Crystal Palace kicked things off Europa League campaign with a regular home win against Lech Poznan.
Last year’s Conference League winners are old men now on Thursday night football and were too strong for their Polish opposition.
Lech may have qualified for Europe’s top competition in back-to-back seasons for the first time from 1982-83 to 1985-86, but they looked very short at Selhurst Park.
World Cup winner Yeremy Pino took just 10 minutes to open the scoring, latching on to a poor throw and running to score.
Defender Chris Richards headed in the second from an Adam Wharton corner, before Jorgen Strand Larsen grabbed the winner before half-time from the spot.
There was a turning point for Palace after the break when Ismaila Sarr made his first appearance of the campaign.
After the late collapse of a proposed move to Liverpool on deadline day, the winger received a mixed reception upon entering the fray, with boos interspersed among the general applause.
Eddie Nketiah also came off the bench to find a late quarter after Radoslaw Murawski had been sent off and it capped off a good week in the Europa League for the English sides.
