2021 Super Eagles invitee wins December Player of the Month award at Crystal Palace

The gifted midfielder was the star man for the Eagles throughout their pleasant tour in a month the place the main focus was mainly on the FIFA World Cup

2021 Tremendous Eagles invitee Michael Olise has been named the winner of Crystal Palace’s Participant of the Month award for December.

In a month when the main focus of the primary three weeks was centred on actions on the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, Olise excelled within the colors of Crystal Palace.

Olise is eligible to play worldwide soccer for Nigeria, Algeria, England, and France. However whereas the 2 African nations didn’t qualify for Qatar 2022, the 2 European international locations snubbed Olise of their squad to the Mundial.

The teenager took the frustration on the chin, although, and went with Crystal Palace to Turkey to take part within the Eagles’ mid-season tenting.

Olise starred for Patrick Vieira’s males in friendlies towards the likes of Napoli, Botafogo, and Actual Valladolid. Palace averted defeat in three of these video games, shedding solely to a Victor Osimhen-inspired Napoli (3-1 to the Italians) on December 11.

The Premier League returned on the finish of December with Palace shedding to Fulham and beating Bournemouth 2-0 away on the ultimate day of the 12 months.

Olise was essential to that victory, offering the assists to each targets scored by Jordan Ayew and Eberechi Eze.

Followers took discover of his consistency and high quality all through the interval underneath overview and an amazing majority (31.3%) voted for him as their finest participant.

Eze adopted in second place (21.3%) whereas Ayew got here in third (13.1%).