Oliver Glasner devoted Crystal Palace’s FA Cup triumph to the membership’s followers – and mentioned 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 staff.
Palace did not 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 an additional Europa League marketing campaign.
“Nobody anticipated Frankfurt to win the Europa League and nobody anticipated Crystal Palace to win the FA Cup,” mentioned Glasner, who’s the primary Austrian supervisor to win the competitors.
“You’ll be able to see what you may get when you’re affected person.
“As soccer gamers and managers, the largest success just isn’t lifting the trophy. It is giving tens of hundreds of our followers a second for his or her life. Giving them nice instances.
“Possibly they’ve some issues at house so simply to make them comfortable… 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 got to consider the Wolves recreation on Tuesday.
“We mentioned earlier than the sport that we needed to jot down our personal historical past and we’ve got written an enormous chapter in our historical past, and subsequent yr we’ll do this once more once we play in Europe.
“We’ve got nice characters, such a togetherness, a piece ethic and a powerful surroundings and environment, and that is elementary for reaching unattainable issues.”
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