Crystal Palace manager Glasner on borrowed time as higher-ups give him an ultimatum post poor run of results.
Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner is facing increasing criticism after he tied the club’s worst-ever Premier League season start. The Austrian’s future is anticipated to be decided by the outcome prior to the next international break.
For the first time since 1992–93, Palace has lost all eight of their opening games of a top-flight season after losing 1-0 at Nottingham Forest on Monday. With five goals, Glasner’s team is also the Premier League’s lowest-scoring team. They are currently in 18th place. It is matching their point total from 2017. They lost their opening seven games under Roy Hodgson and Frank de Boer.
Steve Parish, the chairman of Palace, was present at the City Ground for a dismal performance in which Dean Henderson mishandled a Chris Wood shot to allow the winning goal. It is acknowledged that after such a terrible start that has already left the team five points behind Everton in 16th place, Glasner will probably be given a chance to turn things around because he made an immediate impact when he replaced Roy Hodgson in February.
Palace are one of just four league teams without a victory this far into the season. They will host Tottenham at home on Sunday. They will then travel to play Aston Villa in the Carabao Cup in the middle of the week. Fulham will visit Selhurst Park on November 9 after an away match against bottom-place Wolves. If Glasner is fired, David Moyes, Gareth Southgate, and former Brighton manager Graham Potter could all be targets.
New signing Daichi Kamada has failed to fill Michael Olise’s void. The Palace hierarchy is reportedly worried about Glasner’s rigidity regarding his preferred 3-4-2-1 system. Without the France attacker, who joined Bayern Munich in the summer, Palace has only won once in the league under Glasner, who acknowledged that his players lack confidence.
“We’re always thinking about solutions,” Glasner said after the Forest game. “Maybe it is to change the shape – we need more players on the pitch who can score goals.
“It’s tough at the moment, to be honest. But nobody is blaming anybody. Very often we are in the final third and making the wrong decisions. This is due to a lack of confidence. We are humans. It’s time for hugging the players, not for kicking them.”