Speaking after Crystal Palace‘s 3-1 win over Millwall that secured a place in the FA Cup quarter-finals, Glasner said that Jean-Philippe Mateta was “conscious” after suffering a “very serious” ear injury following a sickening collision with goalkeeper Liam Roberts’ left boot.
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Read MorePalace confirmed late on Saturday night that Mateta had been released from hospital after receiving “specialist treatment and 25 stitches to a severe laceration to his left ear”.
Parish had said that Roberts “needs to have a long, hard look at himself,” and that he had “endangered a fellow professional maybe even with his life.”
“The good thing is, just imagine if he hits his face straight, with his power, with the studs, it is the end of JP’s career,” he said.
“The risk of a very, very serious injury is just too high, so I think it was the wrong decision the keeper took in this moment, but I always believe in the fair play of sportsmen, I know they never want to injure their opposition players.”
In 2011, Glasner suffered a concussion and a cut above the eye after suffering a clash of heads which developed into a subdural haematoma while playing for SV Ried. Doctors told him he had a 50/50 chance of surviving the operation.
That sense of perspective was evident too when he said in his press conference: “I don’t feel happiness today, still a sadness and doubt [about Mateta].”
Still, the result sends Palace to within one game of Wembley and two from a second FA Cup final in nine years. The Eagles haven’t had an especially taxing run to the last eight, playing lower-league opponents in all three rounds, but progressing to the latter stages would further prove they are on the right path under the Austrian.
“We didn’t train at 80 per cent or a little bit slower or something, it was always 100 per cent,” Rene Gartler, a former player for Glasner at Austrian club LASK, told The i Paper.
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Read MoreIt’s taxing, but players clearly buy into Glasner’s methods. He improves players, with Mateta and Will Hughes the obvious beneficiaries in south London. Maxence Lacroix jumped at the chance to be reunited with Glasner after excelling under him at Wolfsburg.
“At this time I was 28, 29, 30 so you have to think ‘Ok what’s after my active career? What’s the plan? What’s interesting for me?’ He showed me that you can do a lot with a team. He inspired me to get my licenses. He inspired me a lot.”
Glasner is an exceptional coach, that much has been evident during his 12 months in south London, but as Saturday showed he is a fantastic statesman too. Crystal Palace are lucky to have him.
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