Oliver Glasner would forgive his Crystal Palace players because they are distracted after their FA Cup victory, but he believes that they will not find a motivation on Tuesday compared to wolves.
Palace raised the first major trophy in their 120-year history on Saturday, because the goal of Ebereechi Eze gave them a historic 1-0 FA Cup final victory over Manchester City.
The Eagles became the first English club to win their first big title since Wigan Athletic in the FA Cup 2012-13, which also defeated in the final that year.
Palace is safely nestled in 12th place in the Premier League and it is unlikely that it is higher – or a lower one – before the season is completed on Sundays.
Asked for team news for Tuesday's match, Glasner confirmed that Marc Guehi and Adam Wharton will miss and then added: “I don't know, at the moment, to be honest! We have canceled Sunday's training and we will now train after the press conference.
“We look forward to meeting all players again, but of course I don't know how they will present today. It is now about finding the right motivation.
“We have to think about how we want to enter this week, and especially how we want to end this week, with two games to play.”
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Wolves are two places under Palace and want to go back to winning ways after defeats to Man City and Brighton, who followed a six-game winning streak.
Vitor Pereira expects his team to be confronted with a highly motivated opponent and reporters tells: “I believe that the motivation of the supporters and the team will be at a high level.”
Pereira is one of the five nominees for the Premier League's season prize after he has led Wolves away from a relegation struggle, and he has the feeling that everyone's honor is at the club.
“I am a bit surprised because I came into the competition in the middle of the season, but proud of my players, my staff, the club and the supporters because this is teamwork,” he said.
“It is not just the one who has achieved this. It is certainly something special, and I am very proud.”
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Players to watch
Crystal Palace – Daniel Munoz
This season Munoz is directly involved in nine goals for Palace in the Premier League (four goals, five assists), and helps their opener against Tottenham with their last outing in the competition, while he also won the winner of Eze in the FA Cup final.
No Eagles defender has ever reached double digits for goal involvement in one campaign in the Premier League.
Wolves – Jorgen Strand Larsen
Strand Larsen has made more oriented off-the-ball runs in the box this season than any other player in the Premier League (109).
This season, the Noor has 13 goals in the Premier League-the third best count by a Wolves player in one campaign in the competition after Raul Jimenez in 2019-20-20019 (17) and Matheus Cunha this period (15).
Match forecast – Draw
Palace's thoughts may be elsewhere after their historic Wembley victory, but they still have orientation points to play for.
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The Eagles are on 49 points in the Premier League this season, and by avoiding a defeat in this competition they will reach for the first time since 1991-92 (57) in a season of the top flight (57).
Indeed, a victory would take them to 52 points, which would ever be the most by a Premier League side that has won any of their first eight games in that campaign.
Wolves have lost their last four Premier League matches against Palace, as much as they had in their previous 18 competition visits earlier (D7 L7).
The side of Vitor Pereira, however, has had 10 days to prepare for this game and will be sure to take advantage of any rustiness in the palace ranks.
Palace has only lost their last home competition in one of the last 12 seasons (W8 D3) and dropped 3-1 against Arsenal in 2020-21, so a draw could be on the cards.
Opta wins probability
Crystal Palace – 38.2%
Wolves – 34.7%
Drawing – 27.1%