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Palace boss Glasner: Shakhtar very similar to Liverpool

Palace boss Glasner: Shakhtar very similar to Liverpool
Palace boss Glasner: Shakhtar very similar to LiverpoolAction Images via Reuters

Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner has dubbed their clash with Shakhtar Donetsk a "showdown".

Palace face Shakhtar in Poland for tonight's Europa Conference League semifinal first-leg.

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Glasner said in his preview: "We’re all looking forward to this game. It's a big game, a semi-final against Shakhtar Donetsk.

"I think when four teams are left in a competition it means the four best teams are left. That's Strasbourg and Rayo Vallecano in the other semi-final and Shakhtar and us playing here in Krakow.

"We are feeling well. The team is fit. The team is looking forward. We have a good mood. We have a great atmosphere.

"Even when we lost at Liverpool with the performance we showed there we took a lot of positives into the Shakhtar game. The style is a little bit similar.

"Liverpool playing with wingers, Mo Salah and Cody Gakpo, Shakhtar playing with two Brazilians, inverted players in a 4-3-3 structure. This performance at Liverpool gives us a lot of confidence.

"Tomorrow is the showdown, semi-final, big game for all of us, big game for Crystal Palace. Like always, that makes it quite easy for us, the approach is the same: we always want to win every single game and that's what we want to do tomorrow as well."

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