CRYSTAL Palace have received a major boost ahead of their Premier League clash against Manchester City at Selhurst Park on Saturday with Michael Olise set to be available to face the champions.
Olise has been out with a hamstring injury since the 4-1 defeat at Brighton & Hove Albion on February 3.
Olise has only played eleven games this season but is the club’s joint-top scorer in the league with six goals.
“All the players who were in the squad in the last games are fit again,” Eagles manager Oliver Glasner said in his pre-match press conference. “Michael is coming back into the squad.
“We spoke to the medical team and the advice is for fifteen or 20 minutes. He is ready and it gives us one more option towards the end of the game, so we are happy.”
“We didn’t train a lot this week because it’s the third game now, but of course he has shown his individual quality in possession. His dribbling, his finishing is great.
“But he was out now for eight weeks and for the fourth time this season, so he was more in rehab than on the pitch. We will give him the time to find his best performance, to get his quality back.
“Everyone needs rhythm, everyone needs minutes, needs training. He is now starting [to get that] so I don’t expect him at the best level after eight or nine weeks of injury, but he can play fifteen or 20 minutes.
“If it is still a tight game at the end, then maybe he can have one or two decisive situations to decide the game against us.”
Marc Guehi is still not training with the squad and is set to be out for another three weeks.
Glasner also gave an update on Chris Richards.
He said: “We will look from day to day. One day it looks better and then the next day not so.
“But I think he will miss at least the Liverpool game and then we will see.
“He will be out for two or three weeks.”
