Crystal Palace vs Millwall LIVE

The FA Cup fifth round weekend continues in south east London as local rivals Crystal Palace host Millwall face off at Selhurst Park. There may be just eight miles separating the two teams, but this is just the second meeting between the neighbours in 12 years. The Eagles ran out winners in the FA Cup three years old, but before then met in the Championship in 2013.

The Lions could have not have been drawn against Palace at a worse time this season with Oliver Glasner’s side winning away at Fulham before putting four past Aston Villa in preparation for today’s fifth-round clash. Millwall beat Championship table-toppers Leeds in the last round, but have otherwise toiled during February before sneaking past a poor Derby side last time out.

It has been confirmed that Eagles second-choice goalkeeper Matt Turner will start, as is expected in cup competitions, but Glasner is otherwise expected to name a strong line-up for what could be a feisty clash. Follow the game LIVE below with our dedicated match blog, featuring expert insight and analysis from Dom Smith at Selhurst Park.

Crystal Palace vs Millwall latest updates

• GOAL! Harding gives Millwall hope

• GOAL! Munoz doubles up

• GOAL! Tanganga own goal

• NO GOAL! Nketiah denied by handball

• RED CARD! Millwall keeper sent off after seven minutes

Full-time!

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95min: Palace are into the quarter-finals!

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91min: Four minutes added on.

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89min: Munoz is being replaced by Clyne.

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83min: Nketiah doesn’t celebrate much, the commentator suggesting it is because he is from Lewisham, which is Millwall territory. Not too sure about that.

GOAL!

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82min: Game, set and match as Nketiah loops a superb header over Jensen and inside the far post!

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80min: Palace are still struggling to make an impact as the nerves rack up heading into the final 10.

Millwall fans making all the noise.

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75min: Cooper into the book for a shoulder barge on Nketiah.

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70min: Another really good chacne for Millwall as Ivanovic climbs highest to meet a cross, but heads straight at Turner.

Dom Smith at Selhurst Park

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Millwall are due credit for the fight they have shown in this second half. They're still in the game, with 10 men, and it's some good old-fashioned graft that's ensured they are. No signs yet off Palace doubling their lead.

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67min: Triple change for Millwill as Saville, Honeyman and Ivanovic come on for Mitchell, De Norre and Coburn.

CHANCE!

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64min: Millwall should be level!

A superb low cross from Azeez outwide sees Coburn ghost past Lacroix but fail to get a toe on the end.

Any touch and that would h

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63min: Hughes gets absolute pelters from the Millwall fans nearby as he takes a corner, which is played short and the back to the midfielder to float a cross into Jensen’s arms.

Dom Smith at Selhurst Park

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Looks as though Romain Esse is about to come on against his former club. And so too Adam Wharton, whose name is being cheered before he's even stripped and ready to enter the fray.

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57min: Palace starting to find their feet again. Millwall proving a tougher nut to crack in this half.

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54min: Looks like Millwall are preparing some changes, which is notable as they only have one more ‘substitution window’ to use, having made two changes in the first half.

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52min: Millwall sense an opportunity here. Really pushing.

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50min: Millwall win an early corner, which is dealt with easily by Palace.

Visiting fans back in full voice after a half-time reset.

Paris on Mateta and Roberts tackle

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"So far, we know he's got bad gash behind his ear and a head injury. Obviously, he's at the hospital so we hope for the best.

"There's a lot of emotion in football but we need to talk about that challenge. All the time I've watched football, I've never seen a challenge like it. I looked to see how old the keeper is, he's 30 years old and that is the most reckless challenge on a football pitch I think I've ever seen.

"He needs to have a long, long look at himself that lad because he's endangering a fellow professional's life with a challenge like that.

"It's very difficult for me to talk about the rest of the game because we are worried about JP and it's just a terrible, terrible challenge.

"They're all professionals out there and they've got to treat each other like professionals and have a duty of care towards their fellow professionals, you know. And that goalkeeper hasn't had one, and credit to the players, for carrying on.

"If you're kicking somebody in the head with the full force, then God knows what damage has been done to him."

Second half

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46min: Back underway. No changes.

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Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish is speaking to BBC Sport about the Roberts challenge on Mateta.

He is fuming, and rightly so. Full quotes to come.

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I wouldn’t imagine Glasner is concerned by that late Millwall. He knows his team have been in almost complete control in that first half.

Dom Smith at Selhurst Park

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A hit from nowhere, off two Palace bodies, gets Millwall back in the cup tie in the 14th minute of first-half stoppage time.

A sign of things to come after the break? Surely not?

Half-time!

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60min: There’s the whistle!

GOAL!

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59min: Hold on, game on!

