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Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner has been speaking to the media before Thursday's Conference League play-off second leg against Zrinjski Mostar at Selhurst Park (20:00 GMT).
The tie is locked at 1-1 after the first leg in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Here are the key lines from his news conference:
- Glasner said there is "still a small question mark" over the fitness of Maxence Lacroix after he was withdrawn in the first leg and missed Sunday's win over Wolves: "He trained in the session [on Wednesday]. In a few situations he could feel a little bit of weariness, but he looks OK. We now have little more than 30 hours [until kick-off], with treatment and everything."
- On Eddie Nketiah's fitness: "Eddie had a setback and it will take him now a few more weeks. We are now at the end of February. We expect him back in training - I think it will be the end of March, but because we don't have games, it looks like it will be April."
- Glasner added: "All others are fine – so nobody returns, but also nobody [new] is injured."
- Asked if he will prioritise Europe, the Austrian said: "We haven't done this last year with the FA Cup. Everybody was surprised when we played our best team three days before the semi-final [last season] - we played at the Emirates and we played the best team - because, for me, the best preparation is confidence and a good performance."
- Questions continue to surround Glasner's future and whether he could leave the club before the end of this season. Asked if defeat by Zrinjski could make Thursday his last match, he said: "I don't know what happens. I know we'll try to win the game tomorrow - that's what we can do. But, on the other side, think about the Premier League. We're three points behind eighth place, and it looks like eighth place qualifies for Europe, with the five Champions League places again next year. So why throw the Premier League away? It makes no sense."
- On upcoming time to rest and reset: "Right now it's always that we have a tight period, but then we have a lot of time to rest. For example, right now, we have at least a few weeks at the end of March because the Manchester City game was moved before the international break, then it's the international break, and then there's an FA Cup round, so that means if we are still in Europe, we have three weeks, and everything between three and four weeks can happen that we don't have a competitive game."
- He does not see rotation as a necessity: "It's always tight and then we have time to rest, and then I don't see any problem. It was more in autumn, when we played consistently for 10 or 12 weeks every third day, we had to rotate a little bit more. But now, the players are fit and that's why we will play always the best team in both competitions."
- Glasner played down the Eagles silverware ambitions: "I don't want to talk now about winning a trophy because we are in the last 32 and it is so far away. We enter every single competition to win it. I think for 120 years, Crystal Palace entered every cup competition to win it. This group of players has done it once, last year. Just one team can lift the trophy at the end."
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