Glasner on palace as the last unbeaten side in the Premier League

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Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner on palace as the last unbeaten side in the Premier League  27/09/2025  Selhurts Park, London, UK

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00:00Do you think that's the best Palace have ever played under you since you've been at the club in the first half anyway?

00:10Yeah, the first half was really great to watch for everyone.

00:15I think it was the best half since we arrived and it was just a result.

00:22It was just leading by one goal and then when you play the champion you always know they can strike back,

00:28especially when you see their last games they always scored late goals.

00:32To be fair, the second half was such an immense pressure.

00:37We were lucky a few times with Dean Henderson in one-two situations.

00:42What makes me really proud today is that we conceded the equaliser in the 90th minute

00:47and then very often the momentum changes and you lose a game.

00:52We kept the heads up, played forward and turned the momentum again

00:57and we got the game-winner and it really makes me really proud of the group.

01:03Also when I see Will Hughes wins the first header, Jeff Nurma the second,

01:06and Eddie scores the goals, three players who came on.

01:09That's why it was such a team effort today and that's why we could win.

01:14I'm really proud and delighted about the performance and of course about the look.

01:19The Palace are now the only unbeaten side in the Premier League.

01:22What kind of achievement is that against some of the clubs that you're up against?

01:27We're still in September so nothing I said to Joanne before.

01:32Last year maybe we were the only team that didn't have a win at this stage of the Premier League.

01:37It ended with a points record and winning the FA Cup.

01:41That's why we're always humble so we take this positivity and these positive feelings and emotions

01:47that helps us to recover quicker and it helps us in the daily work.

01:50We're always talking about our game and we have many positive clips we can show the players,

01:56especially from the first half and then their mentality again,

01:59but we also have things we can still improve.

02:04But yes, it's great to win.

02:09It's great to win against the champion.

02:12But in five days we play against Kyiv,

02:16so in the next two days players come in tomorrow to do recovery.

02:20I think the win helps us to recover mentally.

02:23The legs get the treatment today and tomorrow.

02:26Monday they will have off and Tuesday we will start and push the team to win against Kyiv.

02:34In terms of bringing on Eddie and having two strikes at the end,

02:37can you explain your thinking that and stretch the player a bit?

02:40Do you require any of your own half in the second half?

02:42Yes, we're always making steps more position-wise and especially when we are under pressure

02:53I want to bring on a striker.

02:56It just makes no sense if you bring on more and more defenders,

03:01you get more and more pressure.

03:03We have to play in Liverpool's half to get released from their pressure and not in their own box.

03:09We could see that when they had five or six players in the box, they crossed from everywhere.

03:14And this is also how their goal happened.

03:17So this is always in our thoughts and also my assistants had a great idea today,

03:24how we made the subs and then we could bring the game forward again.

03:29And just to be amazing for that 18 games, an amazing achievement,

03:32can you kind of reflect on what's going into that?

03:37I hope we will continue.

03:39I talked about it before, it was really and I told it to the players.

03:42Sometimes then as soon as you have in your head we want to stay unbeaten,

03:46you want to defend something and defending something is always passive for me.

03:51But we want to win something, the approach is to win the game.

03:55We don't know if we are doing it every time, but I don't want to say just stay unbeaten.

04:01No, no, no, go for the win.

04:03If it's a draw, we take the draw.

04:05If it's lose, we have to accept to lose, but the approach is to go out and try to win the game.

04:14Hi Oliver, another fantastic performance from your team.

04:17Could you talk a little bit about your emotions at the end?

04:20With your assessment on your captain's performance, I think he was excellent today

04:24and obviously for all many reasons in the spotlight,

04:27and then he even gave the assist to Lyon.

04:32Yes, it's the emotions.

04:34I told the players last time when we won our penalties,

04:39I'm now over 50, they should look after my heart.

04:43It could make it a little bit easier to relax a little bit earlier.

04:46And then on the other side, this is why we love football,

04:49having this at the end and then in front of our fans, in front of the stand.

04:55It was just so great and I wanted to run to the players.

04:59But after five yards, I stopped because I remembered I conceded a yellow card once.

05:04And then I had to pay something for the team and then my wife gets upset with me.

05:11And so it was the better way.

05:14And I mentioned in the press conference before the game,

05:19it was exactly what I expected from Mark.

05:23It was exactly what I knew Mark would show because he shows it every game,

05:28he shows it every training, how good he is, what fantastic person he is.

05:34It's even more important than how good he is as a player.

05:39And he's so focused on his game, he's so focused on our game

05:45that there were no thoughts about everything else.

05:49So again, just shows how fantastic and how great Mark is.

05:56I was going to ask you about Mark, but in terms of the other performers on the pitch,

06:04Adam Horton, you know, he only played for 60 minutes,

06:07but the energy that he had all around,

06:11do you just keep getting better and better?

06:14Yes, you can ask me now about almost every single player,

06:19because I think Daji Kamado played an excellent game.

06:22Ismail Asari was now out for three weeks, had one week of training.

06:26He was so threatening them with their runs.

06:29T Mitchell, what a game, how he defended Mo Salah

06:33and always being there and having, he could have three assists today, T.

06:37And yes, Adam is the same.

