00:00Oliver, do you feel like you've seen that type of game play out a few times this season?
00:12Yes, again, it's a performance of both teams where I think you shouldn't lose the game.
00:26We were creating enough to score goals, but we missed all our chances in getting punished by a corner, by a set play.
00:35It showed exactly what we have to improve.
00:38We conceded more than 50 per cent from set plays, so that's what we have to improve.
00:42On the other side, if you always know if you concede one, you are struggling to get back,
00:47because this happened in the last week, so it's no coincidence now, almost at half-time.
00:53If you are the team that is mostly underperforming in the chances that it creates,
01:00and the goals it's caused, it's no coincidence.
01:06We could see today, because I can't remember, and you are watching Crystal Palace longer than me,
01:12that the Crystal Palace side dominated the Tottenham side like we did today.
01:16But then leaving the pitch was a defeat, so that makes it frustrating for all our players,
01:22because they are feeling the same, and I don't blame anybody for missing the chances.
01:27But we have to accept right now that we have a little bit of lack of finishing quality in the team.
01:32It looks like we can't replace Ismaila, Danny Munoz and Daichi Kamada,
01:37who are very often involved in our goals.
01:43But on the other side, they want to be back in the next week,
01:46so it's now to support all the players, because I see the way we played, the structure,
01:51the chances we created, the patterns worked.
01:54And it's now really supporting the players to get this confidence back that they are able to score more goals.
02:02What can you do to score more goals and ensure that your side does finish off the chances you create,
02:07when you consider there aren't many options to come in and replace players that are maybe out of form in front of goal?
02:13Again, first of all, we could show them.
02:17I think even in many chances we could have created by taking...
02:23My feeling is, and that's why it's now really to support,
02:27my feeling is the closer we come to the goal, the more nervous we get in decision-making,
02:32should we pass, finish and everything.
02:34Because the players, they are not stupid, they know all the things I'm talking about,
02:38because they are very self-critical and they are so...
02:41I congratulated them for all their effort until the last minute,
02:44because Tottenham had the full week to prepare,
02:46we had a mid-week game again and I think nobody felt it.
02:49But yes, so they have the same feeling,
02:54and now it's not showing them,
02:56here you could have passed to the left side, to the right side,
02:58to this, to this, to this, to this.
03:00It's really supporting them, giving them trust and confidence that they can do better like they are doing now.
03:11Just on Jean-Philippe Mettete, he had a couple of good chances today,
03:14but it's not really working out for him at the moment.
03:16Do you think it's just one of those things where a striker sometimes goes on a good run of form
03:21and has a bad run of form, or is it...
03:24No, it's, you know...
03:26Yes, of course you need your striker to score goals, but JP scored so many goals since I arrived.
03:32But you also need the support from the teammates left and right,
03:35and then we can have a look to all the players who played today,
03:40and that means we have Jeremy Pino, I think, with one goal,
03:43we have Edin Katia with one or two,
03:45we have Justin Devaney with one penalty,
03:47we have Tee Mitchell with one goal,
03:49and we have no goal from midfield and the rest are set plays.
03:51So we know this, that we don't have the players who are scoring regularly,
03:55even in their career,
03:57and it's now, again, to support them.
04:02I don't see any other reason,
04:04because the players I mentioned won't be back in the next three, four weeks,
04:09and we have now five games, four games in nine days,
04:14and we will get our chances again,
04:17and it's just, yeah, now stay positive,
04:20and showing them how many good situations they create,
04:24and they should take confidence from these situations, yeah,
04:27and then you just sometimes need, like this,
04:30that we take all the chances again.
04:32And given that those players aren't going to be back for a few weeks,
04:35January transfer windows about to open,
04:38have you been given any assurances that you're going to get some players in quickly
04:42in the next few weeks?
04:44I can give insurance.
04:45Sorry?
04:46Assurances.
04:47Assurances.
04:48Have you been assured that we will sign players?
04:52Yeah, yeah, I understand.
04:54Sign some players in the first couple of weeks of January.
04:57I can't sign, I don't have enough money to sign a player, sorry.
05:00The transfer fees are too high.
05:03Again, it's, I think, to be honest,
05:07if you watch our game today, it's pretty clear what we need.
05:13And then it's a decision of Crystal Palace.
05:18And if you're constantly underperforming in scoring goals, yeah.
05:26Again, what I can do, what we can do is encourage the players,
05:31supporting them, be positive.
05:34Again, I can't blame, and I will never blame Kleine, you know,
05:40when he gets the free header on the far post.
05:42We've scored, I think, Danny Munoz four goals in the same areas.
05:45But Kleine is 34, I don't know how many goals he scored,
05:49it's just not his nature.
05:50So he gets there because he gives all the effort, he tries it,
05:53OK, but then it's not maybe his biggest strength scoring goals.
05:57But yes, we need it from this position when we play like this.
