Cardiff vs Crystal Palace Live Stream. For Crystal Palace manager Dougie Freedman, Tuesday night's Carling Cup semi-final second leg against Cardiff City is just a ‘small battle’, not really a war.
His club have won that, all things considered. In 2010 Palace survived a 10-point deduction for entering administration and avoided relegation to League One by drawing 2-2 at Sheffield Wednesday.
Under new owners CPFC 2010, a consortium led by fan and businessman Steve Parish, Palace exited administration in August of the year.
Just 18 months on they take a 1-0 lead to south Wales and so are 90 minutes away from a Wembley cup final against Liverpool or Manchester City.
Freedman, 37, said: ‘To be here in that short period of time is wonderful. We’ve been in relegation zones but we’ve turned it around with the exact same squad.
‘They really are a band of players hungry for fulfillment after being knocked down for just two seasons in terms of on-and-off-the-field experiences. They've had to take a lot when it comes to administration and it’s about these guys achieving something I usually knew they might.
‘Nothing can happen to these guys. They’ve held it's place in a situation where they haven’t been paid, didn’t determine the club would definitely exist and last-day relegations.
‘We’re not in a war - we’re in a battle. We have been enjoying ourselves. Nobody expected us to become here.’
Darren Ambrose, who scored the stunning 35-yard goal at Old Trafford that helped Palace to some 2-1 win against Manchester United within the quarter-finals, is one of the Palace players back on their feet after being knocked down in recent seasons. He came close to joining Queens Park Rangers in the summertime of 2010 but signed a three-year deal at Selhurst Park instead.
The 27-year-old said: ‘It’s a great reward for all involved. We were inside a bad place 2 yrs ago (when) the club was nearly not here.
‘For the past two years we’ve been fighting relegation and nearly gone from existence in like manner arrive at the final would be a massive achievement for all.’
Freedman has attempted to ease pressure on his team by wanting to paint Cardiff because the perpetual bridesmaids who always fall on the last hurdle. Under former manager Dave Jones the Welsh side suffered defeats in the play-offs against Reading and Blackpool and lost the 2008 FA Cup final to Portsmouth. It had been Freedman’s assistant, Lennie Lawrence, who oversaw Cardiff’s last success - the 2003 Division Two play-off victory against QPR. Cardiff City vs Crystal Palace Live Stream Free
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