Adam Sells’ talking points from Crystal Palace’s FA Cup win over Manchester City

Manchester City Face Familiar Problems To Finish the Season Trophyless

Manchester City lost 1-0 to Crystal Palace in the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium last Saturday, May 17, to finish the season without a trophy. Pep Guardiola’s men were the dominant side in the match by far but failed to break a resolute Crystal Palace defence. Palace, however, scored the all-important goal through a counter-attack to take home their first-ever FA Cup. Manchester City Had Complete Dominance in the Match The Cityzens finished the…

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Stat, Viz, Quiz is the Opta Analyst football newsletter. This week’s edition looks at Crystal Palace’s historic FA Cup win, a pair of busy Bees, and woodwork strikers. Some argue that modern football can be too predictable. However, if you’d said at the start of the 2024-25 season that Liverpool would win the Premier League, Newcastle United would win the League Cup and Crystal Palace would lift the FA Cup, you would likely have been met with a …

Adam Sells’ talking points from Crystal Palace’s FA Cup win over Manchester City

The talking points from Crystal Palace's 1-0 FA Cup win over Manchester City.