⚽UEFA Conference League Discussion Thread -- 2025/26 | Final

[buwaytress]

Man, Rayo did it again. But they needed the win. No one comes without shellshock to their pitch and they usually lose away when opponents don't have to figure out potholes haha. Strange season but this is the true fairytale of Europe. Not Wrexham haha.

P.s. A bit lazy to clean up but will do so at some point.

[LTU_btc]

Crystal Palace made big step towards the final. They beat Shakhtar 3:1 on away game. How many seconds it took them to score first goal? 25? Such early goals is something that I can't explain, how you can concede immediately on first attack?
Rayo Vallecano 1:0 Strasbourg. Very boring game to watch with lack of quality, that's all I can say about this game.

[MK-74]

It was a bad night for Shakhtar Donetsk. They lost 3-1 to Crystal Palace, and I honestly expected them to lose. Crystal Palace are a tough opponent, so the result is not surprising.
Shakhtar Donetsk’s chances of reaching the final are probably around 1 percent now. Next week they will play away and need to win by at least a two goal margin. In other words, they need a miracle.

Rayo Vallecano 1-0 RC Strasbourg match ended like this and nothing is decided yet for these two teams. We will find out next week which team advances to the final.

[Ruttoshi]

Crystal Palace made big step towards the final. They beat Shakhtar 3:1 on away game. How many seconds it took them to score first goal? 25? Such early goals is something that I can't explain, how you can concede immediately on first attack?
Rayo Vallecano 1:0 Strasbourg. Very boring game to watch with lack of quality, that's all I can say about this game.

Crystal Palace proved their supremacy over the Ukrainian club as they went to humiliate them at home. Crystal Palace has all the qualities it take to get the trophy this season because they're from England and England teams are always strong in any European competition.

Shakhtar will visit Crystal Palace at home, I hope to see more goals from Palace since the have all the space and flexibility to play with ease. I believe it's a sure win for Palace.

[Adiljutt156]

It was a bad night for Shakhtar Donetsk. They lost 3-1 to Crystal Palace, and I honestly expected them to lose. Crystal Palace are a tough opponent, so the result is not surprising.
Shakhtar Donetsk’s chances of reaching the final are probably around 1 percent now. Next week they will play away and need to win by at least a two goal margin. In other words, they need a miracle.

Rayo Vallecano 1-0 RC Strasbourg match ended like this and nothing is decided yet for these two teams. We will find out next week which team advances to the final.

Today we watched semi final match between Crystal Palace football team and Shakhtar Donetsk football team and that was one sided match because one team gave great effort in this match and that team did 3 goals in this match and opponent team could do only 1 goal in this match. Sarr was a person who did first goal of the match and he did this goal at 1 minute of the match and he gave good start to his team and after that goal another person did goal in this match and he did this goal at 58 minutes of the match and that was important goal because they need to do more goals in this match and they are looking like winner in this match and they easily won this match at the end due to their top quality performance.

[CLS63]

And Shakhtar are out of the Conference League by 5-2 on aggregate. I must say I was disappointed with their performance in the first leg above all.

But I understand as they don't have a great squad for going all in for the championship in this tournament. Crystal Palace are even the biggest contender for it with their much stronger squad. 

I still liked the work Arda Turan has done with his opportunity. I know him from the Turkish league before as a skilled manager.

[Abu-Naim]

And Shakhtar are out of the Conference League by 5-2 on aggregate. I must say I was disappointed with their performance in the first leg above all.

But I understand as they don't have a great squad for going all in for the championship in this tournament. Crystal Palace are even the biggest contender for it with their much stronger squad. 

I still liked the work Arda Turan has done with his opportunity. I know him from the Turkish league before as a skilled manager.

From how they play in the first leg, I gave up, they can compost with Crystal Palace especially as they will use the victory in the conference League final to qualify to the Europa League as they are not around the will qualify to any European competition based on their league position.

Now, the final will be between Crystal Palace and Rayo Vallecano, I will expect Palace to win the conference league, and another England team Aston Villa to win the Europa League and maybe another English team Arsenal to win the Champions League.

This season, English teams have tried their best to be in the finals of all the top three European competition, this shows how competitive the league is and the premier is the best league in the world.

[Volgastallion]

Im very happy to see Rayo Vallecano in the final of this Conference League they are a very small club and also a team who is in one of the most poorest areas of Madrid so they represent that social strait and they beat one team who is full under the influence of other teams and is part of a much bigger conglomerate of teams so is better to see the normal football winning against the football of the enterprises.

[pawel7777]

It's not much of a surprise that Crystal Palace managed to eliminate Shakhtar and got through to the final, but their performance in the 2nd leg game yesterday could be seen as somewhat disappointing, despite another win. I feel like they could've dominated Shakhtar if they wanted to, but instead they set themselves a little bit too defensively and allowed Shakhtar to take the initiative with 61% ball possession. Palace still got what they wanted, but could have declassed Shakhtar with a much higher win.

As per current odds, Palace are said to be ~60% favourite, which I think is fair. Hopefully Palace would be successful in avoiding relegation before the last game of the Premier League, so they can prioritise Conference League final, which is to be played only 3 days after their last league game against Arsenal.

[MorganaX]

Im very happy to see Rayo Vallecano in the final of this Conference League they are a very small club and also a team who is in one of the most poorest areas of Madrid so they represent that social strait and they beat one team who is full under the influence of other teams and is part of a much bigger conglomerate of teams so is better to see the normal football winning against the football of the enterprises.

It's very nice to see such a low rated team like Rayo Vallecano that isn't even considered a big team in the Spanish La'liga to have even made it this far, this is something really special for Spanish football seeing that they could make it to the finals of this competition in a season where the elite Spanish teams didn't perform as good as a lot of people would have anticipated, and this could be even more better if they could go all the way to win it and make history with this small club from Spain.

Before they made it to the competition in the first place shows that they have really improved although I have not followed up the team but I know for a certain that they have upgraded just like the way Girona once did in their last season campaign but currently they have fell short so badly that I hardly notice or see any upset that they have gotten in the league but as for Rayo vallecano, they worth and deserve everything they are currently enjoying and hopefully they get to seal it off with a big victory at the finals too.

[LTU_btc]

Im very happy to see Rayo Vallecano in the final of this Conference League they are a very small club and also a team who is in one of the most poorest areas of Madrid so they represent that social strait and they beat one team who is full under the influence of other teams and is part of a much bigger conglomerate of teams so is better to see the normal football winning against the football of the enterprises.

I'm also happy for Rayo. As you say, it's small club with worst stadium in league. Even if it's club from Spain, they weren't favorites, unlike Crystal Palace, Fiorentina or Strasbourg. I want to see another fairytale of underdogs. Yeah, they won't be favorites in the final, but I want to see history being made. Rayo in their history haven't won any titles. They won 2nd and 3rd division multiple times, but it's not trophies.

[buwaytress]

Poor Ajax, couldn't even score a goal, so they missed out on Champions League, missed out on Europa League, and must now enter playoffs for next season's Conference. Hope they just lie down and die on that one, don't even want to see them playing in Europa with the crap they've been offloading.

P.S. Finally cleaned up this thread a little.