Maxence Lacroix says Palace will give everything for Glasner

maxence lacroix says Crystal Palace want to give everything for Oliver Glasner in the Conference League final against Rayo Vallecano. The defender has been Palace’s most involved outfield player in the competition, and the final now carries a direct prize: a second season following the team around Europe if they beat Rayo Vallecano.

“We’ve got to focus on details because it’s going to be a big game,” Lacroix said. “It’s just one game, so we have to be ready, we have to be focused.” Palace are facing a side he called “a really good team,” which leaves little room for error in a one-off final.

Glasner’s Europa League edge

“He won the Europa League, so he knows how stressful it is and how you have to prepare for this type of occasion,” Lacroix said of Glasner. That experience is part of why Palace’s players have bought into his message, and Lacroix said the manager gave the squad “everything that we need to win.”

“When he came in the training ground, he gave us the desire to fight. This is also really important,” Lacroix said. He added: “He’s really a professional and we want to give everything for him. He gave us everything we need.”

Palace chasing another European run

Last season’s Wembley win gave Palace what the article described as their greatest ever moment, and this final offers a different kind of payoff. Victory over Rayo Vallecano would keep the club in Europe for another season, turning a single result into a longer continental schedule for supporters who have already followed the team farther than most expected.

Dean Henderson’s side goes into a final where Lacroix said the margin sits in the details, the preparation and the discipline of a single match. Palace have already proved they can reach this stage; the test now is whether Glasner’s group can finish the job and make the European run last one more year.