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oliver glassner That’s the only disappointment arising from Crystal Palace’s 2-2 draw with KuPS leeds Now know about his team Premier League Showdown on Saturday.
Palace must qualify for the UEFA Conference League Round of 16 via the play-offs in February after taking an early lead Selhurst Park Cristantes headed through but then failed to convert further chances.
Piotr Przeszek and Ibrahim Cissé counter-attacked for the Finnish champions, who sent off Clinton Antwi for a strong tackle on Will Hughes, while Justin Devaney equalized in the 77th minute.
Glassner made 11 changes in anticipation of playing two matches in 48 hours, giving starts to academy teenagers Joel Drax-Thomas, Dean Benhamer and George King who will return to their senior side against Leeds.
Glasner said, “The result is not what we wanted. This is a game we could have easily won. We calculated the risk of a draw.”
“Everything else worked according to our plan as we were able to rest some players.
“The only thing I don’t like is that Leeds now know our starting line-up because there are only 11 players who did not start and no one will start both games.
“We lost our structure for 10 minutes and we were penalized. Two mistakes and that can happen, especially with many young players.
,Credit For everyone, especially our academy players. All four performed well and played with confidence.
“He performed well but we could see that he is not used to playing at this level because after 60 minutes he was having cramps.
“Of course we only had one training session together, we can’t expect everything to be perfect, but they showed they are big talents.”
KUPS boss Jarkko Vis insisted that he felt no disrespect from the team chosen by Glasner.
“If you have been selected by Palace, you are a good player,” he said.