Crystal Palace (N) - Sat 17th May, 16:30 | FA Cup Final | Pre-Match Thread

Match Result Prediction?

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Gray said:
Bollocks to that.

The FA Cup is the oldest trophy in football, I for one want to see us parading round the pitch with it later today.
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I'll be massively gutted if we don't win it. I will just be a little bit more gutted if we end up missing CL football
 
samuelyeboah said:
i am honestly more bothered by the bournemouth game at this point. we can live without an FA cup this season. we are in serious trouble without CL football next season.
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I agree. Bigger picture matters more. We are about to do a rebuild that will define our next 10 or so years. It matters a lot whether we will bring the likes of Wirtz or MGW etc. People will take your post out of context but it's not like you don't want to play our best 11 today. I assume you do. You're just pointing out the fact that our next 2 league games have enormous implications long-term, whereas an FA Cup final loss does not.

We definitely want to win it today, and we will give it our best shot, but CL is more important for us long term than one FA Cup Trophy. If we get the wrong players, we won't be seeing it anytime soon. Get the right ones, and we will be seeing it on a regular basis in the next decade. People here act like we are Man City and players should want to join us just for that, but that used to be united. We don't want to get arrogant and cocky like them. Look what happened to them in the last 10-15 years or so.

I say let's get the FA Cup AND the CL qualification. Both massive for us.
 
Could be a season were the underdog or teams that haven’t won a trophy for years eventually do,Newcastle league cup,Liverpool title,spurs Europa league,Bologna Italian cup,PSG champions league,palace fa cup ?
 
youngbob said:
Not too bad if he starts that team, although have a feeling Bernardo will be in for Rico and Akanji will be in for O'Reilly.

Currently predicting:

Ederson
Nunes Dias Akanji Gvardiol
Bernardo Kovacic Gundogan
De Bruyne Haaland Marmoush
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If O'Reilly doesn't deserve to start the final then nobody does.
 
Crooked_rain said:
Can't imagine Haaland not playing if he is indeed fit to play

You could count on one hand the amount of times he's been dropped unless it's fitness related or we field a purposely weak side to rest players.

If he played last week, id be shocked if he gets dropped today
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I reckon Haaland will have it in his contract
Fit to play he starts
 
samuelyeboah said:
i am honestly more bothered by the bournemouth game at this point. we can live without an FA cup this season. we are in serious trouble without CL football next season.
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If the players can't win 2 games in 8 days whilst drawing the other one then they don't deserve it.

As fans though I find this opinion bizarre, I personally couldn't give a shit about Bournemouth right now.

We've got an FA Cup Final in 2 hours, I'll be gutted if in 4hours if Palace are the ones lifting it. Certainly wouldn't be ah well, let's go and qualify for the CL again. I won't remember qualifying for the CL in 10 years but I'll never forget an FA Cup win.

Losing Cup finals is a bad habit to start picking up.

As I said though, they're good enough to be doing both and they better start showing it.
 
Silva&Silva said:
If O'Reilly doesn't deserve to start the final then nobody does.
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He definitely deserves to start and I still would tbh. Just can’t forget a few weeks back at the Etihad, before Palace completely imploded Nico was getting annihilated down his side by Munoz and Sarr. They could very easily have put that game to bed in the first half getting in behind Oreilly.

That being said I’d still feel more confident with Ruben and Josko in the middle than Akanji so I dnno
 
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