‘Weak team’: Roy Hodgson bemoans latest injury blow in Manchester United capitulation as nine players injured

Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson can’t just seem to catch a break at the moment with two more players getting injured in their Carabao Cup 3-0 defeat to Manchester United.

 Alejandro Garnacho, Casemiro and Anthony Martial scored the goals for United in a one-side display at Old Trafford but the bigger concern for the Palace boss Hodgson is his injury list with injuries to Dean Henderson and Jairo Riedewald adding to the already rammed medical room that has the likes of Nathan Ferguson, James Tomkins, Jefferson Lerma, Naouirou Ahamada, Michael Olise, Matheus Franca and Odsoone Edouard.

The Palace boss admitted his team that he would put up for the league game against Erik Ten Hag’s side will be similar to the one that was out there on Tuesday night partly due to the number of injured players he has.

He told reporters after the game: “This wasn’t a weak team by any stretch of the imagination. We’re not suddenly going to go from the team you saw tonight to a totally different team [on Saturday against United in the Premier League].

“We’re going to have to become a totally different team in terms of how we approach the game.

“Not really,” said Hodgson when asked if he could provide an update on the stopper’s injury. Like all of those muscle injuries, the doctors can tell you which part of the leg the injury has occurred in but they’re not prepared to give you the severity of it.

“That will need a scan. I’m sure we will have to wait for the result of that before we know anything more. We just know he had a very unfortunate end to a game he was looking forward to playing.”