Crystal Palace have once again been dealt some bad luck in terms of injuries with the news that winger Yannick Bolasie and striker Connor Wickham will both be out for a month with leg injuries.
The pair missed the 0-0 draw with Bournemouth, with Fraizer Campbell getting a rare start, and after the game manager Alan Pardew confirmed that he’d be without the duo for the busy period ahead.
He told the BBC:
[Bolasie and Wickham are] not going to play on Monday [against Swansea]. They look as though they’ll both be out for about four weeks. We’re pretty thin at the moment but that’s part of the game.
Wickham injured his calf in the 2-1 win over Stoke last weekend, while Bolasie was injured in the warm-up ahead of the stalemate with Eddie Howe’s side.
Wickham’s career at Palace has been very stop-start, and this second calf injury will once again hamper his chances of settling into life at the London club.
Yannick Bolasie’s absence will be a huge blow to the Eagles as he is a mainstay of the side, and his versatility often provides Pardew with a number of different options.
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