All eyes
will be on Super Eagles forward Odion Ighalo as Watford face Crystal Palace
today in the FA Cup semi final with intent to pick the remaining finals ticket.
Manchester
United survived a breath taking encounter against Everton on Saturday to
qualify for the Final billed for Wimbley Stadium May 21.
It would be
the 135th edition of the competition considered to be the world's oldest
football cup competition.
Manchester
United have won the cup a record 11 times and ended up as runners up 7
times. The last time the Old Trafford
landlords won the trophy was in 2004.
Watford who will be underdogs against
Manchester United should they succeed in edging out Crystal Palace today, have
only managed to end up as runners up in 1983/84 edition, but have elected to take one match at a time even
as the club's fans expect Ighalo to rise to the occasion and show Crystal
Palace the door today.
Ighalo has made 30 appearances for the club
this season scoring 16 goals in the bargain.
Crystal
palace were FA Cup runners up in 1990, thus today's semi final clash could be
said to battle of the underdogs.
Watford
captain Troy Deeney believes today's clash is a huge opportunity for the
players to write their names into the club's history books
A place in
the cup final for the first time since 1984 is on offer for Quique Sanchez
Flores' men, with Watford having all-but secured their Premier League survival.
Victory over
West Brom last Saturday took them past 40 points in the league, while a 2-1
triumph against Arsenal sealed their last-four spot in the cup.
And Deeney
believes a cup final berth added to their league success would see the current
squad go down in Watford history.
"I was
confident we would do well at the start of the season," he told the club's
official website and then added that the players are determined to become
legend by making history in the FA cup.
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