LEIPZIG, Germany: There’s an ironic prize on offer if Crystal Palace can beat Rayo Vallecano in the Conference League final on Wednesday: A spot in the competition Palace originally should have been playing in anyway. A season which began with Palace in court appealing in vain against demotion from the Europa League ends with a chance to win their first-ever European trophy in the competition they didn’t want to play in. The winner gets a Europa League place for 2026-27. It’s the last game at Palace for Oliver Glasner, the club’s most successful coach, before he leaves at the end of the season. If Palace win, “then they play European football in the Europa League next year, and then they get next year what we should have got this year,” Glasner said Tuesday. “I would like to watch on TV that they start the Europa League with the desire and the confidence that they can win the Europa League as well.