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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 after arriving in London this Thursday.
- Also read: So far, Glasner’s neo-club has only been able to win trophies at the “Emmys”.
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 again and doing well.”
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 about scoring goals.”
“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’s a lot of intensity. We’re looking for that 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 about.”
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