6 ruled out of Newcastle clash and former Toon target passed fit - Crystal Palace injury update

Roy Hodgson has been speaking to the press ahead of tomorrow's trip to St James' Park, revealing some good and bad news on the injury front.

He's revealed that danger men Ebere Eze and Michael Olise are both out, along with Dean Henderson, James Tomkins, Jeffrey Schlupp and Nathan Ferguson.

On the flip side, Cheick Doucouré, Jefferson Lerma, Joel Ward, Naouirou Ahamada and Matheus França are all available, with the latter a young Brazilian winger Newcastle attempted to sign back in January.

Tough-tackling midfielders Doucoure and Lerma both missed their 0-0 draw with Nottingham Forest before the break and will add some steel to their engine room.

Here's what Hodgson's had to say in his press conference on Friday afternoon:

“It is better news, although, we lost James Tomkins yesterday unfortunately to a calf injury. He is having a scan today.

“I hope it’s not serious but that one is a bit of a blow because until yesterday he was there as well.

“We’re down now really to [Michael] Olise, [Ebere] Eze, [Dean] Henderson who are injured for a period of time, and Jeff Schlupp who came off injured in our last game against Nottingham Forest, and although he is getting quickly better he has not recovered in time for our game tomorrow.

“The only other one, who hasn’t really been in the first-team squad for a while now unfortunately, is Nathan Ferguson, but the good news for him is that he is playing some games for the Under-21s team and making progress, so even that is very positive news.”