Crystal Palace in Final of Fa Cup: 3-0 victory against Aston Villa in Wembley

How the Eagles are flying! Very high fly over the sky of Wembley, pushed towards the Fa Cup final of May 17 from the magic of Eberechi Eze and from the brace in the second half of Ismaįla Sarr, and by the warmth of their enthusiastic fans, who armed with colored balloons of red and blue, like their beloved Crystal Palace, dream of winning for the first time in their history the most ancient cup of world football. One who for them, twelfth in the premier, would also be worth a place in the next Europa League. The step for the third Cup final in its history The Glasner team makes it with a 3-0 at the Aston Villa in front of the over 82 thousand of Wembley, so deserved that the Palace in the start of recovery, before the doubling of Sarr, also misses a penalty with Jean-Philippe Mateta. Tomorrow the Eagles will be in front of the TV for Nottingham Forest-Manchester City, the challenge that from 17.30 Italian will choose the other finalist.

The keys

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This time the Palace is at least sure not to find Manchester United at the last act, as in the finals lost in 1990 and 2016, the two times that the team went closer to the FE Cup. The Eagles have reversed this final: in the cup they managed to express with more continuity than the premier all the nice football that preaches Glasner, who when attacking he sets his own like the City of Guardiola or the Arsenal of Arte, with 5. Players deputies to the offensive phase, including the two exteriors who have worried much more than attacking the Aston Villa than to defend. The first two goals are two wonders, two jokers from outside drawn one by the most talented player in the team, Eze, and another from one who dreams of becoming him, Sarr, who also puts the third goal in the final on the counterattack. Then there are the parades of Dean Henderson, very few smudges, so much organization and the desire to play everything knowing that he has nothing to lose: the Palace among the 4 semifinalists is the only one who has never won the trophy, the only one who is not yet running for Europe from the championship, the only truly “intrusive” at this level of a cup that has experienced a strange season. The Palace, on the other hand, has shown with a beautiful victory that at this level can be very well, and to dream of taking the next level. The Aston Villa can no longer do it: this ko hurts more than the elimination of the Champions League with PSG, because the Emery’s team in the Premier was clearly higher than that of Glasner and on this stage, when it mattered more, it was not. Losing Marcus Rashford for injury before the match did not help, but the Aston Villa now has many alternatives in front, only that he has not been able to find the right one. With Palace he played the game but he never put under his opponents, always risking a lot on the counterattack. Just enough not to go beyond the number 21 semifinal in its history.

The game

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Match blocked up to 31 ‘, when Eze invents a magic from outside the area, impatably putting Martinez. The game lights up, the occasions finally arrive but the recovery begins with the Palace always ahead 1-0. It could last little, because in 51 ‘the referee assigns a penalty to the Eagles (Kamara’s foul on Eze), but Mateta kicks him on the side by chipping the pole right under the curve of his unleashed fans. The 2-0, however, is only postponed to the 58 ‘, when Sarr puts Martinez with an impossible shot from 20 meters. Emery tries to change everything with 4 changes in less than 10 ‘, but the attacks of the Aston Villa always lacks something to become a goal. So Sarr on the counterattack in 94 ‘also puts the third goal. And the feast of the red and blue of Wembley, from the beginning the most unleashed, can begin.