Oliver Glasner talks about Eddie Howe and Newcastle United – This is excellent | OneFootball

Oliver Glasner brings his Crystal Palace team to St James’ Park tonight.

In the opening 13 Premier League games of the season, Palace won just one.

Then after drawing at home to Newcastle United thanks to an added time equaliser in their 13th PL game, the next 18 PL games have seen Crystal Palace win 10 and lose only four.

Summing up perfectly how competitive the Premier League is.

Now facing a team who have won all of their last five matches (including the Carabao Cup Final at Wembley), Oliver Glasner has been talking about Eddie Howe and the challenge Newcastle United pose.

The Palace boss speaking really well here and a reminder that there are some really decent characters now who are managing Premier League clubs, Oliver Glasner and Eddie Howe just two of them. A refreshing change and proof that not all PL bosses are like Mikel Arteta…

Oliver Glasner talking ahead of tonight’s match, asked about Newcastle United’s form and the threat they pose:

“It’s challenging, but first of all, when we talk about Newcastle, I would like to say all the best wishes to Eddie Howe. I think he’s still in hospital and I hope that he recovers very well and very quickly and that he can manage his side.

“I love the way he manages his teams. I also followed him when he managed Bournemouth and now it’s Newcastle.

“The intensity they’re playing, the passion they’re playing, the enthusiasm they’re playing, the quality they have. The structure, how quickly forward they play.

“It’s really great to watch this game, and I really enjoyed watching them playing against Man United, but on the other side we know them and we showed it at home. Of course we were a little bit lucky scoring the equaliser in the 95th minute, but it was 16-1 shots. I think it was defensively maybe our best performance in the whole season.

“I think they had an xG of 0.01 or 0.02 and it was unbelievable how we did this – and this is what we want to show again.

“As I mentioned, pace from the wing, midfielders, Sandro Tonali, Bruno Guimaraes, Joelinton, they’re always able to score goals and run a lot.

“Tino Livramento now, always overlapping on the side, and in set plays they’re very creative and dangerous, but also we can show that we can score goals from set plays.

“I like these challenges and we’re facing a top team. We want to have these challenges and see how good we can do it.”

Oliver Glasner asked about dealing with the atmosphere at St. James’ Park:

“We will keep the atmosphere calm, that’s the best thing.

“How we started at Manchester City, we showed we could do it, but as we can see we have to be focused over the whole 100 minutes, because then they would just need a small light that starts to burn.

“We could see it there with the goal from De Bruyne and all of a sudden the stadium was back.