Oliver Glasner notes Manchester City's weaknesses as they languish at the bottom of the league, while his own team sits in fifth or sixth place

Oliver Glasner revealed that he took advantage of Manchester City's weaknesses in high-intensity runs and short sprinting distances, noting that Crystal Palace excelled in those areas as they are in the top quarter of the league for those metrics. Glasner's team continued their impressive form by securing a 2-2 draw against Manchester City, with the possibility of even securing a win. While he admitted they could have achieved more, he expressed satisfaction with the result and praised his team's performance at Selhurst Park. "We don't see ourselves as unlucky, but it was undeniably a strong performance," said the Austrian manager. "I believe there is more we can improve upon – I have confidence in my players based on what I see in training. There were many positive aspects in today's match."

Have teams learned how to combat City?

"It feels, having led twice, we had moments of being too passive and City is too long in this attacking third with moving the ball, it’s just a question of time where they create chances, because the second goal is just ‘wow’, how they play in these situations.

"And then we had many more other situations for transitions where we lost the ball too quickly, too easily and this is what we have to improve.”

"We started excellent, we scored a fantastic goal, of course, then also City had two, three chances. But overall, it was a good performance, it’s a great week for us, being unbeaten.”

Glasner explained how his team approached the game, having seen how other teams successfully operated against the reigning champions. “City have so much possession in every single game, but they are lowest in high-intensity runs and sprinting distances, and we are fifth or sixth in the league.

"And also the games they [Man City] lost this season, they lost against teams who have high intensity - Bournemouth, Tottenham and Brighton.”

“We were talking about it, that this is a strength of us. The intensity, the runs we can make in behind with our wing-backs, with the strikers. We thought that this could help us to win because beating City with possession is not too easy – I don’t know many teams who can do this, so then you have to find different things and one is intensity, and one is set-plays. This worked quite well.”

Although Palace could have scored more, Glasner feels the result reflected the game in terms of creating opportunities. “We have to be fair, they had two big chances, from [Erling] Haaland, a great save from Dean [Henderson] and [Ilkay] Gundogan hitting the post.

"We had two or three as well, so I think it was a very interesting game for all of us. And in the second half, it was a little bit more, it was not so up and down, because we lost the ball too quickly in the transition. Also many situations because City did it really well, but then we got our moments and we scored from it. Overall I think the result is a fair result.”

The draw follows a 0-1 win at Ipswich in midweek and Palace is now unbeaten in four games. The match against Man City was another sign that Palace is going in the right direction.

“Yes, it’s a confirmation with the result, I think the performance in many games were [already] okay and we played quite well. We have some issues that we know, in every single game, also when we lost, we created chances enough to score goals to win.

"Today it also helps us to score two again. And we get more and more stable in defending as the system gets clearer and clearer, especially for the new players. It goes in the right direction.

“But we are still in the bottom part of the table, and this is not where we want to be. So it’s still: keep going, working hard, try to improve and be open and be not satisfied. So we stay hungry, stay ambitious, and then we go in the right direction.”

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