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Crystal Palace might have a 20y/o Edouard alternative who’s “an actual menace”

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Crystal Palace are 5 video games into the brand new Oliver Glasner period, and whereas it may not have fairly introduced with it the thrill that many have been hoping for, it has introduced an upturn in kind.

The Austrian supervisor has seen his facet choose up six factors from a doable 15, and whereas that is not excellent, it’s higher than the three they picked up from Roy Hodgson’s ultimate 5 video games on the membership.

It definitely appears like the previous Eintracht Frankfurt boss has the power to take Palace to new heights, however one participant who in all probability will not be round for the journey is Odsonne Edouard.

Odsonne Edouard’s stats this season

The Eagles spent round £14m signing Edouard from Scottish Giants Celtic in the summertime of 2021, and whereas it wasn’t a large charge, there was some pleasure that he’d have the ability to forge an awesome profession in English soccer because of his file of 87 objectives and 38 assists in 179 video games for the Hoops.

Odsonne Edouard’s Crystal Palace file

Season

2021/22

2022/2023

2023/24

Appearances

31

37

25

Targets

6

7

7

Assists

3

2

0

Aim Involvements per Match

0.29

0.24

0.28

All Stats through Transfermarkt

Sadly, regardless of wanting spectacular right here and there during the last two and a half years for the south Londoners, the Frenchman has by no means actually appeared like he was going to recreate his Celtic goalscoring kind south of the border.

This 12 months has been a very disappointing marketing campaign for the 26-year-old. He is made simply 25 appearances all season – 19 of which have been begins – by which he is scored seven objectives and offered no assists.

Odsonne-Edouard-Crystal-Palace

This implies he is averaging a purpose involvement each 3.5 video games, which is considerably worse than Jean-Philippe Mateta’s common of a purpose involvement each 2.1 video games.

Furthermore, it’s obvious that Glasner views Mateta as his primary striker as he is began the final 5 video games. In distinction, the previous Celtic man has began simply two of the earlier 5 video games – each as an attacking midfielder.

It definitely seems just like the striker’s time at Selhurst Park is ending, particularly as an academy expertise with a superb youth-level file is reducing his enamel out on mortgage this 12 months and will stake a declare for a job within the first staff subsequent season.

Why followers must be enthusiastic about Ademola Ola-Adebomi

The teenager in query is 20-year-old centre-forward Ademola Ola-Adebomi, who joined Palace’s academy set-up at simply eight years outdated in 2012 and has since fought his approach up by way of the assorted youth sides and even made it onto the bench for the primary staff’s League Cup conflict at Outdated Trafford in September.

On the youth stage, the “distinctive” academy prospect, as described by U23 scout Antonio Mango, was in a league of his personal. He scored 34 objectives and offered six assists in 65 appearances throughout the U18 and U21 groups, which means he averaged a purpose involvement each 1.6 video games.

Ademola Ola-Adebomi profession file

Workforce

Palace U18s

Palace U21s

Burton Albion

Appearances

33

32

11

Targets

18

16

1

Assists

4

2

2

Aim Involvements per Match

0.66

0.56

0.27

All Stats through Transfermarkt

This scintillating kind earned him the best to exit on mortgage and check himself within the senior sport, and so, in January of this 12 months, he signed a short-term take care of League One outfit Burton Albion. In 11 appearances, he has scored one purpose and offered two assists, though solely six of these have been begins.

It may not be fairly the return he would have been hoping for, contemplating his performances on the youth stage, however a purpose involvement each 202 minutes in his first season of senior soccer continues to be spectacular.

Furthermore, he has made an affect on Burton’s supervisor, Martin Paterson, who described the ahead as “technically actually good”, “an actual menace within the space” and one among Palace’s “prime abilities.”

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Finally, whereas he is unlikely to interchange Mateta within the beginning lineup subsequent season, there isn’t any cause that Ola-Adebomi could not take Edouard’s place because the backup striker in Glasner’s squad, particularly with one other couple of months of expertise with Burton beneath his belt.