The striker scored a brace in his first start in a [Cherries](http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/cherries/clubnews/?ref=au) shirt last weekend against Crystal Palace, to hand the team a 2-0 lead at halftime.
The 19-year-old previously netted a late equaliser at Leeds, with the striker scoring three Premier League goals in just 96 minutes on the pitch across five appearances.
Asked about how Kroupi had reacted to his brace last weekend, Iraola said: “I see him happy.
“Obviously, it's his first start in the Premier League. You score two goals, it's a shame for him, I suppose, and for everyone that we could not finish it with a win, that we could almost feel it and touch it.
“But he has been training normally, like always, and he knows he has to continue pushing because, like for everyone else, it's not easy to have the minutes, have the starts, and it's good that we have this internal competition.”
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Asked about his character, Iraola said: “I think he has to be a teenager. He is a teenager and I think he plays football like he plays with his friends, I would say.
“He enjoys playing football. You can see players that even when we are not training, if there is a ball there, he will go and touch the ball and will try to do something.
“And he enjoys playing, I think. And now he has to understand the high competition. What are the requirements? It's not just on the ball, it's a lot of things.
“And he's improving a lot in those areas. He comes from a team where he scored, I don't know how many goals, past season, but a lot of goals.
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“And it's difficult to have this level in the Premier League, so he has to add more things to his game. And we are trying to help him in this process of understanding all the things that we need for him to do so he can be competitive.”
On that sense for goal, Iraola continued: “It's difficult to improve. I think strikers, especially this kind of striker, they smell the danger.
“The second balls, they go for every rebound. If the shot touches the post, they will be there just in case.
“Because in this situation, you have to go 100 times just for one goal, because one is there, the ball. You have to go to the second post, like the other day, 100 times just to score one, but if you never go, you don't score.
“So I think he smells these things and this is difficult to coach, as you said. And we have to try to take benefit of this instinct that he has.”