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If their progress towards the last eight will be forever defined by an ear almost removed by the studs of the boot of a goalkeeper, Crystal Palace has made their way in the last four with a little more surgical precision.
With Fulham, open open and the quarter -final sewn with two goals in the first five minutes.
The first, a sublime strike from Ebelechi Eze, who then became a creator for the second, marked by Ismaila Sarr.
From this moment, Oliver Glasner never seems to lose. They let their hosts have the ball and dominate possession while they were protecting the advance and caused problems with the counterattack.
Eddie Nketiah marked the third to put an end to any hope of response, after getting out of the submarines bench to replace Jean-Philippe Mateta, who was playing for the first time since the fifth round when he was injured by a flying kick of the Millwall Liam Roberts goalkeeper.
Palace returns to the Wembley stadium for the semi-final next month in the hope of reaching its first FA Cup final since 2016 and a first major trophy.
Crystal Palace had to survive a strong opening of Fulham. The local team came out of energy inside Craven Cottage and took control of the first half hour.
Willian had an influence and Rodrigo Muniz disturbed the halves of the center of the palace, but the visitors held firm. They blocked the shots and were defensively committed to protect their goalkeeper.
When Fulham penetrated the red and blue shield, their finish dropped them. Muniz rolled light inside two minutes and slipped a wide -wide football football from the distant post. Andrea Pereira drew another good luck from wide after Calvin Bassey and Willian connected to the left.
Palace twin threats on the sets have been still present. Jefferson Lerma struck the bar in the 26th minute, connecting beautifully on the fly outside of his right boot to send an authorization from Alex Iwobi behind on a crowded penalty. Lerma’s sublime effort beaten Bernd Leno, beaten against the goal and far.
Six minutes later, Eze broke the dead end with a lens of no less technical shine. Collect a short pass inside by Tyrick Mitchell, the square cut in England cut along the edge of the penalty surface. He beat Sasa Lukic to make room to pull and wrapped the low ball, beyond Leno and in the foot of the distant post.
It was a delicious goal and after scoring, the first Eze did the second. His first dribbling at the bottom of the left was interrupted, but Palace won the ball and a pass from Lerma sent him again in the bottom on the left.
The defenders of Fulham froze, undoubtedly concerned about his audacity with a sparkling end and what had happened before, but Sarr was in motion, from the deep to the nearby post and Eze chose it, with a cross cut on its way.
Sarr beat Leno with a head and a palace of closer look, the damage caused in clinical fashion and the atmosphere inside Craven Cottage has been transformed.
Glasner had the hosts where he wanted them, happy to let them dominate possession, trusting his defensive unit to keep them at a distance and his advancing players to threaten the counterattack again. This defined the pattern for the second half.
The first changes of the Fulham boss Marco Silva were to send the pace of Adama Traore and the craft of Emile Smith Rowe. Dean Henderson saved in Full Stretch, a deviated effort from Willian, and Sarr has traveled a corner with Bassey hidden.
But Palace resisted and submarine Kamada and Nketiah combined to see them through the fence minutes without alarm.
