Oliver Glasner has called on everyone at Crystal Palace to embrace the journey ahead as the club launches into a pivotal phase of the 2025-26 season.
After a club-record 19-game unbeaten run and landmark trophy wins, the pressure shifts to sustaining success and growing from experience.
Palace’s streak ended just before the October break, but Glasner is unfazed by the setback.
“I think you don’t learn it [the need to be clinical] in one, two or three games,” he said. “You need to experience it.”
He stressed that many of the squad are unfamiliar with the rhythm of competing across multiple fronts and handling long stretches of fixtures.
“80 % of our players … are not used to playing in this rhythm,” Glasner explained. “Our international players will have 16 weeks in a row playing every third day … you can talk about it, whatever you want, but you have to experience it.”
He compared football to writing: you improve by doing, receiving feedback and repeating the process.
“This is the journey we are on,” the Austrian coach added. “We want to play. We don’t say ‘we want to throw away one competition’, this is not who we are or how we are. We want to compete in every single one, and it is for us to have this experience together.
“I will make a few mistakes … for me, I’m always learning and getting new experiences, and then — as a group — we will improve, I’m 100 % sure.”
With challenges ahead at home and in Europe, Palace’s mindset now shifts from unbeaten record-chasing to sustained performance and continuous growth.
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