Crystal Palace boss Patrick Vieira has enjoyed witnessing the promotion of Academy midfielder David Ozoh to his first-team outfit this season.

The 17-year-old was named in a Premier League matchday squad for the very first time in Palace's recent win at Bournemouth.

“He has really grown since he's been with us," Vieira noted. “He's been training with us [the first-team] really often, and adjusting himself to the tempo of the game, but he's got the strength, the power and the technical quality to train with us every day.

“There is still a long way [to go for him]. He is just 17, and he was playing last year in the Under-18s, so he was playing up in the Under-21s. Now, he's training with the first-team.

“He found it really difficult in the first couple of weeks but now he's starting to get used to it. We have to give him time to grow and get used to being around the first-team players before asking him [for] too much.

“You have some young players who have a lot of attributes, but when they are around first-team players, they don't have the courage or personality to play with this kind of freedom, so you're looking at all those kinds of aspects.

“David's been really good so far."