Alan Pardew: “Ben Arfa has a slight knee problem, which I think definitely keeps him out of the first week.
“Papiss (Cisse) has got a slight hamstring and Demba (Ba) has a shin injury, which he’s carried for a week or so.
“Yohan Cabaye is not right in terms of work he’s done. We are hoping to get him up to speed and get him involved on Saturday.
“Everybody else is OK, apart from the knocks we got at Cardiff.
"Coloccini was substituted at the break as a precaution, and Cheik has got a calf problem.
“We’ll have to see. I don’t think he’ll travel, by the way.
“Colo looked like he was struggling after 20 minutes, which worries me. Colo didn’t want to come off being captain.
“I wasn’t sure if he was injured or not, so he might have played too long.”