Roy Hodgson confirmed that Wilfried Zaha is still working to return to fitness, but said he was confident in his players’ ability to step up in his absence.
“It's only one week into his muscle injury,” he said in his pre-Burnley press conference, “so we’re anticipating it will take more time than that for him to recover.
“The same applies for [James] McArthur and [James] McCarthy, the same applies to [James] Tomkins and Jeffrey Schlupp.
“The only piece of good news for me is that Joel Ward is able to come back into the squad after missing out against Leeds.