Glasner on player fitness, Esse and Mateta's return to form

Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner has been speaking to the media before Saturday's Premier League game against Brentford at Selhurst Park (kick-off 15:00 GMT).

Here are the key lines from his news conference:

• Glasner confirmed Cheick Doucoure and Chadi Riad are unavailable for Saturday's match: "The doctors have to look at them, and let's see how it goes, but no [we don't have a timeframe for their return] at the moment."

• Elsewhere in the squad, he said Adam Wharton, Joel Ward and Matheus Franca are still unavailable. The latter is back in training, but "needs more time on the pitch" to get match-ready.

• Glasner spoke highly of Romain Esse, who joined Palace from Millwall last week: "He's a great profile, a great guy, everything we were looking for. Now it's our job to work with him to integrate him. It's the first time he will be in the squad with us. He's doing really well in training."

• He says he is expecting a "very intense game" on Saturday: "Brentford are very, very dangerous in transition with their pace. So they have a clear [defensive] structure, but they also sometimes press very hard. We think we've found some weaknesses we want to exploit. We want to the game to fit to our style. And then it's who gets it better down on the pitch, because I think Thomas Frank will be preparing in the same way."

• On Jean-Philippe Mateta's return to form: "He was away weeks for the Olympics, lost the final and then had to come back four days before the start of the Premier League. No-one could be ready for the next competition - it's just human. It took him time. I think I benched him two or three times and he always stayed positive. He was always a good guy and hard-working."

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