BY ANDREW MCTSEEN
Crystal Palace prolonged their unbeaten away type to 6 video games in a row after their 2-0 victory at Fulham on Saturday – a report going again to their 0-0 draw at Bournemouth on Boxing Day.
The victory in west London additionally noticed the staff from SE25 win 4 consecutive away video games within the top-flight for the primary time ever, and all of them with out conceding a objective – 4 2-0 wins in a row.
However regardless of this scintillating away type, which sees the Eagles lie fourth within the Premier League away outcomes desk, on six wins with solely Liverpool, Arsenal and Nottingham Forest above them, they sit in fifth-worst place for house league type, on simply two wins from 12 video games, with solely Ipswich and Southampton (one win every) beneath them.
And Oliver Glasner’s aspect now face Villa within the league at Selhurst Park on Tuesday, having misplaced their final two Premier League video games in South London.
“It’s nothing to do with confidence – the gamers all the time have faith at house – nevertheless it’s extra the strain they really feel that we now have to win at house,” mentioned supervisor Glasner in his pre-match media convention on Monday.
“I bear in mind – and I don’t need to discuss it anymore – that after I arrived one 12 months in the past, it was all the time [that we were] conceding late objectives. It was as much as us to alter it, and we needed to work on it. [Now] it’s the identical, however the extra you give attention to the outcome, the extra you lose your give attention to what it must get outcome. That is what we had been speaking about, that is what we’re engaged on and now it’s the following probability for us to see the way it works.
“Each single win was deserved – we weren’t fortunate in any respect. The gamers did rather well [and have been] very compact, disciplined [and shown] nice dedication. Now we need to do it once more. It’s useful that we enter this sport with a win at Fulham.
“However we now have to shift our focus from profitable to the efficiency and that’s what we now have to do towards Villa. This will probably be necessary, as a result of they’re an amazing staff – a staff with large high quality, with a transparent construction of taking part in, and a staff taking part in within the final 16 of the Champions League. A staff with totally different objectives than Crystal Palace.
“We have to carry out at our greatest stage and be very environment friendly, after which we now have an opportunity to win. It’s necessary what we need to do out and in of possession. If we simply present 90% of our stage, and so they play on their high stage, we are going to lose after which it doesn’t matter if it’s an away or house sport.
“We performed them twice this season (Palace drew within the league and received within the league cup). We confirmed that it’s powerful to play towards us, that we even have expertise the place we are able to rating towards them, the place we are able to create probabilities. It’s as much as us to point out it once more. It doesn’t matter if it’s at Villa Park or if it’s at Selhurst Park, it’s simply to point out it and the gamers will give their finest to point out it after which let’s see how the result’s.”
The sport towards Villa on Tuesday is simply the fourth time this season that the Eagles have performed a midweek top-flight sport, with a loss towards Forest and wins towards Ipswich and Leicester – all away from south London – their reward thus far.
However Glasner is fast to distance himself from any hyperlink to the final time a midweek Premier League sport was performed at Selhurst – the 4-0 win at house on Monday Night time Soccer towards Manchester United final season – regardless of that latest run of away outcomes.
“I take pleasure in each sport if we win, particularly with efficiency, however I don’t actually care if it’s a midweek sport or if it’s on the weekend,” he mentioned. “If the sport is Saturday, three o’clock, Tuesday at 19:30, or Saturday when it’s 12:15, we now have to be prepared, and I do know the gamers can do it.
“However it’s the Premier League. You possibly can win. You possibly can lose. Each sport is set by one, two, or three choices or alternatives are taken. Each single sport is so tight. We need to get the factors so we are able to climb the desk.”
PICTURE: KEITH GILLARD
