Roy Hodgson explains Michael Olise substitution as Crystal Palace attacker suffers further injury setback

Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson says everybody was at ease with Michael Olise coming on in the second half during their 4-1 defeat at Brighton after he was forced off with another injury.

Olise was brought on at half-time in place of Jeffrey Schlupp but pulled up after 10 minutes and signalled to the bench that he needed to come off.

The 22-year-old was only named as a substitute after coming off in the second half of their 3-2 win over Sheffield United on Tuesday night.

French attacker Olise has seen his third season with the South Londoners hampered by injuries but still has nine goal involvements to his name.

Matheus Franca came on in his place.

Goals from Lewis Dunk, Jack Hinshelwood, Facundo Buonanotte and Joao Pedro gave the Seagulls all three points.

Jean-Philippe Mateta scored for the Eagles in the 71st minute.

“I was told that he couldn’t start the game,” said Hodgson.

“Everyone was quite comfortable with that.

“But they told me, and he told me too, that he was fine to be on the bench and play in the second half.

“Unfortunately, because I don’t have a crystal ball – I had no hindsight – I wasn’t to know that it would lead to him getting a recurrence of his injury.

“That’s exactly what we did. It’s the same hindsight which would say: ‘We were losing 3-0, why put one of your better players on?’

“The answer to that is because we brought him all the way here to be on the bench to play in the second half, we wanted our better players on the field, to be quite frank.

“It’s not easy when you have a player of his quality able to play just to say: ‘I know we brought you here to play in the second half, but we changed our mind and stay on the bench.’