Oliver Glasner devoted Crystal Palace’s FA Cup triumph to the membership’s followers – and stated it might take time for Saturday’s historic Wembley win to sink in.
Palace beat Manchester Metropolis 1-0 to win the primary main trophy within the membership’s 120-year historical past and safe a spot in Europe.
Greater than 30,000 followers of the South London membership celebrated wildly contained in the nationwide stadium at full-time – and Glasner was fast to reward them for sticking with the crew.
Palace didn’t win any of their opening eight Premier League video games this season and misplaced 5-2 at Manchester Metropolis and 5-0 at Newcastle in back-to-back Premier League video games in April.
However they finish the season with the FA Cup within the Selhurst Park trophy cupboard and Glasner, who steered Eintracht Frankfurt to Europa League glory in 2021-22, can begin planning for one more Europa League marketing campaign.
“Nobody anticipated Frankfurt to win the Europa League and nobody anticipated Crystal Palace to win the FA Cup,” stated Glasner, who’s the primary Austrian supervisor to win the competitors.
“You possibly can see what you will get if you end up affected person.
“As soccer gamers and managers, the most important success just isn’t lifting the trophy. It is giving tens of 1000’s of our followers a second for his or her life. Giving them nice instances.
“Perhaps they’ve some issues at dwelling so simply to make them blissful… we did it for our followers.”
Requested about how he felt after turning into the primary supervisor to ship a serious trophy for Palace, Glasner added: “For me, the unusual factor is I really feel empty.
“I’ll begin to realise it tomorrow or Monday. The loopy factor is on Monday we’ve to consider the Wolves sport on Tuesday.
“We stated earlier than the sport that we wished to jot down our personal historical past and we’ve written a giant chapter in our historical past, and subsequent yr we’ll do this once more once we play in Europe.
“We have now nice characters, such a togetherness, a piece ethic and a robust surroundings and environment, and that is basic for reaching not possible issues.”
