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Nketiah takes Crystal Palace past Fulham and earns Sage breathing space

“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.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 2 sources•1 min read•Updated October 28, 2026, 9:53 PM UTC
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  • 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.
  • The good news for Sage is that Arsenal – who beat them on both of those occasions – have already been eliminated.

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.

Eddie Nketiah steered Crystal Palace into the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup as they won 1-0 at Fulham.

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