In his final game in charge, Oliver Glasner makes one change from the side which started our semi-final second leg win against Shakhtar Donetsk at Selhurst Park.<\/p>\n
The only change from that last European encounter sees defender Chris Richards, who sustained an ankle injury against Brentford recently, begin the game on the bench.<\/p>\n
Coming in to start in his place is Morocco international Chadi Riad, who yesterday was called up by his country for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Finals.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Adam Wharton has shaken off the injury which he sustained against Arsenal to start at Leipzig Stadium.<\/p>\n
The line-up, in its entirety, sees goalkeeper and captain Dean Henderson go in search of his seventh clean sheet of our debut European campaign.<\/p>\n
He will be protected by a back line of Riad; Maxence Lacroix, who has played the most minutes of any Eagle in Europe this season (1,125); and Jaydee Canvot.<\/p>\n
Daniel Mu\u00f1oz, who celebrated his 30th birthday yesterday, starts on the right, opposite Tyrick Mitchell and flanking Adam Wharton and Daichi Kamada in the centre of the park \u2013 the same set-up as last year\u2019s FA Cup Final victory at Wembley.<\/p>\n
In attack, Palace\u2019s Player of the Season, Isma\u00efla Sarr \u2013 likely to win the Conference League Golden Boot after scoring nine times in the competition, and in each of Palace\u2019s last fie European games \u2013 and Y\u00e9remy Pino will play either side of Jean-Philippe Mateta.<\/p>\n
Rayo make one change from the side which defeated Strasbourg in France in their semi-final second leg: Alfonso Espino makes way for winger Alvaro Garcia.<\/p>\n
Palace: Henderson (GK), Riad, Lacroix, Canvot, Mu\u00f1oz, Wharton, Kamada, Mitchell, Sarr, Pino, Mateta.<\/p>\n
Subs: Matthews (GK), Ben\u00edtez (GK), Clyne, Lerma, Richards, Sosa, Cardines, Hughes, Devenny, Johnson, Guessand, Strand Larsen.<\/p>\n
Rayo Vallecano: Batalla (GK), Ratiu, Lejeune, Ciss, Chavarr\u00eda, Valent\u00edn, L\u00f3pez, de Frutos, Palaz\u00f3n, Garc\u00eda, Alem\u00e3o.<\/p>\n
Subs: C\u00e1rdenas (GK), Molina (GK), Balliu, Espino, Mendy, D\u00edaz, Trejo, Gumbau, Camello, Akhomach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his final game in charge, Oliver Glasner makes one change from the side which started our semi-final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-607194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}