Nketiah takes Crystal Palace past Fulham and earns Sage breathing space

<p>“Can we play you every week?” chanted the Crystal Palace fans as they celebrated a fifth victory over Fulham on their own patch in the space of 18 months. Eddie Nketiah’s first-half goal against the run of play eased some of the growing pressure on Pierre Sage as Palace booked a third consecutive appearance in the quarter-finals of this competition.</p><p>The good news for Sage is that Arsenal – who beat them on both of those occasions – <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/oct/27/fleetwood-town-arsenal-carabao-cup-fourth-round-match-report">have already been eliminated</a>. However, he knows that Saturday’s game at Tottenham will have much more bearing on whether he is still around by the time Palace’s Carabao Cup campaign resumes against Sunderland in mid-December.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/oct/28/fulham-crystal-palace-carabao-cup-fourth-round-match-report">Continue reading...</a>