Key occasions
90 min +6: Gakpo sensationally retains the ball in play down the left touchline, then wins a nook. That needs to be sufficient to get Liverpool over the line. Just.
90 min +5: Jota burns some clock by profitable a free kick out on the left flank. Then Endo flicks a ball heading out for a aim kick out for a throw as a substitute. Hughes then foul-throws. A irritating 60 seconds for the hosts, and there aren’t too many extra of these left.
90 min +4: Szoboszlai sends a weak shot broad left of aim. On TNT Sports, Lucy Ward names Van Dijk as her participant of the match.
90 min +3: Kamada sends a protracted move down the left for Mateta … however Jaroš involves the fringe of his field to assert.
90 min +2: An extended ball down the center of the park. Van Dijk heads again in the direction of his keeper … weakly … however Robertson completes the job and Jaroš gathers.
90 min +1: Jota spins into house down the proper flank. He’s received Diaz clear in the center, however Lacroix slide-blocks to maintain Palace in it.
90 min: There will likely be six extra minutes.
89 min: Jones makes means for Endo. Meanwhile right here’s the official reasoning for not awarding a penalty for Van Dijk’s maintain on Guehi.
#CRYLIV – 71’
The referee’s name of no penalty for the problem by van Dijk on Guéhi is checked and confirmed by VAR – deeming that the problem was not sustained holding and had no impression on the play.
— Premier League Match Centre (@PLMatchCentre) October 5, 2024
88 min: Chalobah is changed by Kamada.
86 min: Gakpo dribbles down the left and cuts infield. He appears for the top-right nook. High and broad. The stress at Selhurst is palpable. Both groups residing on the edge.
84 min: Mateta latches onto a unfastened ball in the midfield and drives Palace ahead. He slips Eze in down the left. Eze opens his physique in the hope of steering a shot into the backside proper … however solely succeeds in slamming the ball into the grateful chest of Jaroš, making his first significant save as a Liverpool keeper.
83 min: Liverpool draw just a little sting from the scenario by faffing round at a few restarts. Professionalism in motion. “If Alisson’s injury troubles continue, it could be him shown the door next summer instead of Kelleher,” spitballs Patrick Crumlish.
81 min: Palace are pushing Liverpool again now, hoping to pile the stress on the debutant keeper. Lerma releases that stress, flaying a preposterous long-distance effort into the stand.
79 min: Jaroš’s first act is to look at a Hughes half-volley sail inches broad of the top-right nook. Meanwhile Robertson comes on for Tsimikas.
78 min: Alisson limps off sadly. For a keeper he doesn’t half decide up some accidents. He’ll get replaced by … Vítězslav Jaroš, as a result of the typical understudy Caoimhín Kelleher is absent himself in the present day. Jaroš, a 23-year-old Czech worldwide, makes his Liverpool debut.
77 min: Alexander-Arnold passes again. Alisson shanks a bizarre clearance out of play along with his left peg, and it quickly turns into obvious why, as the keeper instantly goes down clutching his hamstring. He punches the floor in frustration.
75 min: Nketiah is booked for clambering on the again of Gakpo. All of a sudden, this sport has kicked off a bit. A good probability we would not finish with 22 gamers.
74 min: Tsimikas fouls Sarr out on the proper flank. Sarr waves an imaginary yellow card and receives one himself. Nothing comes of the ensuing free kick, however the Selhurst crowd has its dander up now. Plenty of noise as Palace begin placing themselves about ultimately.
73 min: Hughes is booked for scything Jones from behind. Meanwhile clearer replays of that Guehi penalty declare present Van Dijk tugging away at the defender’s arm. You’ve seen them given.
71 min: Salah is changed by Diaz.
70 min: From the set piece, Chalobah backflicks goalwards. Cute. Alisson punches clear. Guehi thinks he’s being held by Van Dijk however there’s not sufficient in it. Another nook, which ends up in Lerma flipping Tsimikas over whereas his opponent was in mid-air. Lerma is booked.
69 min: Some slack after-you-sir defending by Liverpool permits Mateta to barge his means down the center. He lays off to Eze on his left. Eze blasts a shot in the direction of the top-right nook. Alisson is pressured to palm out for a nook.
68 min: Alexander-Arnold cuts in from the proper and makes an attempt a roller in the direction of the high left. Miles excessive and broad. Both groups drifting just a little bit right here.
66 min: Szoboszlai pings a long-range shot straight at Henderson, who claims. For all Liverpool’s dominance, they’ve not given the Palace keeper an excessive amount of critical work to do. Anyway, apropos TAXING THE RICH … “Not sure if I qualify as rich,” begins Gregory S Crawford, a Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the University of Zurich, “though probably yes as everyone who lives in Switzerland should do … but it’s remarkable how so many of society’s problems could be solved by simply taxing the rich (rather wealth, but six-of-one…). My professional opinion and all. Funny that more people don’t just SAY SO. There might even be an analogy to the sovereign-wealth and private-equity takeover of the Premier League, but fleshing it out is probably too much thinking for a Saturday afternoon.”
64 min: Gravenberch ships possession carelessly, permitting Nketiah a shy at aim from the fringe of the Liverpool D. He lotions an effort in the direction of the backside proper, however Alisson is as much as the problem. A tremendous shot with a save to match.
