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 a war.
His club have previously won that, after all. This year Palace survived a 10-point deduction for going into 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 this year.
Just Eighteen months on they take a 1-0 result in south Wales and so are 90 minutes far from a Wembley cup final against Liverpool or Manchester City.
Freedman, 37, said: ‘To be here in that short space of time is wonderful. We’ve held it's place in relegation zones but we’ve turned it around with similar squad.
‘They really are a band of players hungry for fulfillment after being knocked down for just two seasons with regards to on-and-off-the-field experiences. They've got had to take a lot in terms of administration and it’s about these guys achieving something I knew they can.
‘Nothing may happen to this business. They’ve been 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 the war - we’re in a small battle. We are enjoying ourselves. Nobody expected us being here.’
Darren Ambrose, who scored the stunning 35-yard goal at Old Trafford that helped Palace with a 2-1 win against Man utd inside the quarter-finals, is among the Palace players back on the feet after being knocked down in recent seasons. He came near joining Queens Park Rangers in the summer of 2010 but signed a three-year deal at Selhurst Park instead.
The 27-year-old said: ‘It’s a fantastic reward for everyone involved. We were inside a bad place 2 yrs ago (when) the club was nearly not here.
‘For the last 2 yrs we’ve been fighting relegation and nearly gone from existence so to reach the final would be a massive achievement for everybody.’
Freedman has tried to ease pressure on his team by attempting to paint Cardiff since the perpetual bridesmaids who always fall at the last hurdle. Under former manager Dave Jones the Welsh side suffered defeats inside the play-offs against Reading and Blackpool and lost the 2008 FA Cup final to Portsmouth. It absolutely was 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