06:00And just one example.
06:02And again, if you see, sometimes you can watch the statistics,
06:07I think the one who has most assists is Marquet, centre-back.
06:12Second most assists is Lacroix, centre-back.
06:14So this is just what we have to improve.
06:17OK, gentleman over there.
06:19I think it's not easy, every team puts a lot of effort in it,
06:42in the preparation, on the training pitch.
06:44We knew that they scored a few like this,
06:47but on the other side now, and again, it's not an excuse, it's just fact.
06:51So we missed maybe one of our best header was Chris Richards.
06:55We missed one player who is very important in defending set,
07:01Ismail Azar and Danny Munoz,
07:03and we replaced them with smaller players.
07:05And then we knew that we have a few, in basketball you would say a mismatch.
07:12So we knew this.
07:14And then we got punished.
07:15We lost three headers in a row.
07:17And on the far post, I think it was Tee Mitchell against Colomani.
07:23Yes, this is a mismatch.
07:24And if the ball arrives in the right area,
07:26and this is, I think, also the quality of a team,
07:28and the quality of Tottenham, I think it was the ninth goal from a corner.
07:31We prepared it, we knew it, the players wanted to avoid it,
07:36but then it just happened.
07:37And I think we had two big chances from said plays,
07:40and we missed them.
07:41And that's football.
07:42If you miss your chances and the opposition is very clinical, you lose.
07:45Just on that, have you identified the type then as something important to adding
07:50to a player?
07:51No, we have enough, but they're just not available right now.
07:55And we know, I mentioned this after the Leeds defeat,
08:00that we have in this area.
08:04And again, today we didn't give them many said plays,
08:07it was the first corner,
08:08and now the players have it in their mind,
08:11oh, shit, it happened again.
08:14And it feels like this, I know it's not a word you should mention,
08:20but it feels like this, honestly.
08:22And again, I will never blame anybody if he's ten centimetres smaller
08:29and loses the header.
08:31It's part of football, we scored plenty of goals like this,
08:34but it feels at the moment really not good.
08:37Thank you for this question.
08:49It lifts my mood.
08:52I told the players before, and I think they showed it.
08:562025, in the calendar year table, 37 games played in the Premier League,
09:03we are six in the table.
09:05Beside this, we are in the knockout stage of a European competition.
09:10Beside of this, we won the Community Shield and the FA Cup.
09:13So I think it's by far the most successful calendar year in Crystal Palace history.
09:19This group of players, these players, delivered and achieved it.
09:24Today it doesn't feel like this, but again, I see all the effort,
09:27I see the way we are playing it.
09:28Last year we won 1-0 here against Tottenham,
09:30but I think today we were much more dominant than we were one year ago.
09:33This shows the progress of this team,
09:35and this shows the progress and the development of Crystal Palace.
09:39So every single one, including myself, I don't feel it right now,
09:44but if we look back and see the whole picture,
09:472025 was an incredible year for Crystal Palace.
09:52So all the credit to the players with their effort,
09:55with their work ethic, with their togetherness and their quality.
10:01Today it doesn't feel like this, but really well done.
10:07We saw Chris Richards watching on in the stands this afternoon.
10:12Can I just ask how he is at the moment?
10:14Is it as you were expecting?
10:16We don't know if he's available for full time.
10:20Again, his foot got stitched, still swollen,
10:24it goes into the right direction,
10:26but you have to wear a boot and kick a ball,
10:29and when you have the wound right there,
10:33it's very, very painful.
10:35Again, it can be that he misses full time,
10:38it can be that he's available.
10:42But I have seen a team today that was able to win against Tottenham.
10:48We couldn't achieve it, but I have seen every single player
10:51who participated in the game.
10:54Everyone's effort could have been enough to win it.
11:01So this gives me a good feeling for the Fulham game.
11:04And yes, on the one side is frustration,
11:07on the other side it's really supporting these players,
11:11because they deserve all the support.
11:15Yes, we don't get the results right now.
11:18And it also just shows, I think, the standard we developed here.
11:26That we are now, I remember when I arrived,
11:30we were 15th in the table and the water was high mark,
11:35and now we are still in the top half.
11:40And we are really frustrated.
11:44And that's good, because this will keep us working,
11:47this will keep us improving,
11:52and this is what we will get, definitely.
11:55Okay, that's it. Thanks, everyone.
11:58Happy New Year.
11:59Ah, no, sorry, we see it's on the 31st.
12:05You'll see some of them on 31st.
12:09You'll see some for the rest of the day.
12:13Thanks, everybody.
12:17Thanks.
12:19Good帅.
12:20Thanks.
12:21It's true.
12:24Thanks, everyone.
12:25Thanks.
12:26Thank you for the rest of the room.
12:28I'm going to be here.
12:29You know the rest of the room.
12:30I'm going to be here.
12:32You can see it.
12:34You're so sorry.
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