Crystal Palace can welcome back Wilfried Zaha for Saturday's visit of Chelsea as they pursue their first points of the Premier League season.
The influential forward's absence, since a knee injury suffered in the 3-0 home defeat by Huddersfield in their first fixture of 2017-18, has contributed to the fact Palace have lost all seven league games without scoring.
Manager Frank de Boer was sacked and succeeded by Roy Hodgson after the fourth defeat of that run, and the club's only recognised striker, Christian Benteke, has also since suffered a knee injury.


With the promising, on-loan Ruben Loftus-Cheek ineligible against his parent club, Zaha's return to fitness becomes particularly significant, and Hodgson said: 'He can make a difference.