Patrick Vieira has revealed Crystal Palace teenager Michael Olise is ready for extra minutes throughout the second half of the season.
The 20-year-old has been fastidiously managed since a summer time swap from Studying the place his shows earned him the 2020-21 Sky Guess Championship Younger Participant of the Season award.
Olise produced a formidable cameo in Saturday’s 3-2 defeat at house to West Ham firstly helping Odsonne Edouard earlier than grabbing his second purpose for the membership with a free-kick late on.
Whereas it was the attacker’s thirteenth look of the marketing campaign, solely two have been begins and but his document of a purpose or help each 63 minutes is the most effective within the Premier League this season of gamers who’ve performed no less than 300 minutes.
Palace are anticipated to lose Jordan Ayew and Wilfried Zaha for the following month because of their involvement on the Africa Cup of Nations and the London-born playmaker is primed for extra game-time.
“It will likely be as much as Michael,” Vieira stated. “He could have the house clearly with Jordan and Wilfried going to internationals and will probably be as much as him to point out how good he’s and to take his possibilities.
“The plan is to work with him and to make him progress however towards West Ham he confirmed all his expertise.
“Hopefully the plan is for him to play extra video games within the second half of the season however the variety of video games he’ll play will probably be as much as him and what he reveals in coaching.”
What made Olise’s impression on New Yr’s Day extra notable was the actual fact he had not performed for 2 weeks and barely skilled throughout that interval however nonetheless managed to run rings round Arthur Masuaku.
Eagles boss Vieira was delighted with the impression of the previous Studying ace and the problem for each supervisor and participant now could be to make sure it’s proven on a extra frequent foundation.
He stated: “Michael is a prime, younger participant with a whole lot of expertise. He didn’t do any coaching with the staff within the final 10 days, so he simply got here in and was straight within the squad.
“It was a chance for us as a result of we didn’t know the way he was bodily however if you find yourself younger like that, it confirmed bodily he was okay and I used to be actually happy with the way in which he got here into the sport.
“He created possibilities, created conditions and scored a purpose. He confirmed within the house of 20 minutes his high quality and that’s actually good for the soccer membership.”
Vieira was much less forthcoming in regards to the causes behind Cheikhou Kouyate and Zaha being absent from the squad to face West Ham.
The membership have been constant of their method of not revealing the identification of gamers who’ve Covid-19 but when the duo have contracted the virus it might put their participation within the Africa Cup of Nations, which begins on January 9, unsure.
“I don’t know, I don’t have the reply,” Vieira replied when requested if Zaha and Kouyate would hyperlink up with their respective nations as deliberate.
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