The 2025 FA Cup final between Crystal Palace and Manchester City promises to be a cracker, with both sides chasing silverware for very different reasons. Palace have endured plenty of near misses but have never managed to lift the FA Cup before and they are one game from immortality at Selhurst Park. For City meanwhile, this season has been stop/start and with the blues still battling away to secure their place in the Champions League next season, winning the FA Cup would be seen as a decent return for a squad in transition. Wembley will be expectant, and this could be a FA Cup final classic.
Crystal Palace vs Manchester City Best Odds
This should be a very good game at Wembley, between two sides that carry plenty of goal threat.
| Crystal Palace – 18/5 (+360) | Draw – 29/10 (+290) | Manchester City – 3/4 (-125) |
| Over – 10/21 (-210) | 2.5 Goals | Under – 7/4 (+175) |
| Yes – 17/20 (-115) | BTTS | No – 6/4 (+150) |
Crystal Palace vs Manchester City Analysis
There is so much on the line here, for both Crystal Palace and Manchester City.
Crystal Palace
Following their hammering of Aston Villa in the semi-finals, Crystal Palace will be very ready for this one. Oliver Glasner has overseen a real transformation at Selhurst Park in the second half of the Premier League season and silverware would yield a superb season for the Eagles. Aside from never having won a major trophy, European football could be on the agenda for Crystal Palace here and they know they have very little to lose here against City. They troubled the blues at the Etihad earlier in the campaign and will be bang up for this one.
Team news: Chadi Riad and Cheick Doucoure miss out here for Palace.
Crystal Palace Predicted Lineup:
Henderson, Munoz, Guehi, Richards, Lacroix, Mitchell, Hughes, Wharton, Eze, Sarr & Mateta.
Manchester City
It has been a strange season for Manchester City, who have fallen off the pace dramatically in both the Premier League and Champions League. However, the FA Cup has given them their best moments so far this season and they will be eager to clinch some more silverware this term. 2016/17 was the last campaign in which City failed to win any sort of trophy and Pep Guardiola will want to keep that record intact. A limp draw at Southampton last time out was an indicator of the struggles City have endured this term, but they should be up for this one at Wembley.
Team news: Rodri, John Stones and Nathan Ake will miss out here for City.
Manchester City Predicted Lineup:
Ederson, Nunes, Dias, Akanji, Gvardiol, Kovacic, Gundogan, Silva, De Bruyne, Doku & Marmoush.
Crystal Palace vs Manchester City Prediction
The chance to etch themselves into the history of Crystal Palace will serve as the key motivation for the Eagles here and they stand just one game away from FA Cup glory. Manchester City and their players are well versed in big games such as this and the blues shouldn’t be overawed by the occasion, but they have struggled for fluency and consistency this season. Goals could be forthcoming for both sides, with Crystal Palace perhaps ready to create history here at Wembley.
Prediction: Crystal Palace to win the match – 18/5 (+360) – Rhino Bet.
Crystal Palace vs Manchester City – The Ultimate Bet
Crystal Palace to win & BTTS – 5/1 (+500) – Fitzdares
With 11 goals scored between these two sides in the two games played this season, this one could be chaos, with the Eagles potentially having enough to lift the trophy.
