Crystal Palace: Vieira must unleash Mateta

Crystal Palace will host managerless Wolverhampton Wanderers at Selhurst Park this night and Patrick Vieira’s aspect should benefit from the uncertainty plaguing the guests to steal all three factors from the conflict.

The Eagles gained a degree on the weekend towards Leicester Metropolis in a 0-0 draw however might want to discover some creativity to seal the victory towards their opponents who journey to south London on the again of a win.

The Palace boss might be happy that his group have climbed right into a a lot safer place within the Premier League after selecting up four necessary factors from their final two video games and are presently thirteenth within the league desk.

A win tonight would put Crystal Palace on 13 factors and ever nearer to the highest half of the desk, however extra importantly additional away from the very tight relegation positions within the backside three, so discovering the very best means to make sure his group are an enormous attacking menace for Wolves needs to be Vieira’s high precedence.

One participant who may very well be the right addition to the group is Jean Philippe-Mateta, with the striker having scared Wolves earlier than when he scored the 19th-minute opener of their final Premier League assembly again in March when the Eagles gained 2-0.

The £53k-per-week Frenchman who was hailed “fantastic” by Steve Parish has scored nine targets and delivered one help over his 44 appearances at Selhurst Park. Nonetheless, he has solely been given two begins this season, averaging at simply 27 minutes per recreation and has been given lower than quarter-hour per efficiency over his final three.

Nonetheless, that might change tonight as Vieira might be eager for his group to be extra scientific in entrance of aim following their stalemate towards the Foxes on Saturday and Mateta may very well be the inventive change that Palace wants.

Ought to Mateta begin towards Wolves?

Regardless of his restricted recreation time, Mateta has proven glimpses of what he can provide the Eagles over eight league appearances, scoring one aim, taking 1.3 pictures per recreation and efficiently finishing 67% of his dribbles to date.

With that being mentioned, the Palace boss might want to discover options to his group’s inconsistencies and giving Mateta the prospect to get caught in from the beginning towards Wolves may very well be a tweak that basically pays off to place the aspect in a greater place over the season forward.