For Palace, the success continued a remarkable spell in their history as they eye a third trophy in what would be just over 12 months.<\/p>\n
After beating Manchester City 1-0 to win the FA Cup for the first time, that achievement should have earned the Eagles a place in the Europa League.<\/p>\n
However, that was taken away from them as they were punished by Uefa for breaching multi-club ownership rules.<\/p>\n
Palace were unsuccessful in their appeal, with Nottingham Forest getting their Europa League spot, while Oliver Glasner’s side dropped into the third-tier Conference League, where they have grown to show their quality.<\/p>\n
After edging past Norwegian side Fredrikstad 1-0 on aggregate in the play-offs, Palace finished 10th in the league phase to advance into the knockout stages and now have a first European final to look forward to.<\/p>\n
Palace had done most of the hard work with their win in Krakow last week, but Glasner will be delighted by his side’s approach in the return against dangerous opponents.<\/p>\n
Shakhtar are on the verge of winning the Ukrainian Premier League and earning a spot in the qualifying rounds for the Champions League. Yet they were again second best to a disciplined Palace side who thoroughly deserved their victory.<\/p>\n
Indeed, the winning margin could have been greater as they created other good opportunities.<\/p>\n
With Palace also beating last season’s league champions Liverpool to win the Community Shield in August, Glasner was already the club’s most successful manager.<\/p>\n
Yet it has been a turbulent season for him and the club.<\/p>\n
The Austrian announced in January he would leave at the end of the season when his contract expires and Palace fell to an embarrassing FA Cup third-round loss to sixth-tier Macclesfield. They also lost captain Marc Guehi to Manchester City, while Mateta expressed a desire to leave too and only a failed medical prevented a move to AC Milan.<\/p>\n
But despite the chaos on and off the field, Glasner’s last game in charge will now be the Conference League final.<\/p>\n
Palace fans, who created a superb atmosphere throughout the match, revelled in the occasion as they chanted “que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be, we’re going to Germany”.<\/p>\n
Indeed they will be, as they have another chance to end the campaign with a trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Palace, the success continued a remarkable spell in their history as they eye a third trophy in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-654778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}