Defender · #40 · Argentina · 30 yrs
It has been a turbulent campaign, but Oliver Glasner bows out in style and will go down as one of Crystal Palace's greatest managers. Glasner and Palace's glory this term comes despite the loss of two key players - with Eberechi Eze sold to Arsenal last summer and Marc Guehi joining City in January. The Austrian manager has undoubtedly helped Jean-Philippe Mateta take his game to another level - he had scored 11 goals in 80 games for Palace before Glasner's arrival in February 2024, but has netted 46 times in 110 matches under him.
After being denied their rightful place in this season’s Europa League, Crystal Palace finally have their revenge. In Oliver Glasner’s final match in charge, it was fitting that Jean-Philippe Mateta should score what turned out to be the winning goal after his January move to Milan was scuppered by a failed medical. It has been that kind of season.Having rescued the south London club from the brink of extinction only 16 years ago, how Steve Parish must have relished this occasion. The Palace chair found himself sitting next to the Uefa president, Aleksander Ceferin, for the biggest night in their history and he can now start planning for the Europa League campaign that was denied to them as last year’s FA Cup winners were adjudged to have broken European football’s governing body’s rules on multi-club ownership. As for Glasner, who performed a full-length dive on the pitch before going up to collect his winners’ medal, it ends any debate over whether he is the greatest manager in Palace’s history. Continue reading...
The departing Oliver Glasner sparked fury from his own fans in January – but may have a claim to be Crystal Palace’s greatest ever manager and can lead the Eagles to a third trophy in 12 months in the Conference League final against Rayo Vallecano
The departing Oliver Glasner sparked fury from his own fans in January – but may have a claim to be Crystal Palace’s greatest ever manager and can lead the Eagles to a third trophy in 12 months in the Conference League final against Rayo Vallecano
6/10, with potential to boost to 10/10 if we win the Conference League. It started with Eberechi Eze's departure - a loss I thought would hurt us a lot more than it did - but we started the season really well, extending our unbeaten streak to 14 games, including doing the treble over Liverpool. Like Oliver Glasner said in his goodbye speech, the best moment is yet to come on Wednesday night as we travel to Leipzig for the ultimate European final experience.
Crystal Palace captain Dean Henderson says it would be a "huge honour" to lift the Conference League trophy in front of the travelling supporters in Leipzig on Wednesday night. Outgoing boss Oliver Glasner led the club to their first major trophy in 2024-25 when they won the FA Cup, and now the Eagles are just one step away from lifting European silverware in their first-ever European campaign. "It would be a huge honour to lift the trophy," Henderson said in his pre-match news conference.
