Crystal Palace can fill Eze void by starting “immense talent” for 2nd time
The promising youngster needs minutes to show the league what he can do.
It’s been a crazy start to 2024 for Crystal Palace fans, as they’ve watched their team suffer some significant defeats, be decimated by injuries and change managers for the third time in three years.
The latest man to enter the hot seat in south London is Austrian coach Oliver Glasner, who has quite an impressive track record in Germany, winning the UEFA Europa League with Eintracht Frankfurt in 2022.
The 49-year-old is a progressive manager, but he has a set formation that he likes to stick to as much as possible, 3-4-2-1, and while that could work brilliantly at Selhurst Park, the absence of Eberechi Eze could pose a short-term problem
The mercurial Englishman will fit perfectly into one of the two attacking midfield roles once fit, but in the meantime, Glasner should start a promising youngster there instead.
Eberechi Eze’s time at Crystal Palace
Eze joined the Eagles from Championship side Queens Park Rangers in August 2020, where he had just scored 14 goals and provided eight assists in 48 games at 21 years old.
A jump up to the Premier League from the Championship can often be a step too far for players – especially youngsters – but the dynamic midfielder took to topflight football like a duck to water and scored four goals and provided six assists in just 34 league matches in his first campaign.
Unfortunately, the 2021/22 season was not as successful due to a problem with his Achilles that saw him miss large chunks of the campaign, and even when he did come back, he wasn’t anywhere near his best. Luckily, he was injury-free the following season, and he ended 2022/23 with ten goals and four assists to his name in 40 appearances.
This year has been a mixed bag, as he has managed to score five goals and three assists in 20 games, but he has missed ten games as well, although the club revealed that he is back training on Friday, so it might not be long until he’s dazzling fans at Selhurst Park once more.
