Crystal Palace vs. Manchester City Free Live Stream (May 17th, 200): FA Cup final on ESPN Plus, start time, TV channel

Crystal Palace FC will look at Haaland and Manchester City FC in the 2025 FA Cup in Wembley Stadium in Wembland, in England, in England on Saturday, May 17th (May 17th, 2025).

As you can see: fans in the USA can view the game exclusively ESPN+ ($ 11.99 per month).

You need to know the following:

What: FA Cup, final

Who: Crystal Palace FC against Manchester City FC

When: Saturday, May 17, 2025

Where: Wembley Stadium, Wembly, England

Time: 11:30 a.m. et

TV channel: N/A

Live stream: ESPN Plus

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Here is a game preview of the Associated Press:

From an Olympic final to a FA Cup final – with a trip to the hospital to remove a “destroyed” ear in between.

For Jean-Philippe Mateta, an impressive striker this weekend at the South London Clubs offer for a first trophy in its 120-year professional history, an imposing striker who will be provided with an impressive stormy striker this weekend in the south of London Club.

When Palace competes against Manchester City on Saturday before the FA Cup final in the Wembley Stadium, Mateta will stand out as the TV camera pans along the two teams.

The 27-year-old Frenchman will wear a protective headgear that contains a thick cover over his left ear, which had to be saved by a plastic surgeon after Mateta was on the way to Wembley on the way to Wembley at the end of a terribly looking, scale challenge.

Mateta needed 25 stitches and almost a month outside of the fact, after the attempt by Millwall, goalkeeper Liam Roberts, at the beginning of the winning of the fifth round of Palace on March 1st at the beginning of the Palace victory. It was described by palace chairman Steve Parish as “the most ruthless challenge on a soccer field I have ever seen.”

Since then, Mateta has not been the same player and has only scored two goals in 10 games since returning to the Palace team.

The psychological effects of the injury could still influence him.

Maybe a long season got him.

While most players broke away in pre-season training in mid-July, Mateta was about to have selected the Olympic men's football tournament as one of the France-selected over Age players for his golden bid on home ground.

Mateta started every game and scored five goals in the final, including a time to compensate for the time to bring the game against the later champion Spain in the Princes Parc.

Nine days later he started on the opening weekend of the Premier League season against Brentford against Brentford.

Mateta will go out in Wembley nine months later – albeit with a new look.

Turnaround under Glasner

In January 2021, Mateta came to Palace by the German Team Mainz, which was initially loaned before making the transmission permanently a year later.

He took some time to adapt to English football and scored three times in his first 20 games in one year when he was not the first choice. In the 2022-23 season, he only scored two goals in 32 games. At that time he might have given up.

After the appointment of Oliver Glasner, his assets changed to the manager in February last year. Glasner was responsible for the last 13 Premier leagues of the 2023-24 season and Mateta scored 13 goals.

Mateta added 17 more goals this season and 14 in the Premier League.

Only Mohamed Salah, Erling Haaland and Alexander Isak have achieved more league goals than Mateta since Glasner's arrival.

Palace Pick-Ups

Mateta, which cost £ 11 million (now $ 14.6 million), is an example of the good recruitment of the palace in recent years.

In January last year, Daniel Munoz met from Genk in Belgium for around £ 7th (9.3 million US dollars) and was a revelation as an attack calculator.

Center Back Marc Guehi came together from Chelsea for £ 18 million ($ 24 million) as an emerging talent in 2021 and is now an established English international for which Tottenham had rejected a reported offer of £ 70 million in the winter transfer window.

Palace has become known as a club that specializes in signing the best young players from the second championship. In recent years, Eberechi Eze and Adam Wharton – both are now England international matches – and Romain Esse, who achieved 25 seconds in his palace debut in January after he had come from Millwall.