Fulham vs Crystal Palace early injury news with 5 ruled out and 1 doubtful

Fulham are sat in 8th place in the Premier League table. They have had an impressive season to date under the guidance of Marco Silva.

The Whites won 2-1 at home to Nottingham Forest last time out. Emile Smith Rowe and Calvin Bassey got their goals at Craven Cottage.

As for Crystal Palace, they were beaten 2-1 by Everton at Selhurst Park. Jean Philippe-Mateta was on the scoresheet for them against the Toffees but they weren’t able to get anything from the game in the end which was a blow.

Fulham injury news

Fulham winger Harry Wilson is out and is expected back in April. Silva has said: “He got the surgery last Monday. Everything went well; now we have to step by step keep recovering him. It's going to take a long time, probably the beginning of April.”

Defender Kenny Tete has been sidelined with a knee injury and could return in late March or early April. His head coach said in mid-January: “Kenny is a little bit different because we know already the timescale. It's going to be probably to the end of March [or the] beginning of April. It's a long, long time without him.”

Attacker Reiss Nelson is in the treatment room at the moment and it remains to be seen when he will be back available. His manager shared this update earlier this month: “We had really bad news two days ago about Reiss. Unfortunately for us, everything was going in the right direction, and he felt the same type of injury but in the other leg. It's going to take a long time again to get him ready.”

Crystal Palace injury news

Crystal Palace defender Chadi Riad Dnanou has been ruled out for the rest of this campaign with a knee injury. He only joined the Eagles last year from Real Betis.

Oliver Glasner said in late January: “Chadi has ruptured his ACL, so we have lost [him] for the rest of the season and even longer. There was no impact, and Chadi as well, it was just a normal situation in training ' so it's really frustrating.”

Midfielder Cheick Doucoure also won’t be seen until the summer which is a blow. Glasner said: “After further assessments, Cheicky needs surgery on his knee, so we have lost [him] for the rest of the season. We hope [he] will return for pre-season.”

Elsewhere, defender Joel Ward hasn’t played much football this term. He will need to be assessed to see when he can be included in the squad again following a calf strain.

Crystal Palace are positioned in 12th in the league and will want to bounce back from their defeat to Everton. They will be in for a tough test though against a Fulham team who will be in confident mood.