Crystal Palace put the impending departure of Eberechi Eze to one side as they started their Conference League campaign by edging out Fredrikstad 1-0.
The FA Cup winners, who were demoted from the Europa League for breaching multi-club ownership rules, left Eze out of their squad on Thursday night as he closes in on a £60m (€69m) move to Arsenal.
Palace boss Oliver Glasner told Channel 5 that Eze had phoned him earlier to say he was not feeling well, but his absence was a subplot as Jean-Philippe Mateta scored on a historic night at Selhurst Park.
Mateta nodded the hosts in front in the 54th minute in Palace's first match in a European competition, giving them the upper hand over their Norwegian opposition ahead of next week’s play-off return leg.
Battling Hibernian went down 2-1 to Legia Warsaw at Easter Road but Josh Mulligan’s late goal gave the home side a lifeline in the tie.
Jean-Pierre Nsame opened the scoring from the spot following a Rocky Bushiri handball defending his goal and, just before the break, Pawell Wszolek fired in a second from close range.
Hibs came out for the second half fired up to make amends and they got their rewards in the 85th minute with a Mulligan strike to give them hope ahead of next week’s trip to the Polish capital.
Shelbourne 0-0 Linfield
Matthew Fitzpatrick is shown an early red card, for a high challenge on Milan Mbeng
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Shelbourne took a giant leap towards booking their spot in the league phase after seeing off Northern Ireland’s Linfield 3-1 in Dublin.
Harry Wood’s penalty in first-half stoppage time and a goal from Mipo Odubeko a minute into the resumption gave Irish side Shelbourne the upper hand in the contest, after Matthew Fitzpatrick was shown a red card in the 18th minute.
Kieran Offord pulled one back after 53 minutes but Evan Caffrey struck in the final quarter of an hour to restore the two-goal cushion and put Shelbourne in the boxseat ahead of the return leg in Belfast.
Daniel Grant and Daniel Mandroiu struck either side of the interval as Shamrock Rovers came from behind to claim a famous 2-1 win at Santa Clara, who went ahead through Vinicius Lopes in Ponta Delgada.
In the Europa League, Ester Sokler headed a late equaliser as Aberdeen fought back from two goals down to draw 2-2 at home to 10-man FCSB in the first leg of their play-off.
The tie looked to be slipping away from the Scottish Cup winners when the Romanian champions went ahead in the 32nd minute and then overcame the dismissal of Juri Cisotti soon afterwards to double their lead in the first minute of the second half.
However, goals from substitutes Dante Polvara and Sokler in the closing half-hour brought the Dons level and ensured there is all to play for in the second leg in Bucharest next Thursday.