62 min: It’s Chalobah’s flip to get bodily, with Salah, however he overeggs it. A free kick, 30 yards out, proper of centre. Alexander-Arnold swings it in the direction of the left-hand nook of the six-yard field. Jota meets it, however sends a weak header broad left. He ought to have labored Henderson at the very least. He most likely ought to have scored. In a parallel universe someplace, he’s scored a hat-trick in the present day.
61 min: Hughes’s first act is to wrestle with Alexander-Arnold as the latter dribbles into the Palace field from the proper. It’s a dangerous gambit, however one which pays off, as he earns a free kick, albeit one which’s generously awarded.
60 min: Yep, right here we go. Mitchell and Wharton, the latter carrying a groin damage, are changed by Mateta and Hughes.
58 min: Palace are reaching the sq. root of nowt. TNT pundit Joe Cole has simply described Oliver Glasner as trying “forlorn”. Changes are afoot.
56 min: Gravenberch shoots this time, from 25 yards, however the ball clanks off Guehi. Palace half clear, however Van Dijk quarterbacks from deep, wedging a stunning ball down the inside-right channel for Salah, who traps then shoots. Henderson saves at point-blank vary. That would have been a magnificence.
55 min: A passing transfer, from left to proper throughout the face of the Palace field: Gravenberch, Gakpo, Szoboszlai, Salah,Alexander-Arnold. Too many passes, too few photographs. Palace clear their traces.
53 min: Mitchell makes an attempt to copy Paul Konchesky’s fluke in the 2006 FA Cup last. Nearly. His shanked cross from the left floats over Alisson but in addition the bar.
51 min: Now Guehi wrestles Jota to the flooring on the midway line. No free kick, and the usually placid Arne Slot kicks off on the touchline. He calms down rapidly sufficient, to be honest. That registers about two-and-a-half on our patented Klopp-o-meter®.
50 min: Jota activates a sixpence and appears to flee from Lerma. He’s introduced down from behind. Lerma is barely lucky not to enter the ebook. He may be in one-more territory.
48 min: Alexander-Arnold sends Salah skittering into house down the proper. Salah dillies and dallies and runs the ball out for a aim kick. Uncharacteristically lax.
47 min: Gakpo whistles a cross from the left in the direction of Salah, racing in from the reverse flank. Henderson reads the hazard and intercepts. Otherwise, a quiet begin to the second half. Literally so: hardly a peep from the usually boisterous Selhurst devoted.
Liverpool get the second half underneath means. They’ve changed Mac Allister with Szoboszlai.
Half-time leisure. In which our man fires the opening salvo of a debate which can hopefully finish with every thing nationalised and the wealthy correctly taxed. Game on!
HALF TIME: Crystal Palace 0-1 Liverpool
Liverpool have been by far the higher staff, and will have multiple aim to point out for his or her dominance. But Palace had a aim disallowed after simply 21 seconds, then confirmed indicators of waking up in the direction of the finish of the half, so that they’ll have a platform to construct on. Intriguing and probably very entertaining second half developing!
45 min +2: Sarr has immediately woken up, and now he shoots from the right-hand fringe of the Liverpool D in the direction of the backside left. Alisson will get all the way down to cease with a powerful hand.
45 min +1: The first of two extra first-half minutes passes by with out fuss.
45 min: Sarr and Tsimikas battle for a ball bouncing down the inside-right channel. The ball rears up and hits Tsimikas on the hand, and VAR has a glance, nevertheless it’s not a penalty as a result of the arm was in “a natural running position”, is the newest factor that’s been made up on the spot.
43 min: Mac Allister goes into the ebook for cynically trying to cease a Palace counter by bringing down Eze. He did not make any connection, however the problem was so brazen, the intent was sufficient.
42 min: The ball’s shuttled proper to left throughout the face of the Palace field by Alexander-Arnold and Mac Allister. Tsimikas takes a powerful whack. Lacroix bravely takes the brunt of it to dam.
41 min: Alexander-Arnold delivers. Van Dijk meets at the close to submit, and heads over. Palace counter however the uncommon sortie involves a diminuendo finish as Mitchell’s left-wing cross dribbles by unopposed to Alisson.
40 min: … then immediately the tempo picks up once more, and Gakpo crosses from the left. Guehi is pressured to concede yet one more nook.
39 min: Liverpool are strolling round at the second. Happy to take a seat again and see what’s what.
37 min: The nook’s a non-event. The means Arsenal keep on is tougher than they make it look.
36 min: Jones slips a ball down the left flank for Jota, who swivels to win a nook. Alexander-Arnold slowly trots throughout to take it. While he does that, Richard Hirst has a solution for Gary Naylor of Twenty seventh-minute fame: “Andersen is definitely worth as much to the buying team. Exhibits A and B: Fulham’s league position and their defensive record. He has brought not just his own ability but his leadership and organisational capabilities. A crucial purchase.”
34 min: Gravenberch strides into the Palace field from the proper and rolls throughout to Jota, who ought to absolutely rating from eight yards. But he wafts an terrible sidefoot miles broad left. He was attempting to be too cute there. Time to get the laces by it. It needs to be 0-2.
33 min: Jones has a nibble at Guehi and receives the one-more-and-it’s-yellow lecture from the referee. The ensuing free kick is distributed lengthy into the Liverpool field, and wins Palace a nook, from which nothing comes. But the final couple of minutes have given the Palace devoted some succour, and the noise ramps up accordingly.
