Crystal Palace is hard to stop under Oliver Glasner in the second half of the season and dreams of the big throw in the FA Cup. The Austrian is already being revered.
Oliver Glasner made a certain exhaustion with his high -flyer team Crystal Palace. “We were not at our top level, especially as far as the focus is on.
Matheus Franca at least partially saved the Eagles’ success series in added time. With five victories in a row, a total of twelve victories in two defeats in the last 16 games, Palace had blossomed to England’s team of the hour in the fourth round of the second round – and in the middle: Oliver Glasner!
The Austrian, who led Frankfurt to the legendary Europa League title 2022, is currently on fire with his team. After the victory in the quarter -finals of the FA Cup against Fulham on Saturday (3-0), the traveling fans of the Eagles even celebrated their coach with his own song.
The content summarized: “Super Oli Glasner” is supposed to lead Crystal Palace to Wembley – and the 50 -year -old has already done this. Because the semi-finals (vs. Aston Villa) of the oldest football competition in the world (since 1871/72) takes place in the legendary Wembley Stadium.
The fans, of course, take a large throw after the very big throw, the cup victory in Wembley. It would be the first in club history, in 1990 and 2016 the Eagles lost in the final.
Catastrophic season start for Crystal Palace
Glasner has been on site twice in the legendary stadium. Once as a spectator of a football game, once as a fatherly chauffeur.
“I was there for the second time when my daughter was a Taylor Swift concert there. But I only drove her down,” said the Austrian at the press conference after the game against Fulham, making it laugh at the media representatives present.
You are joking because it is currently going again after a catastrophic start to the season. “Oliver Glasner has done huge work,” praised ex-fulham keeper Mark Schwarzer after the semi-finals in the BBC Radio . “It is very exciting to watch that.”
After eight winless games and 18th place at the beginning of the season, Crystal Palace has now worked in twelve. The late draw at the bottom of Southampton was a slip, but on average Glasner’s team gets 1.76 points per league game.
Extrapolated to an entire Premier League season, this would be 67 points, which would have been enough for fifth place last season.
A tiny among giants
To classify: Palace has never occupied a single -digit place in the season in the history of the modern Premier League at the end of the season. Last season in Michael Olise (53 million euros to Bavaria) and Joachim Andersen (30 million euros to Fulham) also went two key players.
The club from Südlondon is a tiny compared to the well-known competitors of the league, only to the home games of the no-name clubs from Bournemouth and Brentford, average fewer spectators come.
Financially, the Eagles hold back with their opponents because they simply cannot afford top stars.
Glasner with record point cut
It is largely thanks to Glasner that the fans can now dream of Europe through the chance in the FA Cup.
With 1.70 points per competitive game, the former SGE coach, which also has Palace played in a 3-4-2-1 formation, has the best cut of all Palace trainers who were more than 20 games in office ( transfermarkt.de ).
“The love I feel for Oliver Glasner cannot be put into words,” wrote Eagles fan and Podcaster Dan Cook via X : “You do not support Palace because of the fame, but already from childhood, because it is the team nearby or because you appreciate what it means to follow a less ‘trendy’ club.” It is all the more important that one can currently dream of the first title in club history.
Glasner is to be rewarded prematurely for the previous success story with a new contract. If you believe the Portal Football Insider , the conversations are already well advanced.
But success also arouses desires in this country. As Sky recently reported, the 50-year-old should be a hot candidate at RB Leipzig for the new season.
So far, the Austrian has been under contract in England by 2026. However, since in the coming summer transfer window it is expected to be exciting about Palace stars such as Marc Guehi, Eberechi Eze, Adam Wharton and Jean-Philippe Mateta, Palace Glasner allegedly wants to bind in the long term at an early stage.
Palace still has a lot of potential
Because those responsible are aware that the success in the second half of the season is not based on chance. Rather, Palace just acted very unhappily before. Over the season, Palace has the worst ratio (-10.0, fbref.com ) between expected goals (XG: 45.0) and actual goals (35).
Although this seems negative at first, on the other hand, it proves that the team earns many chances, but simply not ripped off in front of the goal or acting unhappily. There is definitely improvement potential.
Exactly the opposite is currently the case with high -flyer Nottingham Forest. The Tricky Trees have the best relationship in this statistics (+11.9) and dream as third in the Premier League from the Champions League.
If Glasner develops his team even further in this aspect of the game, the last chapter of the success story may not be written. Provided that he stays with Crystal Palace beyond summer.
But even this season, the fans of the Eagles are allowed to dream.