, with the England international picking up a hyper-extended knee injury against Brighton.

Our paper reported on Wednesday evening that Greenwich-born Eze was set to miss up to three weeks with the hamstring injury he picked up against Sheffield United.

Olise suffered a serious hamstring injury – which is set to keep him out for up to two months – in the 4-1 defeat at Brighton.

The 22-year-old was subbed on at half-time at The Amex but brought off 10 minutes later.

“We have lost all three of them, there is no question that it is a massive blow,” Hodgson confirmed. 

“Furthermore, Michael has picked up another serious injury, which is absolutely devastating for him, for the club, for everyone really. 

“Strangely enough, it was one of those situations where so many things went wrong when that could have gone right, but we don’t have hindsight.

“It was the perfect storm in every respect, but injuries do happen. That is the bottom line. They happened in this game, and now we are trying to seek reasons why exactly could it have happened when it happened, but it could have happened at any time. 

“There is no question of that. He could have come on for five minutes and done that, he could have not come on at all and then done it in the first training session here.

“[Olise and Eze] are both hamstrings, but Marc Guéhi has jarred his knee. 

“Guéhi is just a question of time until that jarring passes and he gets full flexibility in his knee, so it doesn’t necessarily need to be a particularly long injury.

“But unfortunately the issue is with hamstrings. We suffered another one with Jes Rak-Sakyi. He has also managed to pick up another hamstring strain after doing so well to get back.

“Two weeks with us in training, but the first time he went out to play a game with the U21s, he pulled up after 15 minutes. So we’ve lost another important player there.”