Osian Roberts has praised the demanding nature of Crystal Palace attacker Wilfried Zaha and backed him to assist take the membership to the following stage.
The Ivory Coast worldwide will return from suspension for the New 12 months’s Day conflict with West Ham after he was despatched off through the 3-0 loss at Tottenham final weekend.
Will probably be Zaha’s final home sport earlier than he jets off to Cameroon for the Africa Cup of Nations, which begins on January 9.
For the reason that winger graduated by way of the Eagles academy greater than a decade in the past, he has repeatedly been criticised externally for his perceived poor angle and physique language on the pitch, the place he can now and again be seen gesticulating together with his personal team-mates.
Nevertheless, present boss Patrick Vieira has typically praised the “profitable mentality” of Zaha and his assistant echoed these sentiments on Friday.
“I can solely go on private expertise over the previous few months and I feel Wilfried is a prime skilled who’s hungry for achievement,” Roberts stated whereas filling in for the isolating Palace supervisor.
“He needs to achieve success as a person and profitable in a workforce atmosphere. So as to take action you must push your self, you must push your team-mates and all the time demand.
“Patrick is all the time saying to our group of gamers you should demand extra from one another and Wilfried is among the first to try this.
“If we wish to elevate the bar and obtain extra shifting ahead, which the gamers are bold to do, then gamers like Wilfried are actually essential in that course of.
“He isn’t one who’s going to simply accept mediocrity, he’ll anticipate excellence on daily basis in coaching and in each sport.
“He has a significant half to play and it’s important gamers like Wilfried, who’ve that have and talent, cross on their expertise and assist lead this group of gamers to the following stage.”
New 12 months’s Day opponents West Ham have gone by way of the transformation Palace are desperate to observe from being a mid-table membership to a workforce competing in Europe, albeit with important funding.
Whereas Roberts didn’t want to be drawn on parallels between the edges, he was more than pleased to speak up the managerial exploits of Hammers boss David Moyes who has rebuilt his repute on the London Stadium following troublesome spells with Manchester United and Sunderland.
The Eagles assistant stated: “Each membership could be very totally different and I’m positive the scenario can have many variations to it however I’m an enormous fan of David Moyes.
“I used to go to Bellefield and watch the Everton first-team practice when he was supervisor and Alan Irvine was assistant. They’d enable me to go in and watch coaching a few years in the past so I’ve been an enormous fan of David’s for a very long time.
“I’m so happy that everyone now could be realising he’s a prime, prime supervisor.
“Perhaps some opinions modified for a short time after he left Everton however you don’t turn out to be a nasty supervisor in a single day. The expertise he has gained and the best way he has his groups play deserves the utmost respect.”
Palace are awaiting the outcomes of routine PCR testing performed on Friday which might enable boss Vieira to return to the touchline following a bout of Covid-19.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
