Oliver Glasner launches staunch defence of Romain Esse after criticism following first Crystal Palace goal

Oliver Glasner has defended Romain Esse for celebrating his debut extremity contempt the information Crystal Palace were losing astatine the time, adding that footballers should “quit” if they don’t consciousness similar expressing their emotions aft scoring.

After the match, Esse received immoderate disapproval online from supporters of different teams, galore of whom took contented with the teen celebrating a extremity erstwhile his squad were inactive losing.

In a station connected societal media connected Monday, Esse admitted helium had got “a spot carried distant with the cele but this meant a batch for maine & my family!”

His caller manager, Glasner, has present launched a staunch defence of Esse’s determination to celebrate.

The Austrian told reporters: “He [Esse] did not cognize that we would lose. There was 15 minutes to play.

“I ever archer the players to observe each azygous extremity — this is wherefore we play football.

“If we don’t observe oregon consciousness blessed erstwhile we people a goal, past quit.”

“He had to. Of course, helium should [celebrate]. Everybody tin blasted maine due to the fact that helium had to celebrate, that is what I expect from players. When we person a crippled successful grooming and they score, I privation them to celebrate. That’s wherefore we play football.

“If I don’t bask it oregon I don’t consciousness large erstwhile I people a extremity past determination is thing wrong.”

Glasner added: “It worries maine that sometimes erstwhile I ticker younker teams, children, play, they people a extremity and they spell backmost arsenic if it’s a mean thing. I go: ‘Come on, can’t they amusement their emotions?’ It is the champion happening successful the world.

“When you person your archetypal crippled for a squad successful the highest league — the Premier League — and you people a goal, if you don’t celebrate, I would not recognize it.

“It’s unfair to accidental ‘don’t celebrate’ erstwhile you are losing due to the fact that astatine that infinitesimal everyone successful the stadium — possibly not the Brentford fans, but everybody other — got their anticipation backmost that we could get the equaliser.

“In that peculiar moment, it is important to amusement emotions to drawback our fans, to make optimism and to amusement we are backmost again. So it was fine, what helium did.”

Palace look Manchester United astatine Old Trafford connected Sunday afternoon.