Oliver Glasner insisted the only disappointment arising from Crystal Palace\u2019s 2-2 draw with KuPS is that Leeds now know his team for their Premier League showdown on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Palace must qualify for the UEFA Conference League round of 16 through the play-offs in February after taking an early lead at Selhurst Park through Christantus Uche but then failing to finish further chances.<\/p>\n
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Piotr Parzyszek and Ibrahim Cisse hit back for the Finnish champions, who had Clinton Antwi sent off for a bruising tackle on Will Hughes, with Justin Devenny grabbing the equaliser in the 77th minute.<\/p>\n
Glasner made 11 changes in anticipation of playing two matches in 48 hours, giving starts to academy teenagers Joel Drakes-Thomas, Dean Benamar and George King, and will rotate back to his senior side against Leeds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe result is not what we wanted. It\u2019s a game we could easily have won. We calculated the risk of getting a draw,\u201d Glasner said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cEverything else worked as we planned it because we were able to rest a few players.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only thing I don\u2019t like is that Leeds now know our starting line-up because there are only 11 players who didn\u2019t start and nobody will start both games.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe lost our structure for 10 minutes and were punished. Two mistakes and this can happen especially with many young players.<\/p>\n
\u201cCredit to everyone, especially our academy players. All four of them showed up and played with confidence.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey gave good performances but we can see they are not used to playing at this level because they were cramping after 60 minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course we only had one training session together we we can\u2019t expect everything to be perfect, but they showed they are big talents.\u201d<\/p>\n
KuPS boss Jarkko Wiss insisted he felt no disrespect from the side selected by Glasner.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re picked by Palace, then you\u2019re a good player,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oliver Glasner insisted the only disappointment arising from Crystal Palace\u2019s 2-2 draw with KuPS is that Leeds now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,127669,197238,1925,393,197240,4884,197237,69972,197239,1860,27038,197242,101,138051,61025,16,15,197241],"class_list":{"0":"post-641262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-christantus-uche","10":"tag-clinton-antwi","11":"tag-crystal-palace","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-george-king","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-ibrahim-cisse","16":"tag-justin-devenny","17":"tag-kups","18":"tag-leeds","19":"tag-oliver-glasner","20":"tag-piotr-parzyszek","21":"tag-premier-league","22":"tag-selhurst-park","23":"tag-uefa-conference-league","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-will-hughes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115743468184207844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}