Palace avoided soiling themselves like Manchester City did, while there are also defences of Mikel Arteta and Mo Salah and Paul Pogba but not Kai Havertz.
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Palace Conclusions
I’m not going to insult anyone’s intelligence by pretending that Crystal Palace deserved to win, but it’s still disappointing that we lost.
*The build-up to the game seemed like one act of disrespect after another: the official sponsored FA Cup Twitter feed releasing a graphic of a combined semi-finalists XI featuring no Palace players; Chelsea fans responded to Saturday’s result with the arrogant assumption that it would be their team against Liverpool in the final. Someone should have probably told Patrick Vieira that he didn’t need to bother turning up on Sunday because the game had been awarded to Roman Abramovich’s side as a walkover. But that’s the thing about Palace: when it seems like they have no chance, that’s when it seems like they have the best chance.
You don’t get to an FA Cup semi-final by accident or by luck alone. However, it should be pointed out that only one of the four sides to get this far faced a non-league side and avoided Premier League opposition, and that was the Pensioners.
*The Palace supporters were one of the highlights of the weekend. They’re easy to sneer at but people who care about something will always be better people than those who say everything is shit in lieu of having a personality, or people who think displaying their support for a team is somehow gauche or beneath them. This game meant a lot to Palace fans, and so it should, because it’s an FA Cup semi-final at Wembley Stadium. Matt Woosnam of the Athletic tweeted a video of the Holmesdale Fanatics at London Bridge station, singing and generally in high spirits but not causing any trouble whatsoever. A far cry from the highest profile video of Chelsea supporters on public transport, because it didn’t…
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