Ben Chilwell was delighted to help Crystal Palace win the game but the team will be hoping to achieve more

Ben Chilwell was delighted to play the full 90 minutes in his first start for Crystal Palace and help them advance to the FA Cup, but he said the club would not be satisfied with just a place in the quarter-finals.  

The player made his fourth appearance for Crystal Palace since his loan move from Chelsea and his first start for the team since March 2024. But Ben Chilwell said he kept his nose sharp throughout the game.  

Ben Chilwell said: "It's great to be back. A few of the boys asked me how long it had been since the game and I said about a year. It's great to be back. I feel healthy and feel good.  

“You can train as hard as you can every day and try to get something out of it, but nothing beats a race.”  

"Luckily I felt good going into this game and got into some good attacking positions. I think I got some chances that if it was a couple of weeks later I would have taken, but it was just trying to get back into match fitness."  

"Even in the 90th minute I was still in top form and feeling good. I tried to run in behind and cross the ball and I felt good physically, which is good news."  

Ben Chilwell added: "We knew what this game was going to be like and we didn't think it would be the most exciting game. This is a derby and we knew Millwall would make it difficult. They will make the game intense and their fans will be noisy throughout the game, but our fans are great too."  

"I think we were in control of the game until they scored. But they scored before half-time which was a bit disappointing. In the second half we knew they were going to come back and we were one goal up and they caused us problems again."  

"I think the second half wasn't the performance we wanted, we didn't control the game as much as we wanted. But Eddie Nketiah got the third goal with a great header and that settled us a little bit in the last 10 minutes."  

"I think reaching the quarter-finals of a cup is a great achievement and we won't hide the fact that we want to win the cup. However, it's a one-match-at-a-time thing and we want to go as far as possible in this competition."