There is so much to love about this FA Cup final between Crystal Palace and Manchester City at Wembley on Saturday.
Can Palace win a first-ever trophy in their 119-year history? Can City salvage some sort of pride from their season by winning the FA Cup and couple that with Champions League qualification?
Palace are the underdogs but this feels very different. Oliver Glasner’s side will be very confident of causing an upset considering how unpredictable Pep Guardiola’s City have been throughout this season.
For live updates and highlights throughout Crystal Palace vs Manchester City, check out PST’s live blog coverage below.
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Kick off time: 11:30am ET Saturday
Stream: ESPN+
Crystal Palace vs Manchester City score: 1-0
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Crystal Palace vs Manchester City live updates! — By Joe Prince-Wright
Half time: Crystal Palace 1-0 Manchester City
Everything that could go right went right for Palace in that first half. Eze scored a beauty with their only real chance, Henderson saved Marmoush’s penalty kick and plenty of decisions have gone in their favor. Palace are 45 minutes away from the first trophy in their history. Man City are knocking at the door and the first 15 minutes of the second half are going to be so crucial.
Henderson denies Doku, then De Bruyne fires over
Jeremy Doku cuts inside and curls a beauty towards the top corner but Henderson makes a fine save. Marc Guehi then heads clear with two City players challenging him and the ball drops to Kevin de Bruyne but he fires over wildly. City pushing hard before half time for an equalizer.
Bernardo Silva wins a penalty kick... but Henderson denies Marmoush!
Tyrick Mitchell slides in and brings down Bernardo Silva in the box. He did get a slight touch on the ball but that was after Silva went down. The Palace left wing-back knows he shouldn’t have slid in. Omar Marmoush takes the ball from Erling Haaland but the Egyptian hits a poor penalty kick which Henderson saves. Massive celebrations from the Palace faithful. Wow. Henderson probably shouldn’t be on the pitch, remember...
DEAN HENDERSON.
— Emirates FA Cup (@EmiratesFACup) May 17, 2025
The @CPFC shot-stopper with an incredible save to deny Omar Marmoush from the spot 🤯#EmiratesFACup pic.twitter.com/Mxf5URv9K6
Dean Henderson breathes a huge sigh of relief
Palace’s goalkeeper gets this wrong as he comes off his line with Erling Haaland charging towards him and just swipes the ball away. Replays show that Henderson handled the ball just outside the box and VAR has a good look at it. They decide that Henderson handling the ball outside of the box wasn’t stopped an obvious goalscoring opportunity and the Palace goalkeeper survives what would have been a red card. That seems like a huge let-off for Palace.
Sarr denied by Ortega!
Palace are flying now and Munoz is found on the right and whips in another great cross. This time Ismaila Sarr arrives and his low effort is saved and then collected by Ortega.
Eze fires home! — Crystal Palace 1-0 Manchester City
Palace lead! A long ball up to Jean-Philippe Mateta sticks and he finds Daniel Munoz who whips in a brilliant cross for Eze to finish. After all of that early Man City pressure, Palace lead with their first attack of the game.
CRYSTAL PALACE STRIKE FIRST IN THE FINAL 😲
— Emirates FA Cup (@EmiratesFACup) May 17, 2025
Who else but @EbereEze10!? 🤩#EmiratesFACup pic.twitter.com/CQGR9cUFPl
Akanji heads over
City have looked dangerous so far from corners and another is whipped in. This time Akanji gets his head to it but it loops over.
Dean Henderson denies Erling Haaland!
Really good save from the Crystal Palace goalkeeper. A cross is clipped to the back post and Erling Haaland is lurking. He manages to get something on it but Henderson saves across his goal. Bright start from City.
Team news is in!
The lineups have been announced and for Palace it’s exactly as you would expect with Adam Wharton fit to start in central midfield. But Pep Guardiola has gone all-out attack with his starting lineup, with Kevin de Bruyne and Bernardo Silva the two deeper central midfielders and the quartet of Savinho, Marmoush, Doku and Haaland in attack. Wow. That is brave from Guardiola and I don’t think Palace were expecting that.
It's a beautiful day for an #EmiratesFACup Final 🤩 pic.twitter.com/4xlHdbwyBK
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Crystal Palace lineup
Henderson; Richards, Lacroix, Guehi; Munoz, Wharton, Kamada, Mitchell; Sarr, Eze; Mateta
Manchester City lineup
Ortega; Akanji, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly; De Bruyne, Silva; Savinho, Marmoush, Doku; Haaland
