Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner has urged for a realistic approach to assessing their current situation, as media expectations don?t match reality with the club.
Glasner has been speaking to Sky in his native Austria following a difficult start to the season that?s left Crystal Palace sitting in the relegation zone.
The Eagles are winless in their first seven games, losing five of those as well as dropping points against fellow strugglers such as Everton and Leicester City.
The poor start has eroded the growing confidence at the club after a strong end to last season following Glasner?s appointment.
He and his side went on a superb run in the second half of the season, rocketing up the table to finish tenth, their joint highest finish in the Premier League and over 20 points clear of the relegation battle. That run increased expectations for this season and the hope of an even better campaign this year under Glasner?s charge.
That has not proven to be the case so far, but Glasner insists there needs to be some realism thrown into the assessments currently being made.
?With all the euphoria that was at the end, the fact is that Crystal Palace were five points away from the relegation zone on the 25th day. And in the season before that, after 28 days of play, three points away from the relegation zone,? he said.
?And that’s Crystal Palace. Crystal Palace is not a top six team in England. We know that. And accordingly, yes, we can’t always talk about the last...