{"id":197102,"date":"2025-12-17T20:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/197102\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:19:07","slug":"crystal-palace-boss-oliver-glasner-plans-to-rotate-squad-as-daichi-kamada-sidelined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/197102\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner plans to rotate squad as Daichi Kamada sidelined"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crystal Palace<\/a> manager Oliver Glasner says he will field two different starting line-ups for their next two matches to protect player welfare.<\/p>\n

Palace host Finnish side KuPS in the Europa Conference League on Thursday (20:00 GMT), and visit Leeds<\/a> in the Premier League 48 hours later (Saturday, 20:00 GMT).<\/p>\n

The Leeds<\/a> game was moved by the Premier League from the Sunday <\/a>as Palace then face Arsenal<\/a> in the EFL Cup quarter-final on Tuesday 23 December.<\/p>\n

Glasner, who also confirmed Japan midfielder Daichi Kamada faces up to 10 weeks out with a hamstring injury, said it would be “irresponsible” to play the same team twice in three days.<\/p>\n

Palace, fifth in the Premier League, are ninth in the Conference League, just outside the automatic qualification spots for the last 16.<\/p>\n

“No player will start against [both] KuPs and Leeds<\/a>,” said Glasner. “I and we all feel responsible for the players’ welfare. <\/p>\n

“I just spoke to Will [Hughes] and he experienced it a few years ago – when it was on Boxing Day [26 December] and the 28th [December], sometimes there were games, and he played it – but I just think now the intensity of the game has increased.<\/p>\n

“Maybe you can do it once, but it’s our 27th game now [this season], and we have to think further, because we play on the 18, 20, 23 and 28 [December], and 1, 4, 7 and 10 January. Therefore, it’s just irresponsible if we do this.<\/p>\n

“We will start with two completely different teams, but of course the minutes will be shared a little bit if this is possible.<\/p>\n

“I always want to play the best team from the first until the last minute, but this game demands this from us, so that is why we will do it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner says he will field two different starting line-ups for their next two matches…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-197102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}