FA Cup

After finishing runners-up in 1989/1990 and 2015/2016, Crystal Palace won the 2024/2025 FA Cup. This is the first major trophy in the South London club’s history, with Palace having previously had just two second-tier titles and a third-tier title in their honours list. The FA Cup trophy will now take...

Crystal Palace are 12th in the Premier League with 36 points after 27 matches, having won, drawn, and lost nine matches each. With a balanced performance and statistics, Oliver Glasner's side have scored 35 goals and conceded 33. While these figures may seem average at first glance, a closer look reveals that...

The FA Cup final is always a special occasion, but this year's edition promises to be an even more thrilling clash as Man City and Man United face each other in the final for the first time in the tournament's history. The two rivals from the same city will battle...

The FA Cup. A magical competition. While some may argue that the competition has lost some of its spark in the modern game and that some of the “bigger” clubs don’t treat it with the respect it deserves, the magic still remains, and it still provides us with some sensational...

Three days after facing off in a colossal Premier League battle at Stamford Bridge, a struggling Chelsea travel to the Etihad Stadium this weekend to take on the current champions of England in one of the oldest competitions in world football – the FA Cup. Manchester City, six-time winners of...

This season’s FA Cup Final was played between Liverpool and Chelsea. The sides met again already in the EFL Cup Final three months ago. Thomas Tuchel and Jürgen Klopp would be very familiar with each other as this was their fourth meeting this season and with third in this calendar...

The first 2021/22 FA Cup semi-final was played on Saturday - the two best teams in the world, Man City and Liverpool meeting again after playing against each other in the Premier League one week ago. However, this was not even a close tie as Pep Guardiola’s side lost the...

The ambiguity of this current Chelsea side – which likewise speaks for much of the club’s success over the past twenty years – is that the more off-field chaos that ensues, the better and more formidable they seem to become. Saturday's proficient victory against Chris Wilder’s spirited Middlesbrough side encapsulated the...

This midweek had some cup matches across Europe, so we picked the clash between Southampton and West Ham United on Wednesday night as the topic of this tactical analysis. At the St Mary’s Stadium, Ralph Hasenhüttl’s team progressed with a 3-1 victory. Intriguingly, by the time the lineups were announced,...

The 4th round of the 2021-22 FA Cup saw a unique match-up between top-4 challenging West Ham and 6th tier Kidderminster Harriers. The hosts were on a dream Cup run, beating Reading in the previous round to earn a matchup against a Premier League team. Manager Russell Penn had already...

The 2021 FA Cup final clash featured two potential top-4 candidates of the 2020-21 Premier League season, Chelsea and Leicester City. While Leicester City beat Southampton to clinch their ticket to Wembley, Chelsea overcame Manchester City last month for the first time to make it into the finals.  Both the...

With Chelsea having overcome Manchester City in the earlier semi-final, Leicester City and Southampton faced off at Wembley to decide who would join the Blues in the final. Leicester were sitting in third spot in the Premier League, with the Foxes well and truly in a fight for the Champions...

The FA Cup semi-finals began with a clash between Chelsea and Manchester City at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. Both sides have gone through to the UEFA Champions League semi-finals, and this was a chance for both managers to take a step towards another trophy as well. While this was not...

The FA Cup semi-final will be the biggest match of the season so far for both Brendan Rodgers and Ralph Hasenhuttl. Given this season's performances it is perhaps not a surprise to see Leicester reaching the semi-finals, but Southampton's form has been extremely poor for the last few months, which...

Chelsea and Manchester City, who have both just reached the semi-final stage of the UEFA Champions League are about to meet in the FA Cup semi-final, with one of them moving on to face the winner of Leicester City vs Southampton. Manchester City can still theoretically win the quadruple, and...

With a spot in the last four up for grabs, Manchester United travelled to Leicester City in the hope of making another semi-final. The two were already in a fight for second place in the Premier League but with some silverware there for the taking, the FA Cup was a...

With the penultimate month of the 2020-21 season approaching, important clashes have been taking place across different competitions and one such clash was between the Premier League leaders Manchester City and top-four contenders Everton in the FA Cup sixth round. Manchester City came into the clash in good spirits, having...

In the Premier League this season, both Everton and Tottenham have registered themselves into contention for Europa League qualification for next season, with the sides currently sitting 7th and 8th respectively, as of writing. Jose Mourinho’s tactics have drawn some criticism lately due to their defensive nature, while Carlo Ancelotti...

Frank Lampard had it all to figure out, although being a goal up after five minutes, the former Chelsea skipper turned manager looked in command to collect his first trophy in his debut season as Blues boss. Only then to lose his captain César Azpilicueta and talisman Christian Pulišić to...

The 2019/20 FA Cup has reached its climax and with holders Manchester City out of the competition, a new winner will be crowned. Arsenal will take on Chelsea in the final and the fact that it is a London derby means that adding to the usual pressure, bragging rights are...