We can’t have seven midfielders if we play with two

Crystal Palace boss OIiver Glasner on Jairo Riedewald, who will be leaving the club in the summer: “It’s a decision speaking to the Sporting Director and speaking to the Chairman and then we all three decided.

“When you take our central midfield, we have Adam Wharton, we have Will Hughes, we have Jefferson Lerma, we have Cheick Doucoure coming back for the next season, we have David Ozoh, we have Naouirou Ahamada, so we have six players for two positions.

“It’s nothing to do with his individual quality, he’s a great player, he’s a fantastic guy, a really nice guy, so it’s nice to have him here, but we can’t sign seven central midfielders if we play with two.

“Some decisions are not to say we don’t believe in the quality of the player, it’s just we have to see the whole squad and what’s necessary and what’s important for the team.”

‘Wolves have a lot of quality’

Crystal Palace boss OIiver Glasner on his opponents Wolves: “Wolves have a lot of quality, as I mentioned in offence. They play very aggressively with high intensities.

“If we win we overtake them, they have their last game at Liverpool, and then we are at home to Aston Villa, so it could be that we overtake them in the table, so everybody knows this, and it’s no secret.

“At the end of the season, no team has secrets [of how they play], you can watch all the games, you can analyse everything, and now it’s important to show your best performance, to be ambitious, and if you think you can play with 98%, you will lose the game.

“Every Premier League game, every league game all over the world – if it’s in the German Bundesliga, in [Spain’s] La Liga, everywhere, if you don’t perform at your best level, you will lose the game. This is the challenge that every team has, after a very long season.

“I think especially the English teams, you could see it in the international competitions, that it’s a very long season, with no break in the winter, and then whatever it is, so our players look fresh, and that’s important, because we have to be fresh, we have to be sharp, otherwise it’s impossible to take the win.”