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Crystal Palace FA Cup hero Dean Henderson has revealed he was informed on the morning of his staff’s well-known win that he would save a penalty.
Palace keeper Henderson grew to become the fourth in historical past to save lots of a spot-kick in an FA Cup ultimate, diving to his proper within the first half to repel Omar Marmoush’s strike.
Henderson was maybe fortunate to nonetheless be on the sphere having dealt with the ball exterior his space earlier within the sport as Metropolis striker Erling Haaland ran by.
However afterwards the England worldwide revealed that Remi Matthews, one of many membership’s reserve goalkeepers, had a premonition on the staff resort yesterday morning.
Henderson mentioned: ‘To be truthful, Remi truly mentioned to me in my room this morning: “You are going to have a worldie as we speak and you are going to save a penalty and it got here true.
‘I simply mentioned: “Yeah, I’ll”.
Dean Henderson says reserve goalie Remi Matthews foresaw his FA Cup ultimate penalty save
Henderson denied Omar Marmoush from 12 yards as Crystal Palace beat Manchester Metropolis 1-0
Matthews (proper) informed him he would have a ‘worldie’ and save a penalty within the morning
‘Clearly, when he received the ball, I assumed: “Yeah, it is proper, it is occurring”.
‘I genuinely did assume it was our time as a soccer membership.
‘The followers have been phenomenal. They deserve today.
‘It has been so a few years within the making and I simply throught that as we speak could be the day.
‘We did our homework on the penalties on the morning. He [Marmoush] hasn’t truly taken a penalty for Metropolis however we all know he must hold his tempo at that facet each time.
‘We knew if I received a step in early I may need an opportunity of saving it, which I did.
‘He hit it properly and fortunately saved it out.
‘It is unimaginable actually. So many setbacks, so many disappointments in soccer. However you retain going, you retain coming again to get the job finished.
Palace lifted their first ever trophy and booked their place in subsequent season’s Europa League
‘Clearly, an Englishman realizing what the FA Cup means, it is truly phenomenal.
‘To do it with Crystal Palace is even higher. It is so tough to win this trophy, even if you happen to’re a high facet.’
Palace received the primary main trophy of their historical past because of Eberechi Eze’s sixteenth minute strike. Henderson survived the purple card second seven minutes later.
‘I truly genuinely thought it was contained in the field,’ he mentioned.
‘I used to be ready for it to skip up off the turf as a result of usually it is moist on the market however clearly the solar dried it up.
‘However clearly it was going away from aim anyway so I am not so certain what the issue was.’
