Glasner: Today the tank was empty
Oliver Glasner gave an honest assessment of a tough afternoon after Palace were defeated by Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium.
In a difficult first-half, the Eagles fell two goals behind after an own goal from Jefferson Lerma and a penalty from Bournemouth's Eli Junior Kroupi.
The second 45 was a much more even contest, but the hosts ended any hopes of a fightback when Brazilian teenager Rayan fired past Dean Henderson with 13 minutes left.
For Glasner, the impact of the long away trip to Kraków showed in the performance on the south coast.
"Today the tank was empty," he told Sky Sports in his post-match interview. "We could see it. The players tried and the second-half was much better, it was a game on the same level.
"First-half it was too much. We couldn't get the turnaround from Thursday evening. The players tried, but I could see it at set plays and the easy mistakes we made.
"It's not to blame anyone. It was just really overwhelming for us, this experience and the win against Shakhtar. Overall, Bournemouth were much the better team.
Glasner made five changes to his starting XI to manage the minutes of his squad, with next week's Conference League semi-final second leg on the horizon.
And the Palace boss then subsequently made a triple change at the break, explaining how he is having to navigate a busy schedule after the game.
"The three subs [at half-time] were planned before," he added. "We wanted the attackers who played on Thursday not to play more than 45 minutes today.
"Normally Will Hughes would have started but he was ill.
"The message at half-time was that the first-half was not us, it's time to show in second-half we can do better and play more in the front [third].
"We had 50% possession in the first-half but no shots. Against a team that presses like Bournemouth, to play square passes around their box doesn't make sense, but that is what we did."
Despite the absence of Hughes and Borna Sosa missing out with a minor injury, the Manager was able to give a positive update on Chadi Riad who was substituted after requiring treatment in the second-half.
"It wasn't an issue, he was just suffering from cramp," Glasner confirmed.