Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner has challenged his side to match Luton's «aggressive» approach to keep themselves clear of being dragged into the fight for Premier League survival.
Glasner suffered his first defeat since taking over from Roy Hodgson when Palace were beaten 3-1 at Tottenham last weekend.
The Austrian knows things are not about to get any easier when the Hatters come to Selhurst Park determined to end their run of five straight defeats in all competitions.
«In this moment of the season, everybody needs points for reaching their goals. The top of the league, everywhere, going for European places, not getting relegated every team needs points,» Glasner said.
«Luton has had a successful season until now and they will try to show their strengths. If you score most of the goals from crosses, I think they won't start to combine through the middle, because they scored many goals, they have the players for this, they have the strikers who want to have these balls.
»They are very physical, very aggressive in scoring, and they also have their way of playing that made them successful for many years, and you won't change it from one week to another.
«So we expect them to play like they always play with a lot of physicality, a lot of intensity, always pressing, always duels, but of course, then it's up to us to create space.
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»The difficulty is to find the space because you are always under pressure, but if you find it you have opportunities to score.
«This will be the challenge for us, to come out of this high pressure and find the spaces, and attack
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