Hodgson: Zaha return still unclear as McCarthy resumes training

Roy Hodgson has updated on Crystal Palace's squad fitness before they take on Brighton & Hove Albion - confirming that James McCarthy has returned to training.

He said: "James McCarthy trained today which is very positive, so we’ll see how he trained through that. A couple of others picked up slight knocks that we need to keep an eye on – we don’t know how well they’ll recover.

"Certainly there won’t be a vast difference from the last couple of games and if we’re really unlucky it could be worse. Two players are suffering from knocks and we’re monitoring them.

"[Wilf Zaha] is still suffering from the injury, there’s no question of that. The doctors in particular and physios are very anxious to…