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Nketiah Takes Crystal Palace Past Fulham And Earns Sage Breathing Space

“Can we play you every week?” chanted the Crystal Palace fans as they celebrated a fifth victory over Fulham on their own patch in the space of 18 months. Eddie Nketiah’s first-half goal against the run of play eased some of the growing pressure on Pierre Sage as Palace booked a third consecutive appearance in the quarter-finals of this competition. The good news for Sage is that Arsenal – who beat them on both of those occasions – have already been eliminated. However, he knows that Saturday’s game at Tottenham will have much more bearing on whether he is still around by the time it resumes in mid-December against Sunderland.

For Álvaro Arbeloa, this was a disappointing setback after a couple of weeks of progress. Fulham haven’t beaten Palace here since January 2005 – a run of 10 matches – and will not get a better chance after Sage made 10 changes, including the inspired return of their captain, Dean Henderson, in goal. His save in injury time from Gonzalo García proved crucial and there were boos for Fulham at the final whistle.

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Nketiah Takes Crystal Palace Past Fulham And Earns Sage Breathing Space

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