REUTERS Jean-Philippe Mateta of Crystal Palace is stretchered off the pitch by medical staff after a challenge by Liam Roberts of Millwall (not pictured) which resulted in a red card during the ...

Mateta was given oxygen on the pitch following the challenge before being stretchered off in a neck brace and taken to ...

LONDON (AP) — Crystal Palace beat 10-man Millwall ... and taken to a hospital with a head injury, with Palace chairman Steve ...

Crystal Palace striker Jean-Philippe Mateta was taken off on a stretcher after suffering a sickening blow to the head following an awful challenge from Millwall goalkeeper Liam Roberts in the FA Cup.

Crystal Palace ... challenge on the pitch-side monitor before he chose to send him off. At half-time, a furious Parish gave an interview to BBC Sport's Kelly Somers. The Palace chairman firstly ...

He was taken straight to hospital. Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish described it as 'the most reckless challenge on a football pitch I've ever seen' when talking to the BBC at half-time.

Crystal Palace's 3-1 win over Millwall to book a place in the FA Cup quarter-final was overshadowed by Mateta receiving eight minutes of treatment on the pitch before he was stretchered off early ...

It was while Crystal Palace striker Jean-Philippe Mateta was ... Oliver dismissed Roberts via a visit to his pitch-side monitor. At the Peninsula Hotel in London on Thursday, Parish was holding ...

He received treatment and oxygen on the pitch before being moved to hospital. And he has fortunately now returned home after further medical treatment. A statement from Crystal Palace on Saturday ...

Crystal Palace confirmed ... Mateta's head with his boot. Palace chairman Steve Parish labelled it the "worst challenge" he had ever seen on a football pitch and suggested that Mateta was lucky ...