Flores' aggregation are searching to ability their aboriginal FA Cup final for 32 years, but letters that Watford's owners are black with their poor contempo anatomy abuse to casting a adumbration over the big day at Wembley.
Despite accepting Premier Alliance adaptation and adequate a accomplished Cup run, Flores' authority on his position all of a
sudden appears aerial afterwards just three alliance wins in 2016.
Hornets buyer Gino Pozzo is not abashed to alteration managers, with above Atletico Madrid bang-up Flores his fifth arrangement in the amplitude of 12 months if he was assassin endure year to alter Slavisa Jokanovic, who had led Watford to advance from the Championship.
But the 51-year-old Spaniard insists he has acquainted out the rumours to focus on how to exhausted Palace and set up a final affray adjoin Manchester United, who defeated Everton 2-1 in the added semifinal on Saturday.
"This is the time to allocution about Watford, to allocution about Watford admirers and how important this bout is for this club," Flores said.
"It is not the time to allocution about me. I can just address to the Watford admirers that I am absolutely focused and happy.
"I accept an amazing family, amazing kids, I am blessed with my profession and I am absolutely blessed with Watford fans.
"This chat is about this bout and Crystal Palace. The alone affair I am abashed about is this match."
Flores' abatement from adroitness is hasty afterwards he was broadly accepted in the aboriginal bisected of the division for bound establishing Watford as a aggressive force in their aboriginal division aback in the top flight.
'NO FEARS'
While about he charcoal confident, he is absolutely acquainted his job aegis could blow on acceptable Watford's aboriginal FA Cup semifinal aback 2007, so it was no abruptness Flores adequate Ben Watson, Etienne Capoue, Odion Ighalo and Troy Deeney for a 3-1 defeat at West Ham in midweek.
"I consistently plan until the endure moment," Flores added. "I am not the blazon of being who thinks about what will appear in the future, I am consistently active in the present.
"Now what I apperceive is that it is one ages until the end of the division and I wish to adore it. Not to be abashed of anything. No fears. I wish to try to adore it."
Watford accept absent four of their 5 antecedent FA Cup semifinals, with their alone achievement advancing adjoin Plymouth in 1984 in the aureate era of bang-up Graham Taylor and pop brilliant buyer Elton John.
Palace are aback at this date for the aboriginal time aback 1995 and will be encouraged by the attendance on the bank of their administrator Alan Pardew, who abundantly denticulate the champ if they abashed Liverpool in the 1990 semifinal to ability their alone FA Cup final.
The south Londoners aswell accept contempo Wembley success adjoin Watford to animate them afterwards a 1-0 win in the 2013 Championship play-off final, but their afflicted alliance anatomy in 2016 is far added significant.
Palace are still not absolutely safe from assignment afterwards a 2-0 accident at Manchester United in midweek larboard them with alone one win from their endure 18 alliance games.
And Pardew acknowledges the alertness for Wembley has hardly been ideal.
"We're binding amateur in; the run we've had, this is our fourth bold in 12 days. That's a boxy run, if you've got a semifinal, the better bold in this club's history for a while," Pardew said.
"It's traveling to be a bound game. We are two well-matched teams.
"When we're in abounding breeze we accept the bend on them. But their foreground two (Deeney and Ighalo) can do such accident they can accomplish up for any absence they accept defensively."
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