Crystal Palace news has been provided ahead of their Premier League game against Liverpool.
Roy Hodgson has raised questions about the fitness of Michael Ollis as Crystal Palace prepare to face Liverpool. Reds can go top of the Premier League with a win at Selhurst Park.
Palace are in deep trouble after losing 2-0 at Bournemouth earlier this week and have won just once in their last eight league games. This means Hodgson is under fire from Eagles supporters.
Things won’t be easy for the former Liverpool boss as his former club head to south London in fine form. Adding to his problems, carefully managed talisman Oliza recently returned from a long-term injury.
Palace will have to make do without their key trio of Cheick Doucourt, Eberechi Eze and Tyrique Mitchell, who have already featured against Bournemouth.
“He’s another guy we’ve lost to injury but we’re not prepared to lose him now,” Eagles boss Hodgson said in his pre-match press conference. “[Chek] Doukoure and [Ebere] Eze are still out of the squad. “Obviously we can add Rob Holding and Jes [Ruck-Saki].
But our injury list is not that long. Three of the players we are missing are regulars in the squad: Mitchell, Doukoure and Eze. It’s the three of us who play all the time and us and the team we’re building.
Losing three of our regulars probably hits us a little harder than other teams in the league. “It’s a hip injury due to a concussion that caused the hip injury.
This game started too early to qualify, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be eligible to play in the next game. “Another thing we have to think about and we can say now is that we have to decide on Olise.
After being out for nearly four months and his workload increasing significantly over the last two games, sports scientists told me to be very careful with him. “It’s not difficult because he’s a very good player and you don’t want to be careful with the best players, but we have to take that into account.”
But I haven’t made any decision yet. “We’ll talk to the sports scientists and Michael himself tomorrow, then we’ll have to decide whether the game will start or not.”
