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Previous meetings: Crystal Palace 1-0 Man City, 2025 FA Cup Final

By far the most famous recent meeting between these two sides came in the FA Cup final last season, where Palace met City at Wembley hoping to land their first ever major honour.

City unsurprisingly dominated early on but they were left shocked when a superb Palace counter ended with Eberechi Eze sweeping a great finish past Ortega to give Palace the lead on 16 minutes.

Controversy soon came as Dean Henderson avoided getting a red card despite clearly handling the ball outside of his area and potentially denying a goalscoring opportunity.

City were enraged but they soon had a golden chance to get back into it as Bernardo Silva won a penalty in the 36th minute. However, they were left in yet more anger as Henderson saved it, a man who perhaps shouldn’t have been on the pitch denying them an equaliser.

And in the end it was enough to win the FA Cup in the most dramatic of circumstances, with Eze, Wharton, Mateta and co. delivering Palace’s first ever major trophy at Wembley.

Outgoing Crystal Palace shareholder John Textor says he was worried about the club’s European position immediately after they won last season’s FA Cup (Adam Davy/PA) (PA Wire)