Scott Parker hopes to have Hjalmar Ekdal available for Burnley’s big six-pointer against his former side West Ham despite the defender suffering a “nasty” cut above his eye.Read MoreBurnley's Josh Laurent has no interest in downplaying significance of West Ham g...The 27-year-old was given a black eye following a nasty aerial collision in training and a cut above his eye that required stitches.Parker, however, hopes the swelling reduces in time and the Swedish defender will be fine for Saturday’s trip to the capital.Providing an injury update, the Clarets boss said: “There’s no new injuries.“We had a little incident yesterday [Wednesday] with Hjalmar, but he should be fine. He just got a bit of a black eye in training, but other than that everyone is fit.”When asked how Ekdal suffered the freak incident, Parker added: “He wasn’t boxing, no!“It was a defensive drill. We were doing some defensive unit work where crosses are coming in and you obviously have to attack the ball and there are attackers coming in as well. Sometimes this happens.Scott Parker is hopeful Hjalmar Ekdal and Lyle Foster will both be fit and available this weekend. Pictures: Getty ImagesThe Burnley Express has launched a new WhatsApp channel to bring the latest news, analysis and team & injury updates directly to your phone. Simply click this link to join our Burnley Express WhatsApp channel.“It's either in these sorts of drills or maybe set-play drills where you're coaching set-plays from corners, where you've gone up to head the ball and someone else has crushed them straight in the eye.“It's a pretty nasty one at this present time. Hopefully the swelling goes down, but he's had a couple of stitches in there.”“He's been alright,” Parker added. “He's trained in full this week, so he's been with us every day.“It was probably a bad time for Lyle in terms of coming off the back of a last-minute winner [against Wolves] and confidence is sky high – and then obviously got a little bit of a sickness bug at the weekend.“That’s not ideal really in terms of momentum and certainly where he was, but he's been with us this week fully now so he'll be ready for the weekend.”Jordan Beyer, Connor Roberts and Zeki Amdouni all remain long-term injury concerns.Continue Reading