• Forward suffers thigh injury during training with Palace • Rémy, on loan from Chelsea, has played only six times in 2016

Crystal Palace fear they will be without their recent signing Loïc Rémy for up to two months after the forward picked up a thigh injury in training and returned to Chelsea for treatment.

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Rémy joined Palace at the end of last month, initially on a season’s loan, for a fee of around £3m, with a view to a permanent deal. The latter stages of the 29-year-old’s two-season stint at Stamford Bridge were dogged by injuries which cast him to the fringes, with Chelsea prepared to loan him out despite having only Diego Costa and Michy Batshuayi as senior strikers.

He started only three Premier League games last season after a series of calf issues and has managed six in all competitions this calendar year. In the last of these in April he hobbled off at Aston Villa after 23 minutes with a groin problem. Rémy picked up his latest thigh injury on Monday and although Alan Pardew was initially optimistic it would not be too significant, a scan revealed they are likely to be without the Frenchman for six to eight weeks.

Yohan Cabaye, who has been suffering with a slight groin problem, is also expected to miss Saturday’s trip to Middlesbrough as Palace seek a first win of the Premier League season.