Aston Villa vs Crystal Palace injury news as 5 ruled out and 1 doubt

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A look at the latest injury news ahead of Crystal Palace’s Carabao Cup clash with Aston Villa.

Crystal Palace are finally up and running for the season after their huge win over rivals Tottenham last time out, their first win of the season. Jean-Philippe Mateta’s first-half winner saw the Eagles step out of the bottom three, and they will now be looking to build on that momentum following an underwhelming start.

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The Carabao Cup provides their next challenge, with Olvier Glasner’s men facing Aston Villa away from home on Wednesday. Here we round up all the latest injury news ahead of kick-off as Palace look to move a step closer to Wembley, and the injury news centres around Palace with Villa lucky enough to have a clean bill of health ad this stage in the season.

Matheus Franca - Out

Franca is along-term absentee with Glasner having said: “He is too far away. I don’t think that he will play many games or even one game in for us. We expected Franca to be back within two to three months and he’s still out.”

Chadi Riad - Out

Riad is out with a knee injury and Glasner confirmed recently: “I don’t expect [him] to play before the next international break in November.”

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Chris Richards - Out

Glasner has said of Richards: “Chris is now working on the pitch with his rehab. He’s getting closer. I don’t expect [him] to play before the next international break. It was not so serious but on a bad spot of the muscle. We have to be very careful that we don’t get a re-injury.”

Cheick Doucoure - Doubt

Glasner said last week: “Cheick has had just one training session with us this week, but it will still take time, so it is the same squad.” That suggests Doucoure has an outside chance this week but will still be a doubt.

Holding has been cast aside by Glasner and is not being considered.

Lerma is out with a longer term hamstring injury.

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