A much-changed Crystal Palace have been compelled to accept the UEFA Convention League knockout stage play-offs after they have been held by a 10-man KuPS facet in a 2-2 draw at Selhurst Park.
Palace completed Tenth place within the Convention League standings, that means two extra video games for Oliver Glasner’s facet in February after the Austrian boss had already complained about an “irresponsible” fixture schedule throughout the festive interval.
He’ll have his personal facet guilty for his or her extra two matches within the new 12 months, although as they threw away an early lead in opposition to the Finnish champions. Chrisantus Uche’s first-half magic to search out the again of the online with a Trivela was cancelled out within the second half.
With three minutes separating the 2 targets, Piotr Parzyszek and Ibrahim Cisse scored to stun Selhurst Park. Two practically grew to become three in 10 minutes as a second Parzyszek purpose was struck off for offside after a VAR test.
Palace needed to depend on a reckless problem from Clinton Antwi that noticed him immediately given his marching orders. Inside three minutes of that call, Justin Devenny headed house an equaliser. Glasner made 11 modifications to his facet with one eye on their journey to Leeds in underneath 48 hours.
He handed out three full debuts to an academy trio of George King, Dean Benamar and Joel Drakes-Thomas, however after they wanted a purpose, Jean-Philippe Mateta and Eddie Nketiah have been launched late on. Palace got here shut by Devenny as soon as once more, however he was denied by a giant cease from KuPS’ Johannes Kreidl.
Palace now put together for his or her journey to Leeds on Saturday evening, dwell on Sky, to kick off three video games in eight days earlier than the brand new 12 months, together with a Carabao Cup quarter-final at Arsenal on Tuesday, additionally dwell on Sky.
Palace face fixture pile-up!
Palace’s failure to safe computerized Convention League spherical of 16 qualification means the Eagles face a frantic January and February schedule.
Glasner’s facet are nonetheless in Carabao Cup competition with a quarter-final at Arsenal subsequent Tuesday, dwell on Sky Sports activities, and in the event that they attain the semi-finals, it means they will be competing in 4 competitions throughout two months…
- January 1: Fulham (H), Premier League, kick-off 5.30pm, dwell on Sky Sports activities
- January 4: Newcastle (A), Premier League, kick-off 3pm, dwell on Sky Sports activities
- January 7: Aston Villa (H), Premier League, kick-off 7.30pm, dwell on Sky Sports activities
- January 10: Macclesfield (A), FA Cup third spherical, kick-off 12.15pm
- w/c January 12: Potential Carabao Cup semi-final first leg, Chelsea (A)
- January 17: Sunderland (A), Premier League, kick-off 3pm
- January 25: Chelsea (A), Premier League, kick-off 2pm, dwell on Sky Sports activities
- February 1: Nottingham Forest (A), Premier League, kick-off 2pm, dwell on Sky Sports activities
- w/c February 2: Potential Carabao Cup semi-final second leg, Chelsea (H)
- February 8: Brighton (A), Premier League, kick-off 2pm, dwell on Sky Sports activities
- February 11: Burnley (H), Premier League, kick-off 7.30pm
- February 14/15: Potential FA Cup fourth spherical tie
- February 19: Convention League play-off spherical first leg (A)
- February 21: Wolves (H), Premier League, kick-off 3pm
- February 26: Convention League play-off spherical second leg (H)
- February 28: Man Utd (A), Premier League, kick-off 3pm
Glasner: I really like our fixture schedule – it is what we would like
Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner:
“I love it. Including the Carabao Cup semi-final? Hopefully. So it’s easy to avoid these two games, just losing in five days, but that’s not our mindset. We wrote this schedule and hopefully playing the Carabao final, playing the FA Cup final, playing the Conference League final and up to the Premier League having 65 games. That’s what we want.
“It is February, there will probably be a couple of gamers again. I count on, so I hope the AFCON is just not prolonged till March, so this will probably be actually getting some bother.
“So I expect Ismail Sarr back, I expect Daniel Munoz back in February, and I’m pretty sure we will have one or two signings in January.
“The membership is de facto hard-working behind the scenes and getting these offers finished and over the road.
“And all the players are fit and I can just tell you, today we had a few players who said, we have three games in five days, I can play every game in 90 minutes.
“I stated, settle down. So it simply exhibits the character of this workforce and the sport immediately. We might have most popular to win, however the whole lot else, we calculated this danger of possibly getting a draw. However the whole lot else labored how we deliberate it. We may relaxation a couple of gamers. The one factor that I do not like is that Leeds now is aware of our beginning line-up already.”
