Now things are getting serious for Oliver Glasner at neo-club Crystal Palace: On Saturday he will host penultimate Burnley with the “Glaziers” in the fight to stay in the Premier League. After his first training session yesterday, the Upper Austrian gave his first interview following arriving in London this Thursday.
He revealed a juicy detail to the club channel “Palace TV”. “It’s the first time in my career that I’m taking over a team in the middle of the season. It’s a different situation, but it is what it is. It’s important to make the best of it,” said the 49-year-old.
The original plan was for the 49-year-old to take over the club in the summer: “The talks started in the autumn, but the plan was for me to take over in the summer.” Roy Hodgson’s resignation changed everything. The 76-year-old coaching legend had to struggle with health problems and the results were no longer correct recently. “The most important thing is that Roy is healthy once more and doing well.”
On the road to success with attacking football
How does he want to lead Crystal Palace back up from the bottom of the table? With attacking football! Glasner: “My philosophy is very simple: scoring goals, that’s the reason, as I often tell the players, why we started playing football. Nobody went onto the pitch as a little child to defend.” Of course, solid defensive work is also important in order to score points: “Sometimes we press hard, sometimes we let ourselves go, but it’s always regarding scoring goals.”
He has three training sessions to get to know his team: “We want to get the conviction back and fill the vision of the club with life. No matter whether away or at home – our team should show the same face everywhere in the future.”
“We are looking for this challenge”
Even though he took over earlier than expected, Riedauer – and his supervisory staff around Michael Angerschmid and Ronny Brunmayr – are approaching the new task well prepared.
He has followed the Premier League intensively in recent months. “There is a lot of intensity. We are looking for this challenge. Maybe the referees in Germany or other countries in Europe call more fouls – there are a lot of duels, but that’s what football is regarding.”
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