Palace ‘ready to make history’ – how far can they progress?

Crystal Palace’s fans can now begin to dream, thanks to them.

A 1-0 aggregate win in the Conference League play-off and a spot in the league phase were given by a goalless draw at Fredrikstad.

On the birthday of Oliver Glasner, the manager.

They will discover which six teams are in danger of losing out on a spot in the knockout rounds sometime after 12:00 BST on Friday.

And Palace, who are currently 13 games without losing any games, may be a contender to win it after being demoted from the Europa League for breaking multi-club ownership laws.

With victories in the FA Cup final against Manchester City and the Community Shield against Liverpool, they have already had their most successful year in history.

Glasner told Channel 5: “It is a huge accomplishment to enter the group stage.”

“We had our second goal of the year, and we’ve already accomplished that by the end of August, which is fantastic.

We won the Community Shield first, which we did, and we did it after all the noise of our being demoted to the Conference League.

The third-tier Conference League’s advantages include allowing teams from smaller nations to compete in the group stages and allowing teams with few trophies to succeed.

Chelsea as well.

Prior to last season’s victory in the Conference League, Roma, West Ham, and Olympiakos were the previous champions.

Roma ended a 14-year trophy drought, while West Ham had been playing for 43 years, and the Greek side had never won a European trophy before Olympiakos.

Therefore, a team like Crystal Palace’s ability to win this time is not at all unthinkable.

Only one team per team was present in each of the top seven nations in Uefa’s rankings.

They are Palace, Fiorentina, Rayo Vallecano, Mainz, Strasbourg, AZ Alkmaar, and Santa Clara, who were eliminated due to Shamrock Rovers.

The Eagles actually have better recent pedigree than any of those other teams, and they won the FA Cup in May.

Only Strasbourg (two French League Cups) and AZ (one Dutch title and one Dutch Cup) have won anything out of those teams since 2002.

Chris Richards, the Palace defender, said, “Everyone is super excited.” We have the ambition to win some games in Europe because we are an ambitious club. We are prepared to create history.

In 2021-2022, Boss Glasner won the Europa League with Eintracht Frankfurt.

Glenn Murray, a former Palace striker, said: “Oliver Glasner has done it at the European level. They have a unique talent there to have him as leader.

They will weigh the balance between the Premier League and Europe, in my opinion, and they will navigate it. Hopefully, they will advance.

Matt Upson, an ex-england defender who spent a short time at Palace on loan in 2001, said: “They have shown they can navigate cup competitions.

In the league phase, Palace will host three teams at home and three away.

That means they cannot play many of their rivals in order to win the tournament because they only have one team from each pot and the seedings are not yet known.

However, Shelbourne and Shamrock Rovers, both of which are Scottish sides, could face off in Dublin.

The 36-team league phase’s top eight teams advance to the last 16, with the teams that placed ninth through 24th entering a knockout phase play-off round.

On their way to achieving the title, West Ham and Chelsea both won all six of their group or league games.

Glasner won’t, however, watch the drawing.

Someone will probably tell me who the opposition teams are because we will be watching Aston Villa to prepare for Sunday’s Premier League game, he said.

Palace would have desired to improve on the FA Cup winning team from the past.

They are actually weaker at this point, though.

Three of Fredrikstad’s subs have started more than one Premier League game.

To FFK’s 12, their bench had eight, with two goalkeepers.

Eberechi Eze, a star forward, left for Arsenal in a £60 million deal this summer.

And Liverpool is still interested in captain Marc Guehi, who qualified for both of the Conference League matches.

Since he is out of contract starting next summer, Chairman Steve Parish recently stated that they would sell him for a fee.

After winning the first leg, Glasner reaffirmed that they must keep Guehi for at least the Norwegian game.

There is “keeping Marc for these games has no other option.” He continued, “Everyone knows it. He knows it.”

But those games are now over.

Borna Sosa, a left-back for Ajax, has only been spending about £3 million, while Walter Benitez, a right-back, signed for PSV for free.

This summer, more than 20 Championship signings have been made for at least £3 million.

Palace must complete the transfer deadline on Monday at 19:00 BST if they want to run a regular schedule of Thursday and Sunday games this year.

However, work is still being done.

However, Palace are close to making a move for Manchester City defender Manuel Akanji and are close to signing Villarreal winger Yeremy Pino for $ 26 million.

However, there is still a sense that Palace should not even be present.

They should have qualified for the Europa League group stage by winning the FA Cup.

However, the Conference League play-off round was bumped down due to Uefa’s multi-club ownership regulations, which apply to former Palace co-owner John Textor.

After a protracted legal battle involving Nottingham Forest, Uefa, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and which division Lyon would be in, they had to accept their fate.