In the final minute of first-half stoppage time, Harding drills home after brilliant work from Azeez on the left flank. First cross is cleared but only as far as Harding to first home through a sea of bodies!

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58min: Chilwell getting whistled by Millwall fans for taking too long over a throw in.

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57min: Hughes takes the corner for Palace, which flies into Jensen’s grateful grasp.

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52min: Bangura-Williams into the book for a late lunge on Chilwell.

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49min: Palace fans in full voice, Millwall fans have gone quiet. Don’t blame them, their players know this one is done.

Do feel sorry for Tanganga, who has borne the brunt of it today.

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45min: There will be 13 minutes added on.

Dom Smith at Selhurst Park

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That wasn't a long VAR check at all, and as soon as it's awarded Munoz is darting towards the home fans to celebrate a goal which, you feel, puts Millwall perilously close to exiting the FA Cup this afternoon.

GOAL!

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40min: Munoz darts in at the back post to volley home! It was originally ruled out for offside, but as the ball came off Tanganga, it is awarded!

That was a quick VAR call, was that the semi-automated offside in action?

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37min: Oh my word, Chilwell just hit the crossbar with a volley on the turn inside the area... but he’s a good two yards offside.

Lovely technique.

Dom Smith at Selhurst Park

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Jensen turns to Tanganga there and raises his arms, presumably asking: "Er, why have you just headed it into your own net, mate?"

Palace deservedly ahead and it's a tough gig for Millwall from here...

GOAL!

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33min: It’s been coming! Tanganga heads Hughes' cross into his own net. Tough one to take.

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32min: Another early change for Millwall as Neghli is forced off after being hit by a Chilwell cross, replaced by Bangura-Williams.

SAVE!

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31min: Super, super stop by Jensen to deny Chilwell at the near post!

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30min: Nketiah puts pressure on Tanganga on the edge of the area, which the former Spurs defender deals with well.

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26min: Does already feel like it’s only a matter of time for Palace.

Hughes’ fine low ball into the box finds Eze for a pop at goal, which is saved, and then the follow up header from Lerma is diverted away and eventually Millwall hoof clear.

Dom Smith at Selhurst Park

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Decent chance for Nketiah, but a good save. After his late goal made it four against Villa on Tuesday night, he looks well up for it in the Selhurst sun this afternoon.

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23min: Nketiah bursts into the area and looks up for a team-mate, but his pass is deflected into the grateful hands of substitute goalkeeper Jensen.

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20min: Chance for Millwall as Coburn ghosts into the area and is inches away from getting on the end of a flick on, but Turner is down well to smother.

NO GOAL!

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18min: Nketiah thinks he has fired Palace immediately in front, but he inadvertently handled in the build-up so it’s ruled out.

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16min: Play resumes with a free kick from where the incident happened, dead centre of goal about five yards out of the penalty area... and Eze hits the wall.

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15min: Mateta is now being stretchered off. He is being applauded by the Palace fans.

He is expected to be sent straight to hospital.

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12min: Play is still paused as Mateta is treated on the pitch. He appears to be receiving oxygen. Nketiah is ready to replace him as a concussion substitution.

Dom Smith at Selhurst Park

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A novel moment as the decision is explained over the loudspeaker. Yes, he gets the ball first, but it's the right call.

Totally endangered Mateta. Far from the ideal start for Millwall.

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9min: Mateta is still down, and could well be stretchered off too.

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7min: The VAR is saying he has made contact with studs to the side of the head.. . and Roberts has been sent off!

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6min: Oh wow, Mateta is wiped out by Millwall keeper Roberts! He runs out, wins the ball but follows through with a high boot to the striker’s face.

The referee hasn’t given a card yet but VAR are having a look...

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3min: Palace on the ball in the early stages. We few nice touches from Mateta, looking to find Munoz, before Eze wins a free kick which comes to nothing.

Kick-off!

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1min: Here we go!

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Right, here come the teams!

Alex Neil on Millwall chances

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“We’re confident, that’s the best way to describe it. We’ve been in reasonable form and come into the game believing in what we are doing.

“We’re not daft, we know we are playing a different calibre of opposition today, but we are looking forward to the challenge.”

Oliver Glasner on team news

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“It’s the round of 16, ahead of the quarter-final and two steps away from the final at Wembley. All the teams are playing their strongest teams, and so are we.

“I expect a completely difference game [to the win over Aston Villa]. We have to find solutions in the final third after a very compact Millwall side.

“They are great in transitions, so we will need a very good performance today.”

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Selhurst Park is already rammed. Not long to go now.

Esse chomping at the bit

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One player who will be hoping to get on the pitch today is Romain Esse, who swapped Millwall for Palace during the January transfer window.

Born in Lambeth, the young winger climbed through Millwall’s academy and went on to make 61 league appearance for the club. He then scored with his first touch in the Premier League for Palace.

