The southern club of London won the Fa Cup against Manchester City and still does not turn off the echo of the company. The technician Glasner: “We had patience. We and also the fans who have always been close to us”
“But then we really won the Fa Cup.” Oliver Glasner meets journalists two days after the Crystal Palace has become a fairy tale. In his eyes, as in those of every Eagles player, of every fan of this team in the southern area of London who has won something for the first time in almost 120 years of history, there are still Wembley’s emotions, the incredible ending won with Manchester City, the handshake with Prince William before lifting that cup with which the Crystal Palace has officially opened its trophy room. Now everything is different, because that cup brings the club to a new dimension, one that does not include more ambitions to float in the middle of the standings: it starts from the community of Community Shield at the beginning of August with Liverpool, continues with the Europa League, another first historical time for a club that has never played in the cups.
Palace fairy tale
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The cheering for the Eagles, especially on that journey through time that is Selhurst Park, the Crystal Palace stadium stuck among the houses that seems to have come out of a vintage movie, is one of the hottest among the London teams. And the most faithful. He poured to Wembley in Massa on Saturday, bringing the red and blue balloons and all the pride of belonging to a team that usually stands away from the spotlight and looks at the others win. It was different, because this Crystal Palace is different: it has a rose assessed 441 million euros, 13th premier club as the ranking says, but has the talent of Eberechi Eze, goalkeeper Dean Henderson, of the right outside Muñoz, of midfielder Wharton, of the Marc Guehi central, one for which the Newcastle last summer had offered 77 million euros. The Palace refused them because he was convinced that he could do something important this year, with all those talents and a coach who already winning the Europa League with the Frankfurt had shown that he believed fairy tales and that in this first whole season in the Premier he confirmed that his 3-4-2-1 can be a winning weapon even in the most difficult championship in the world. The Palace remained patient even when he did not win any of the first 8 premier matches, even when he had made 9 points in the first 13 championship games at the beginning of December. “This cup shows what a club can do when he has patience – Glasner said -. We deserved it because we always remained united, and they also have been to the fans. Usually they become impatient when they start very badly like us, instead they remained close to us. Even a few weeks ago, we have conceded 10 goals in two games with Newcastle and Manchester City, but there have always been close”.
And now the premier
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That special push will still serve, because in the next season the Crystal Palace will have to demonstrate that it belongs to that level with which it is measured for the first time. It will be necessary to maintain all that talent on which this year’s fairy tale was built, continue to say no to indecent proposals such as that of Newcastle of last summer for Guehi and if possible to continue improving. The Europa League, as well as Thursday evening in the vintage atmosphere of Selhurst Park, will also bring more games and a rose that will necessarily be expanded, a mission that the patron Steve Parish seems to have intended to do. Because now that he has tasted the story, now that he has tasted the taste of victory, the Palace has no intention of waiting for another 120 years for a magical afternoon like that of Saturday in Wembley.
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