Crystal Palace cruise into FA Cup semi-finals as Eberechi Eze inspires thumping 3-0 victory over Fulham

Crystal Palace produced a textbook away performance to beat Fulham 3-0 at Craven Cottage and reach the FA Cup semi-finals for the sixth time in the club’s history.

The victory was built on the creative brilliance of Eberechi Eze, who scored one and made one in a devastating five-minute period towards the end of the first half.

On a glorious day in west London, Fulham made all the early running and might have taken the lead when Rodrigo Muniz and Andreas Pereira missed decent chances.

Adam Wharton was lucky not to receive a second yellow card for a kick at Muniz, but after a difficult start, Palace started to play the game on their terms, absorbing pressure and hitting Fulham ruthlessly in transition.

Eze flashed a brilliant curling shot into the far corner to put Palace ahead in the 34th minute, then set up Ismaila Sarr to flick a smart header past Bernd Leno.

Fulham threw everything at Palace in the second half but struggled to create clear chances. They were picked off in the 75th minute when Daichi Kamada played in the substitute Eddie Nketiah for the third.

Palace have now won six away games in a row without conceding a goal, and their counter-attacking style should be perfectly suited to playing at Wembley. On current form, nobody will want to face them.

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Crystal Palace are into the FA Cup semi-finals for only the sixth time in their history: 1976, 1990, 1995, 2016, 2022 and now 2025. With the form they are in right now, they have every reason to believe they can finally win the thing.

This has been a textbook away performance from Palace: withstand early pressure, score, score again, withstand early second-half pressure, score a third.

Eberechi Eze, whose creative brilliance decided this game, gets a big hug from his manager as he leaves the field to be replace by Matheus Franca.

Clyne is booked for something or other.

Nathaniel Clyne and Justin Devenny come on for Daniel Munoz and Ismaila Sarr.

A smart shot on the turn from Muniz is blocked at source by Richards. He's had an outstanding game.

Tom Cairney replaces Alex Iwobi. The game is up and both teams know it. An afternoon that started so positively for Fulham has turned into a bit of a nightmare.

Crystal Palace are off to Wembley! Daichi Kamada and Eddie Nketiah, who have been on the field for less than five minutes, combine to put Palace 3-0 ahead. Kamada slipped a nice through pass, and Nketiah opened his body to finish through the legs of Leno. It was tight for offside, really tight, but the goal stands and Palace are heading for only the sixth FA Cup semi-final in the club's history.

Lacroix is booked for taking too long over a Palace free-kick.

Raul Jimenez and Ryan Sessegnon come on for Willian and Antonee Robinson.

Eddie Nketiah and Adam Wharton replace Jean-Philippe Mateta, who worked hard with little reward on his return from that horrible injury, and Daichi Kamada.

Willian cuts inside from the left and hits a deflected shot across goal from 20 yards. It might have been going wide but Henderson took no chances and pushed it wide.

The resulting corner bounces towards Bassey in the six-yard box. He loses his balance but still manages to drag a shot towards goal that is superbly blocked by Sarr.

Sarr gallops into the area from the right, then loses his balance under pressure from Andersen and goes over. Sarr looks pleadingly at the referee but nobody else seemed interested.

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Adama Traore and Emile Smith Rowe replace Andreas Pereira and Sasa Lukic.

There's no way through for Fulham at the moment. They've had almost all of the ball in the second half but can't get behind this Palace defence.

Castagne wins another corner for Fulham. Willian takes and Richards - who has cleared a number of corners today - heads away.

Muniz waves his hands in frustration when the referee Darren England doesn't play the advantage. Palace are managing the game expertly, through fair means and occasionall foul.