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Daily Mail
18-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Dean Henderson reveals eerie FA Cup final premonition as Crystal Palace hero basks in club finally ending silverware hoodoo
Crystal Palace FA Cup hero Dean Henderson has revealed he was told on the morning of his team's famous win that he would save a penalty. Palace keeper Henderson became the fourth in history to save a spot-kick in an FA Cup final, diving to his right in the first half to repel Omar Marmoush's strike. Henderson was perhaps lucky to still be on the field having handled the ball outside his area earlier in the game as City striker Erling Haaland ran through. But afterwards the England international revealed that Remi Matthews, one of the club's reserve goalkeepers, had a premonition at the team hotel yesterday morning. Henderson said: 'To be fair, Remi actually said to me in my room this morning: 'You're going to have a worldie today and you're going to save a penalty and it came true. 'I just said: 'Yeah, I will'. 'Obviously, when he got the ball, I thought: 'Yeah, it's right, it's happening'. 'I genuinely did think it was our time as a football club. 'The fans have been phenomenal. They deserve this day. 'It's been so many years in the making and I just throught that today would be the day. 'We did our homework on the penalties on the morning. He [Marmoush] hasn't actually taken a penalty for City but we know he needs to keep his pace at that side every time. 'We knew if I got a step in early I might have a chance of saving it, which I did. 'He hit it well and thankfully kept it out. 'It's incredible really. So many setbacks, so many disappointments in football. But you keep going, you keep coming back to get the job done. 'Obviously, an Englishman knowing what the FA Cup means, it's actually phenomenal. 'To do it with Crystal Palace is even better. It's so difficult to win this trophy, even if you're a top side.' Palace won the first major trophy in their history thanks to Eberechi Eze's 16th minute strike. Henderson survived the red card moment seven minutes later. 'I actually genuinely thought it was inside the box,' he said. 'I was waiting for it to skip up off the turf because normally it's wet out there but obviously the sun dried it up. 'But obviously it was going away from goal anyway so I'm not so sure what the problem was.'
Glasgow Times
17-05-2025
- Sport
- Glasgow Times
Oliver Glasner hails history-makers Crystal Palace in celebrating FA Cup triumph
Eberechi Eze's 16th-minute goal and Dean Henderson's penalty save paved the way for Palace to land their first major trophy and a spot in the Europa League next season. 'We said before the game that we wanted to write our own history and we have written a big chapter in our history, and next year we will do that again when we play in Europe,' said Glasner. Name a more iconic duo 🤪#EmiratesFACup — Emirates FA Cup (@EmiratesFACup) May 17, 2025 'Today was our day and a day for our fans and it had to happen that we won. It is a strange thing. I feel empty. I will start to realise what we have achieved tomorrow or maybe Monday. 'I don't know when it will come but it is something special.' Glasner, still in his first full season in charge at Selhurst Park, was fighting to save his job following a poor start to the Premier League campaign, where his side collected just three points from their first eight matches. However, they head into the final two games of the season in 12th and with their first FA Cup secured. The 50-year-old Austrian continued: 'The game was so tough. Nobody expected Crystal Palace to win the FA Cup, but you can see what you can get when you are patient as a club, so it is a big credit to the supporters. 'We had a very bad start and usually fans get impatient, but our fans have always supported us. We were lucky a few times today, but when you always stick together in difficult moments, you deserve it. 'I get a feeling from a group of players and I got a feeling in the winter that we could achieve incredible things. 'We have great characters, such a togetherness, a work ethic and a strong environment and atmosphere, and this is fundamental for achieving impossible things. 'The biggest success we can have is not lifting the trophy but giving our fans a moment for their lives. It is a special win for this club, for our fans and for everyone connected to Crystal Palace.' Henderson revealed team-mate and Eagles backup keeper Remi Matthews had a premonition about his monumental penalty-saving moment. He said: 'When I signed here I believed in it. I know what I'm capable of. Getting exposed to this stage I knew today would be a phenomenal day. 'Even sat in bed this morning I was thinking about things, manifesting things. It's just phenomenal to be able to perform like that. 'Remi Matthews actually said to me this morning, 'you're going to have a worldie today and you're going to save a penalty'. 'So it just shows, you talk it into existence and it came true, but I genuinely think that it was our time as a football club. 'The fans have been phenomenal. They deserve this day, and I just thought it's been so many years in the making that today would be the day.'
