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Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner on his side’s recent performances, which have include back-to-back wins against Liverpool, West Ham and Newcastle: “Of course we hoped that it would happen. Now, the performances are really good, but it’s the same, it’s not [certain] that it happens again in the future, so you always have to deserve it, you always have to work on it.

“This is what I mentioned before, the players give us the confidence because they are listening. Every day we were sitting here and having a meeting and showing them videos and nobody was sleeping, so that gives us good feedback!

“This is the basic for a good relationship and for success. This we could feel from the first day, that they are good characters. This I’ve mentioned very often and I wouldn’t do if I don’t feel it. So the basement is built, but it’s just the basement.

“Now we have 39 points and I think it shouldn’t be our target to say ‘39 points, oh well done, staying in the Premier League’ because then I would say ‘come on guys, go wherever you want and take vacations’ – but no.

“We want to improve, we want to win games, and we have the next chance tomorrow at Fulham.”