Onana denies new Palace boss Glasner the dream beginning
Premier League: Everton 1 Crystal Palace 1.
The smile was wiped off the face of new Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner by Amadou Onana's late equaliser at Goodison Park last night.
When Jordan Ayew broke the deadlock of a grim battle, Glasner was celebrating with Palace chairman Steve Parrish and club stalwart Mark Bright in the directors' box But their hopes of a much-needed three points were torpedoed by Onana's towering header in the 84th minute that lifted Everton out of the bottom three.
Glasner has replaced Roy Hodgson, who stepped down yesterday afternoon so that Palace could "bring forward their plans to appoint a new manager at the end of the season".
The 49-year-old Austrian, who guided Eintract Frankfurt to the Europa League trophy in 2021, will just be glad Palace were not dragged closer to the drop zone before he takes charge officially for the first time against fellow strugglers Burnley on Saturday.
The last time Palace were at Goodison for their FA Cup third round replay in January, their fans chanted "you don't know what you're doing!" at Hodgson after he had substituted star man Eberechi Eze with his team 1-0 down.
Last night their travelling fans at least acknowledged Hodgson's work for the club over two spells as manager by chanting "he's one of our own" and holding a banner saying "thank you Roy."
Palace came into the game with 10 defeats in the past 16 games but Glasner will have seen enough to encourage him that his new charges can climb to safety.
With Hodgson's long-time No 2 Ray Lewington and coach Paddy McCarthy in charge, they were the more composed team from the start, knocking the ball around with some assurance.
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