Oliver Glasner

In- instead, it, it feels like they've just sort of said, "Oh, well, you know, we, we had our success.

That's it now." Like, Glasner left 'cause you weren't ambitious enough, and you kind of proved his point.

Um, heading into this one, Palace, no Riyad.

He's done for the season.

Um, could be an interesting one moving forward.

Obviously he knows Glasner's system well.

Not like, not a fantastic fixture this week, but not terrible.

And, you know, Glasner's record is well-documented here as well, so-

Yeah, we spoke about it this morning, yeah.

Um, double Arsenal defense, obviously.

If I'm looking to give myself more crumbs of comfort, I've just asked ChatGPT, uh, like a modern man, to tell me Villa's last, uh, 10 results against Crystal Palace.

Uh, you drew 0-0, you lost 3-0, you lost 4-1, you drew 2-2, and you lost 5-0, all under Glasner I think.

Uh, is there anything in Glasner's teams that made you struggle against them, if you recall or not?

Well, yeah.

C- cannot stand playing against his teams.

Mm.

So it's almost as if, you know, m- managers have got to get the best out of players, and we're hoping that certainly, you know, for you and for us, that's gonna be the case.

Um, but I think, you know, for, for, for you, for y- from your perspective, I think h- having Glasner in is...

And you look at, you know, you look at it from a Nottingham Forest perspective, they're a team who, from an attacking perspective, haven't necessarily lit things up.

And we know Glasner comes in, he sets up his shape really well.

He plays with a structure he's quite comfortable with and players seem to get quite comfortable in it from a defensive perspective.

Then he works his magic with a Mateta or whoever may be, you know, to bring out that, focal point up front to then get the goals, that platform, the structure that's working really well behind them.

So we'll see whether or not Forrest are able to achieve that in this game.

I think the concern for me is for Aston Villa.

It's a game where you're playing a tough opponent in a Glasner team.

We all know they're already going to be tough.

Palace don't have financial constraints.

They won two trophies in each, you know, a trophy in each of the last two seasons and should have been looking to kick on and, you know, move to being where Brentford are and Bournemouth are and Brighton are a top half team challenging for Europe instead it feels like they've just sort of said oh well you know we had our success that's it now like Glasner left because you weren't ambitious enough and you kind of proved his point heading into this one Palace No re-add.

He's done for the season.

What a horrible bit of luck for him.

I can see a way out of this Forest quite comfortably, generally.

I'm not talking about the game here, I'm talking about just broadly, because I think Glasner's putting together a team.

Yeah.

You can see it.

I think James McAteer has looked really good so far.

I think it looks like Glasner's kind of trying to turn him in a little bit into that Adam Wharton role.

I think any player that's just come through the City Academy and has had that...

sort of

so different styles.

They've

gone from Ange to Sean Dyche to Vito Pereira to Oliver Glasner.

didn't it start with Nuno

And normally when that happens, then you get some disjointed performances.

And I think it screams to me that this could be a bit of a disjointed match against the forest side under Glasner, who also trying to get to terms with his way of playing and his Again, like I said, we've seen most of their games so far this season go unders.

It was just that one against Liverpool, which again, I think is one that's not a massive surprise.

You wouldn't necessarily want to be taking that one on.

But they do have a new manager.

I think, you know, he needs to get one over on Oliver Glasner.

He needs to get one to get a win under his belt there because Glasner has more wins under his belt than Unai Emery does in their head-to-head.

But he mentions there as well that Glasner is implementing his style within this club, within this team as well.