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title: "Hodgson confirms Souare likely to miss Watford"
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author: "Elliott Cuff"
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published: "2018-08-24T20:23:43Z"
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# Hodgson confirms Souare likely to miss Watford

Crystal Palace could be without another defender for Sunday’s clash against Watford, following a training injury.

The Eagles were already due to miss full-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka after he was sent off against Liverpool on Monday, but could now be without another full-back in Papé Souare, who limped off during a training session.

Talking about Souare’s injury in his pre-match press conference, Soaure said:

> Papé Souare limped out of training today with a slight muscle problem.

> He limped out of the training session, and I haven’t spoken to the physios yet to determine the extent of that, but he was as fit as a butcher’s dog at the start of it.

For Palace, Patrick van Aanholt is the first-choice at left-back, so the impact of Souare’s absence won’t be immediately felt, while Hodgson believes he has plentiful adequate replacements for Wan-Bissaka on the right. He continued:

> We are fortunate that we don’t have too many injury problems, so that’s good.

> Of course we can’t play Aaron Wan-Bissaka, but we have Joel Ward and Martin Kelly, so we have two good players who can play at right-back, and they are good alternatives.