On Tuesday night, Crystal Palace’s U21 side were in action against Everton in a 4-2 thrashing, here’s everything that happened.
Tuesday night saw the U21s face Everton at Selhurst Park, with the Eagles walking out 4-2 winners on the day.
Crystal Palace had four different goalscorers in the game, with Franco Umeh opening the scoring from the evening in the third minute of added time to end the first half.
Then the West Ham Jemiah Umolu trialist bagged a second three minutes after halftime in the 48th minute to make it 2-0.
The Toffees got one back before Danny Imray made it 3-1 in the 70th minute.
Everton got another back before Justin Devenny made it 4-2 in the 93rd minute.
For all the players that shone there will have been a particular reason they’ll be delighted with their performances as one important figure watched on.
Oliver Glasner was watching Crystal Palace U21s
One special person was in the stands on Tuesday night, this being the first team boss Oliver Glasner, as he watched the youngsters impress.
This will have been an extra motivation for these players to impress, with Umeh probably the player most likely to benefit from a chance in the first team.
Glasner showing interest in the youth is excellent and clearly, he intends to utilise the academy, which could even see significant investment in youth.
As Glasner watched on, there will have been one player in particular who’d be delighted to have impressed, is Umolu who’s still on loan with Palace.
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Who is trialist Jemiah Umolu?
For Palace, the second goalscorer was Umolu, who has been on trial for a couple of months now after arriving from West Ham.
Before he arrived at Copers Cope, he had five goals in seven U18 Premier League games for the Hammers which is a fairly decent tally.
This makes him an exciting young striker and he’s certainly proving that thus far in his spell at Palace with last night being the latest example.
With Glasner watching on last night, he’ll have been impressed and it’d be surprising to not see him join the club now after that.
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