FA Cup 2025 Highlights & Glasner reaction

Crystal Palace has made every football fan standing on his feet when he raises his first large trophy. The Eagles are the winners of the FA Cup 2025. Oliver Glasner, who took over in 2024, will be one of her greatest only a few months after work, thanks to the goal of Eberechi Eze in 2024.

The Glasner team raised the pressure from Manchester City and managed to block every attack that came in their way. Manchester City tried 23 shots throughout the game when Dean Henderson kept her in chess. Pep Guardiola and his men have the ball for 78% of the game and could not break the Deadlock defined by Glasner.

“You never lost faith in me” – Oliver Glasner after Crystal Palace won the FA Cup 2025

Glasner reflected on the game and recognized the hard work that his team did in the 90 minutes. The Eagles defended from behind and dealt with City in a disciplined way after taking the lead.

Glasner spoke to the efforts of his team and said in his interview after the game:

“I can't believe it, we had to defend so much. The spirit and the togetherness on the pitch were amazing.”

“It was about being patient, we analyzed that you are so good when you give you your bag. We had to be patient, let them cross, defend it and wait for the moment to attack. “

“Special credit for the players, they have never lost the belief in me and the coaching team”, ” he said.

Glasner had a warm message for the fans of Crystal Palace because it will be a night of the celebration in South London. Glasner says that all of this is for fans, continued:

“The greatest success we can have is not to win the trophy. We could give thousands of our fans a moment of their lives. We can give them great times. Maybe they have some problems, we give you hours and days, you can forget all this to be happy.”

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Glasner will lead Crystal Palace to her first appearance in the Champions League 2025/26 season. With the celebrations for the moment, the Austrian will be proud that his group goes down in the history books.

Crystal Palace has been the first new winner of the FA Cup since Leicester City in 2021. With the waiting of the European stage, the recruitment of some top players will not be surprising.