Working Class Rayo Vallecano Defy the Odds to Contest Crystal Palace in First European Final
Rayo, led by manager Inigo Perez and striker Alemao, reached the final after two 1-0 wins over Strasbourg.
- On Wednesday in Leipzig, working-class Madrid club Rayo Vallecano faces Premier League side Crystal Palace in the Conference League final, 12 months after celebrating their return to continental football.
- Rooted in their Madrid neighbourhood, Rayo Vallecano's supporters call themselves 'different,' the last of the 'barrio' teams, though internal tensions between players, staff and owner Raul Martin Presa have marked the season.
- Brazilian striker Alemao scored two goals in each leg of the semi-finals to help Rayo earn successive 1-0 victories against Strasbourg, while players complained of 'obsolete infrastructure' and 'deficient conditions' at their stadium.
- Crystal Palace striker Ismaila Sarr leads the tournament with nine goals, but U.S. defender Chris Richards and playmaker Adam Wharton are nursing ankle complaints ahead of Wednesday.
- Victory would make Rayo the first Spanish team to win the Conference League after Real Betis lost the final last year, while Palace seek both a trophy and next season's Europa League place.
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Leipzig (Germany), 26 May (EFE).- Argentine Oscar Trejo will live on Wednesday a dream farewell of the Rayo Vallecano at the Red Bull Arena in Leipzig, where he will play the final of the League Conference in front of the English Crystal Palace in what will be his last match with the Franco-Red T-shirt after ten seasons in the club. Trejo, with the memory already very far from that 29 August 2010, when he debuted with the Rayo in Vallecas in fro…
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MADRID, May 25 : "Twenty-five years on, Europe will see us again," read the banner at Rayo Vallecano's tiny, concrete cauldron a year ago, as fans poured on to the pitch at the Estadio de Vallecas to celebrate the club's return to continental football.What even the most romantic believers at this working-clas
Iñigo Pérez: "We Must Ignore the Spotlights to Go to that Sense of Recreation when You Were a Child"
Iñigo Pérez, coach of Rayo Vallecano, declared this Tuesday that by tomorrow's League Final Conference in front of Crystal Palace they must try to "obviate the spotlights to go to that feeling of enjoyment when playing in the playground when you were a child" and "replicate the good things" that have led them to this stage.The Rayo Vallecano faces in Leipzig (Germany) the first European final in his 102 years of history with the aim of achieving…
Palas and Vallecano in the battle for the Conference League trophy.
Crystal Palace, Rayo Vallecano Set For Conference League Final
Crystal Palace will face Rayo Vallecano in the UEFA Conference League final on Wednesday, May 27, in Leipzig, Germany. The Conference League final comes... The post Crystal Palace, Rayo Vallecano Set For Conference League Final [All You Need To Know] appeared first on Naija News.
The debut Crystal Palace and the little experienced Rayo Vallecano can win the first European trophy of their stories on Wednesday at the end of the Football Conference League in Leipzig, Germany.
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