06:40I thought he gets a little bit fatigued in the second half.

06:43I think he lost too many second balls at that stage of the game.

06:47But he also was injured and we have a very tight schedule,

06:51so that was the reason.

06:52But we know what we have with Adam, that's why I started Adam and Daji today.

06:56On the other side, Will Hughes and Jeff Lerma had deserved to start,

07:01because they also played so well and they showed it then.

07:03So it's good to have all these options now and he's just a fantastic player.

07:10He's at the beginning of his career.

07:12We hope that we had a very unlucky last year with his injuries

07:19and so we want to keep him fit.

07:22We have to manage him in the best possible way

07:24and then he will have a great career definitely.

07:31The Palace of two years ago at 1-0 would have probably

07:35camped in the half than just try to see the game out.

07:38It feels like there's been a massive culture change under your director.

07:41Is it something you've had to get across to the players

07:44that every game, even in stoppage time against the champions,

07:47is there to win?

07:49Yes, this is what we're telling them since we arrived

07:52and it's just what I experienced.

07:55I can just tell the players what's important for me

07:59and how is my character.

08:02When I played many games and sometimes we had these situations

08:08and then we got passive and then we got punished

08:10and the next day I always thought, come on, why?

08:13Why we didn't play forward, why we were waiting.

08:16I told you, you don't say this in English,

08:19like the rabbit in front of the snake.

08:22You don't have this in England.

08:24We say in Germany, you know what the rabbit is doing

08:27when there's the snake there.

08:29It just doesn't move and hopes the snake doesn't see it

08:33but it always gets eaten.

08:36And I really experienced this in 500 games sometimes

08:41and then really some day I always thought

08:42that I hated myself for this.

08:44And then when I became a manager I always thought,

08:46no, I don't want that the players experience this.

08:48We play forward, if we lose, we lose.

08:50But we always have this identity that we try to score a goal.

08:55And I think everybody would also say that we have a lot of focus on our defence.

09:05But in the defence we always want to prepare our attack.

09:08And this is never just defend to defend.

09:11Of course we have to defend sometimes.

09:13We have to defend a lot inside the box.

09:15But when it's possible to play forward, let's play forward.

09:18And this is just our culture, this is our identity

09:22and this is what we, I think, players really like.

09:26And just an idea as well, Flacco from injury,

09:29good performance at West Ham, massive goal today.

09:31His confidence must be growing at the moment.

09:34Yes, hopefully, and it's good to have him back.

09:37Also at the end of last season,

09:40he already showed that he can score many goals.

09:43He scored two against Wolves here in our last home game.

09:46In the West Ham game, he was fouled last year

09:53when he had the penalty at the end.

09:56And yeah, it's good.

09:57He's so ambitious and he's working so hard.

10:00And I think he got the reward today.

10:01And it's also one of our slogans is

10:03if you invest, you get something back.

10:06It's one of my credos in my life.

10:08I told it, I think, once or twice.

10:10If you invest in your family, you get it back in your job.

10:13If you invest, you get it back.

10:15He's investing so much.

10:16And today he got the reward, getting the game winner in front of our fans,

10:21being celebrated.

10:22So, yeah, well done with it.

10:24And do you take pride in equaling the club record of 18 games and beating

10:29or is it purely just focus on the next game and beating the record in Kiev?

10:33Yes.

10:34When you tell me, if you're always telling me, then maybe it will be in a few weeks.

10:39But at the moment, of course, I'm proud and I really love this group of players.

10:45And I see how hard they are working and how hard the staff is working.

10:51And where to set play goes today, I know my assistants and I'm sitting here,

10:55but I know how my staff is working hard to get all these details into the players' mind.

11:01I know sometimes we are really, you see, relentless to the players, you know,

11:06and pushing them, come on, and this and this and this.

11:08They always keep going, they're always listening.

11:10And then we all get the reward at the moment.

11:13So that makes me proud because I know it's a lot of effort,

11:16not from Oliver Glasner, but from every single player,

11:19from every single one in the staff and from every single one in the club.

11:23And that's why it works that well at the moment.

11:28Thank you. Last one here.

11:31Oliver, you just mentioned the set pieces.

11:33I can at least ask you about the long throwings in particular,

11:36because there's been a lot of talk about the long throwings.

11:38Why do you use them?

11:40Why do you think it's so difficult to defend?

11:42And what's your assessment on the long throwings in general?

11:45We use them to score goals, so it's...

11:50We were talking about it.

11:52I think there is one reason that makes it a little bit easier

11:56is there's no offside.

11:58Whereas in free kicks, you have offside,

12:00so you can move everywhere.

12:02That means also the defence has to drop quite deep.

12:05You see, for example, when it's a free kick from the edge of the box,

12:11they hold the high line and you can't be there.

12:14Whereas when there is a throw-in, you can move everywhere in the box.

12:19That means they have to defend the bigger space.

12:21Maybe that's the reason, but on the other side we have to defend this as well.

12:24And it's a good play tool to score goals.

12:31On the other side you always have to be aware that you don't concede.

12:35OK.

12:36There you go.

12:37Thanks a lot.

12:39Cheers.

12:40Cheers.

12:43Cheers.

12:45Cheers.

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