Eberechi Eze will start for Crystal Palace in their Conference League play-off clash on Thursday, despite ongoing transfer talks with Tottenham. The Palace star was on show during Palace’s public training session earlier on Wednesday, and manager Oliver Glasner has confirmed Eze will start against Fredrikstad tomorrow night.

But they are committed here and they will play a crucial part." This isn’t exactly surprising. I mean maybe a bit in that I’m not sure anyone involved in the transfer wants to run the risk of Eze getting injured in a European qualifying match,

Fredrikstad, who are coached by Andreas Hagen, currently sit in eighth place in the Norwegian top flight through 18 games. They have dropped down from the qualifying rounds of the Europa League after losing to Danish side Midtjylland and into this play-off for the group stages of the Conference League.