Crystal Palace supervisor Oliver Glasner has accused the English Soccer League of displaying an absence of respect in the direction of the Uefa Convention League amid his facet’s fixture congestion.
Palace will play Arsenal within the Carabao Cup quarter-finals on Tuesday (20:00 GMT) in a recreation scheduled to happen within the week after the opposite quarter-finals.
The EFL moved the sport at Arsenal as Palace performed KuPS within the Convention League final Thursday, between Premier League video games in opposition to Manchester Metropolis on 14 December and Leeds United on Saturday.
“That is the one criticism for me to the EFL,” mentioned Glasner after Palace’s 4-1 defeat at Leeds meant they’d received solely as soon as following eight Convention League outings this season.
“I believe to repair a spherical when a Convention League is performed simply reveals additionally the [lack of] respect for the Convention League as a result of they might by no means repair a spherical when there’s a Champions League spherical or a Europa League spherical.
“So I believe that is possibly the issue for the sport now we have to play now, and why now we have to play in three days once more.
“However it reveals that we’re in 4 competitions and we would like these video games, we would like this quantity of video games, and it is to not complain about it.
“We’re by no means complaining concerning the quantity of video games.”
