Crystal Palace announced themselves on the main stage of European football with a comfortable 2-0 victory over Dynamo Kyiv at the Lublin Arena, opening their Conference League campaign with a first away win in a major European competition and extending their unbeaten run to a club-record 19 games across all competitions.
Daniel Munoz's looping header midway through the first half and a close-range finish from substitute Eddie Nketiah just before the hour gave Oliver Glasner's side a victory that not even Borna Sosa's late dismissal could spoil. Played 400 miles from Kyiv because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the tie pitted a Premier League side brimming with confidence against opponents long shorn of their European pedigree of old.
Munoz breaks the deadlock at the back post
Palace, demoted from the Europa League after UEFA deemed they had breached multi-club ownership rules, were forced to be patient against a stubborn Dynamo defence. Jean-Philippe Mateta, celebrating his first France call-up, only just failed to make contact with a dangerous Yeremy Pino cross in the 11th minute, while Daichi Kamada's first-half run ended with a tame finish that Ruslan Neshcheret saved comfortably.