Oliver Glasner: Mateta "lost too many duels"
The Crystal Palace manager has been quite critical of Jean-Philippe Mateta, who he hooked at half-time. Asked if he had made a mistake in doing so, he says he didn’t. “He can do better than he did in the first half,” he said of the striker. “He lost too many duels and too many balls. The mistake I made was to change the system, not to take Mateta off.”
Manchester City 5-2 Crystal Palace
Match report: A goal and an assist and a captain’s display that wrenched the contest from Crystal Palace: here was an afternoon to revel in the sublime talent of Kevin De Bruyne. Jamie Jackson was at the Etihad Stadium to see a master at work …
