Crystal Palace v Liverpool: team news and provisional squads

Crystal Palace will give late fitness tests to Wilfried Zaha, Alexander Sorloth and James Tomkins before Saturday’s home game against Liverpool.

Zaha was unable to train during the international break because of a knee problem, while Sorloth is recovering from a hamstring injury and Tomkins from a calf issue. Doubts also persist around Mamadou Sakho (also calf).

Jeffrey Schlupp (ankle) also misses out, while Joel Ward, Scott Dann, Jason Puncheon, Bakary Sako and Connor Wickham – who this week suffered a minor groin injury – remain long-term absentees.

Provisional squad: Hennessey, Cavalieri, Speroni, Wan-Bissaka, Fosu-Mensah, Kelly, Tomkins, Sakho, Jach, Delaney, Reidewald, Van Aanholt, Souare, Townsend, Cabaye, Milovojevic, McArthur, Mutch, Rakip, Lee, Loftus-Cheek, Zaha, Benteke, Sorloth.

Liverpool will be without Emre Can and Joe Gomez.

Full-back Gomez faces three to four weeks on the sidelines after suffering an ankle injury on England duty while Can is still battling the back problem that ruled him out of representing Germany.

But former Palace man Nathaniel Clyne is included in the squad for the first time all season after his own serious back issues and left-back Andy Robertson has recovered from the dead leg he sustained playing for Scotland.

Provisional squad:
Karius, Alexander-Arnold, Van Dijk, Matip, Robertson, Henderson, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Salah, Firmino, Mane, Mignolet, Lovren, Klavan, Moreno, Wijnaldum, Lallana, Milner, Solanke, Ings.

Last season: Liverpool 1 Crystal Palace 2, Crystal Palace 2 Liverpool 4

Last five league matches: Crystal Palace L L L L W; Liverpool W W W L W

Top scorers (all competitions): Luka Milivojevic (Crystal Palace) 8; Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) 36

Referee: Neil Swarbrick (Lancashire)