Andros Townsend has revealed he and his Crystal Palace team-mates were left in tears after Eberechi Eze ruptured his Achilles just days before the end of the season.
The 22-year-old, who starred throughout a stellar debut campaign in the Premier League having joined Palace in the summer, will not return until the start of 2022 at the very earliest.
The off-the-ball incident occurred with just 10-minutes remaining in the training session, and just moments before Eze saw a message from England, informing him he had made Gareth Southgate's provisional 33-man squad for the upcoming European Championships.