Palace have ACL injury fear for Riad

Crystal Palace fear centre back Chadi Riad has suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury.

The injury, if confirmed, would potentially keep Riad out for the best part of a year and leaves Palace short in the centre-back area.

Chelsea recalled loanee Trevoh Chalobah earlier this month and Riad's injury would leave them with Marc Guehi, Maxence Lacroix and Chris Richards as the only fit senior centre-backs.

Oliver Glasner plays with three central defenders in his system so a serious injury to Riad would present a problem.

The Eagles were not likely to replace Chalobah in the transfer window as they had Riad available after injury.

But if Riad is now out long term, Palace would look to enter the market for another defender.

The Eagles came into this window looking for an attacker and a left wing-back, and signed Romain Esse from Millwall, with the 19-year-old scoring on his debut on Saturday.