Thierry Henry names Olise as France’s most important player

Bayern Munich star Michael Olise took his assist tally to five at the World Cup on Tuesday, setting up two goals in France’s 3-0 win over Sweden in the round of 32.

Kylian Mbappé is up to six goals in just four games after another tournament brace, but according to France legend Thierry Henry, it's Olise who stands out as the most important player for the national team.

“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 said on FOX Sports.

"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. 

“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’.”

Olise and France continue their World Cup campaign against Paraguay in the round of 16 on Saturday.