Michael Olise has continued to turn heads at his first World Cup tournament, having bagged five assists in his four games with some immaculate plays. France legend and 1998 World Cup winner Thierry Henry was the latest to sing his praise, while delivering his analysis on France’s 3-0 victory over Sweden for the FOX Soccer panel.
“What he does off the ball is second to none. Because people always stay on what a guy does on the ball, usually, when you’re that kind of guy, technical, you forget about
your defensive duty. He doesn’t, he thinks about the game, the way he goes about the game, Michael is a freak. The way he sees stuff is just not the same as others can see stuff. If things don’t happen the way he likes to happen, sometimes he drifts a bit out of the game because he sees everything so perfectly and so quickly that if you’re not on his wave sometimes he gets annoyed,” said Henry (as captured by @iMiaSanMia)
He continued, delivering an anecdote about Olise’s brilliance: “But what a player, I had the privilege to coach him. Sometimes he was doing stuff in training and you have to hold yourself from going, ‘wow’, because as a coach you just can’t do that, you talk to your assistant, ‘did you see what he just did?’. And then you say, ‘come back, come back, come back, let’s go guys’.”
Henry capped off his analysis with quite the statement: “This guy is on another planet, he is just different. MVP will always be Kylian, because he will put numbers no one can do, but the most important player is Michael Olise.”
Henry hit the nail on its head. Olise’s role going forward for France is crucial, and despite Kylian Mbappè‘s goalscoring heroics, Olise might just be the most important piece of the puzzle for Les Bleus. What do you think? Do you agree with Henry’s analysis? Tell us everything in the comments below!
