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So where does Tuesday’s result leave Palace?<\/p>\n
In stark contrast to his opposite number, Oliver Glasner looked ashen-faced when he addressed the media after the full-time whistle, which was greeted by loud boos from the Palace supporters.<\/p>\n
Having watched his team arrest a 12-match winless run against arch rivals Brighton<\/a> last time out, Glasner looked set to mark his 100th match in charge of the club with another morale-boosting win after Strand Larsen’s double.<\/p>\n But Palace froze after Mejbri had pulled a goal back for Burnley<\/a>, who took full advantage of the hosts’ inertia to inflict one of the most painful defeats of the Austrian’s Selhurst Park tenure.<\/p>\n “It’s not acceptable,” Glasner, who is leaving the club in the summer, told TNT Sports. “I can’t explain it. Maybe [the first 39 minutes] were too easy.<\/p>\n “The start was very good. We controlled everything, [but] I’ve watched all the goals back and it’s just not acceptable how we defended as a team \u2013 just jogging around, not in the duels, not in the second balls.”<\/p>\n Another issue, according to Glasner, is the presence of a Marc Guehi-sized hole in the Palace defence.<\/p>\n The England defender left for Manchester City<\/a> for an initial \u00a320m last month in a move which incurred the wrath of Glasner, who announced his own departure not long afterwards.<\/p>\n “Right now, we don’t have someone on the pitch who leads the team in these moments, who makes players calm and decides the meaning of the game,” he said.<\/p>\n “I praise the boys very often for their effort. When you throw the game away like we did, you don’t deserve to win.”<\/p>\n Palace are still eight points above the bottom three \u2013 a sizeable cushion, but one not comfortable enough for a side with only one win in all competitions since 11 December.<\/p>\n Defeat at home to Wolves<\/a> in their next league game really would set alarm bells ringing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n