Palace are working on possible replacements for Eze, who played the full 90 minutes in last week’s Community Shield match against Liverpool, and have approached Leicester City to explore a potential ...

Eberechi Eze's free kick against Chelsea was disallowed because of a rule which prohibits the player on the attacking team from going within one metre of the defensive wall.

Chelsea came into the tie off the back of a brief but encouraging pre-season campaign, where they beat both Bayer Leverkusen and AC Milan, but could not carry that form into competitive play.