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It’s a sell out today.

Dom Smith checks in

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Plus, some Eurythmics.

Strong teams

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So, Guehi has shaken off an injury scare to start in what is a strong line-up from Glasner.

Munoz, Eze, Sarr and Mateta also get the nod, with Chilwell at left wing-back.

Millwall are also not messing around, naming a strong side at Selhurst.

Confirmed team news

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Crystal Palace XI: Turner; Guéhi, Lacroix, Richards; Muñoz, Lerma, Hughes, Chilwell; Eze, Sarr; Mateta

Subs: Henderson, Mitchell, Nketiah, Franca, Clyne, Kamada, Wharton, Esse, Devenny

Millwall XI: Roberts; Harding, Tanganga, Cooper, Bryan; Mitchell, De Norre; Neghli, Cundle, Azeez; Coburn

Subs: Jensen, Wallace, Wintle, Emakhu, Saville, Ivanovic, Bangura-Williams, Honeyman, Sturge

Millwall XI

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...and the visitors!

Crystal Palace XI

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Here’s how the hosts look!

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Team news expected in about 15 minutes. The fog has cleared.

Latest odds

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The bookies are backing a fairly straightforward afternoon for Crystal Palace.

• Crystal Palace - 1/4

• Draw - 10/3

• Millwall - 17/2

(Odds via Betfair.)

Head to head

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As mentioned above, there is just eight miles separating these two clubs but they rarely meet.

This is only their second meeting in 12 years thanks in part to the Eagles’ establishing themselves as top-flight stalwarts, as the Lions flitted between Championship play-off hopefuls and mid-table dwellers - plus two seasons in League One.

Their last meeting came in 2022, also in the FA Cup, which Palace won 2-1 thanks to first-half goals from Michael Olise, now at Bayern Munich, and Jean-Philippe Mateta, now one of the Premier League’s star strikers.

Oliver Glasner on Matt Turner starting today

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“Matt was in the goal both games, and he will be starting. But that’s the same. It’s not a gift. He’s just deserving.

“I can see his ambition in training. He’s always giving 100 per cent in every single training [session]. He also deserves some games, and that’s why he will play tomorrow.

“He knew [Dean Henderson was No1] when he arrived. We were always pretty clear. That doesn’t mean he is [second-choice] for the rest of his life, but of course I will never change a goalkeeper if he makes one or two mistakes because they need this confidence. They are so exposed.

“It’s the same with a striker. If he misses one or two chances, you can’t say: ‘Now, you won’t play’. If he never gets chances, okay, you can think about it. But these players need confidence, need trust. I don’t like to change.

“We have two great goalkeepers — two international goalkeepers — and also Remi [Matthews] as the third one, who is really hard-working in every single training [session]. They deserve to play games, and that’s why it is Matt’s time.”

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It’s a foggy morning in south east London.

Score prediction

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Just like this time last season, Crystal Palace are kicking into gear at the right time and warmed up for this cup tie by knocking four past Aston Villa. Millwall could scarcely have been drawn against Palace at a worse time.

Confidence is high at Selhurst, but Millwall will be relatively hopeful of pulling off a cupset having beaten Championship leaders Leeds in the last round despite slightly concerning performance against relegation fodder Derby last time out.

Crystal Palace to win, 2-0.

Millwall team news

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For Millwall, they will be without three cup-tied players in Aaron Connolly, Tristan Crama and Benicio Baker-Boaitey.

The win at Derby also served up a couple of fitness issues, with left-back Joe Bryan forced off with a cut to his foot while Ra'ees Bangura-Williams missed out entirely. The pair, along with Ryan Leonard remain doubts.

Crystal Palace team news

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Oliver Glasner is expected to pick a strong team for this FA Cup tie with a week’s rest afterwards before facing Ipswich in the Premier League. Cup keeper Matt Turner will start but it should otherwise be a fairly full-strength team. Will Hughes is suspended after picking up his 10th yellow card of the season.

Marc Guehi will be fit for the game in a huge boost for Palace. Guehi received treatment on a knee injury following Palace’s 4-1 win over Aston Villa but is available here. Glasner has also confirmed former Millwall player Romain Esse is in line to get minutes, as well as Matheus Franca. Adam Wharton could be rested.

How to watch Crystal Palace vs Millwall

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TV channel: In the UK, the game will be televised live on BBC One. Coverage starts at 12pm GMT ahead of a 12.15pm kick-off.

Live stream: Fans can catch the contest live online via the BBC Sport website and BBC iPlayer.

Welcome

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Good morning and welcome to the Standard’s LIVE coverage of the FA Cup fifth-round clash between Crystal Palace and Millwall.

Kick-off at Selhurst Park is at 12.15pm. Stick with us.