{"id":745,"date":"2026-05-28T03:48:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/?p=745"},"modified":"2026-05-28T03:48:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:48:48","slug":"oliver-glasner-says-palace-got-what-they-deserved-after-conference-league-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/oliver-glasner-says-palace-got-what-they-deserved-after-conference-league-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Glasner says Palace got \u2018what they deserved\u2019 after conference league win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Departing boss Oliver Glasner felt Crystal Palace finally got \u201cwhat they deserved\u201d after beating Rayo Vallecano 1-0 in Leipzig to win the Conference League and book a place in the Europa League next season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the competition Palace initially thought they had qualified for after the Austrian, who managed his last Eagles match at the Red Bull Arena, led them to their first major silverware when they lifted the FA Cup in 2025, then the Community Shield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then came disappointment in the form of a multi-club ownership conflict and a denied appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, ultimately demoting Palace to UEFA\u2019s third-tier continental competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glasner, speaking after Jean-Philippe Mateta\u2019s second-half goal proved the winner in the 1-0 win, said: \u201cYou need great, talented football players, of course but you need great characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crystal Palace\u2019s Jean-Philippe Mateta celebrates scoring their side\u2019s first goal of the game during the UEFA Europa Conference League Final (Adam Davy\/PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo they deserve all the credit, and at the end it\u2019s now with a one-year delay at Crystal Palace. The players, the club, the supporters all get what they deserved last year after winning the FA Cup, and a spot in the Europa League.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glasner in January announced he would depart Palace at the end of the season, and replied with a firm \u201cno\u201d when asked if the victory had inspired any doubts about his decision to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reality of the end of his tenure only set in, said the 51-year-old, who also led Eintracht Frankfurt to Europa League glory in 2022, at the final whistle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glasner slid face-first through a tunnel of his red-and-blue striped players before they ascended the victors\u2019 podium to collect their medals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some sections of those in attendance booed UEFA officials, including president Aleksander Ceferin, in the post-match ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the feeling in Leipzig was overwhelmingly euphoric for a fanbase who have watched their club bounce back from the brink of administration to, in the span of Glasner\u2019s less-than two-and-a-half-year tenure, win three trophies and a major European title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mateta\u2019s goal was inspired by player-of-the-match Adam Wharton, who will once again leave some scratching their heads as to why he was omitted from England boss Thomas Tuchel\u2019s World Cup squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was his initial shot from range that stung the palms of Rayo keeper Augusto Batalla and fell into the path of the World Cup-bound France international, who poked it home and set Palace on their way to the Europa League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wharton, who was a fitness concern before this contest, later admitted that there was \u201ca lot of doubt\u201d about his ability to start, after having his \u201cfoot in an icebox for the last couple of days, just trying to get the swelling down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t really shoot fully,\u201d he confessed. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t very comfortable, but I\u2019m not going to miss a final for a little swollen ankle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Departing boss Oliver Glasner felt Crystal Palace finally got \u201cwhat they deserved\u201d after beating Rayo Vallecano 1-0 in…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-crystal-palace"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agajahub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}