Extended Highlights: Crystal Palace 0-1 Liverpool | Gakpo sets up a Jota winner
Watch extended highlights from the Reds' Premier League victory at Selhurst Park thanks to a Diogo Jota goal in the first half for Arne Slot's LFC.
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00:00It's not the bogey ground, it seems you know, Liverpool haven't lost here in ten years,
00:07Palace were managed by Neil Warnock in those days, but there's been some costly slips against
00:12this opposition, more recently the 1-0 Anfield defeat in April that had consequences for
00:17Liverpool's title charge, but it's a dangerous opposition, Oliver Glasner got seven wins
00:22from his 19-game spell last season, he can't buy one this year though, life without Michael
00:28Alise and Joakim Andersen has been hard going, Arnold Slott is wary, they drew at Chelsea
00:34and Man United, they'll feel they should have beat Neverton at Goodison last week as well,
00:39the tide will turn at some point, he's guarding against that being in this early Saturday
00:45kick-off today.
00:48The early start does give them the opportunity to go four points clear at the top of the
00:51table, not that you'll find anybody of an official Liverpool capacity talking about
00:56that too much, what he has been concerned with this week, the Liverpool manager, is
01:01the 62-hour turnaround, it's a big challenge for any manager, and his backroom staff, part
01:07and parcel though, he says, of working at a big club.
01:11He'll have been sympathetic to the load on Diaz, Sobhoslai and Robertson, who have played
01:15all the games as well as the League Cup, Nunes is the other man to drop to the bench from
01:20the side that beat Bologna midweek, he's probably also conscious that their national teams will
01:26rely on all of them heavily this week, so deserved opportunities for two men in form,
01:31Curtis Jones and Cody Gatfoe, Kostas Simicas comes in, Diogo Jota returns to the forward
01:36line as well, making his 100th start for Liverpool today.
01:42Nobody's made more changes to the starting XI than Oliver Glasner in Premier League football
01:46this season, he makes two more, top scorer Jean-Philippe Meteta is dropped to the bench,
01:52that means Eddie Nketiah will play down the middle, Ismail Assar, who's caused problems
01:56before for Liverpool as a Watford player, gets a start too, the boss of Crystal Palace
02:02thinking his pace will cause a problem to Liverpool when they lose possession, Eberici
02:07Ezer who's been involved in most of their goals so far continues an attack, and it looks
02:12like a first-choice back three now for Palace, Trevor Chalabar makes his debut, the man on
02:17loan from Chelsea, Chadi Riyad, Chris Richardson, Chet Thakuri are all out this afternoon.
02:29It's a glorious day at Selhurst Park here, no jacket required for Arnaud Slot, this is
02:34a man that was very much in the eyeline of his former Liverpool manager Simon Hooper
02:40of Wiltshire, you'll remember him I'm sure from that game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
02:45where he sent off Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota back in September of 2023.
02:51Jordan straight into the action with an awkward looking landing, but as you might imagine
02:57in a game here in Liverpool will want no kind of rise in the atmosphere, and Palace on the
03:03attack straight away, and big danger, Liverpool want the offside flag, it's not come instantly
03:08but Hazard eventually against Nketiah who thought he'd had the perfect start to life
03:14in the forward position, the number nine position that he favours most in the Palace line-up.
03:19Well it will be reviewed but I certainly thought Nketiah had gone ahead of the last defender,
03:22there's a couple of challenges there, one from Lerma who went ahead of Gravenberg,
03:27there's a lovely little ball played down the right channel for Sarr, but you can clearly see
03:32that Nketiah's in an offside position, I'll tell you what, what a cool finish though wasn't it,
03:36he just lifted it over the top of Alisson as he came out, he's good.
03:44Palace give up possession under no pressure,
03:53Liverpool will be patient in possession, looking to cool the temperature somewhat,
04:00what has been a pretty robust first 10 minutes here.
04:06As you've seen there, the ball was played out to Simicaz, Gagford gone in,
04:11McAllister's in, it was all too narrow, that's where you've got to try and spread the play,
04:15maybe get two-v-one situations.
04:17That's a nice ball from Simicaz, Liverpool are forwarding numbers here!
04:20And it's Diogo Diotta! Who else?
04:26On his 100th Liverpool start.
04:29Go on, it was a lovely through ball initially,
04:32and here's Odi's width, that's what I'm talking about, look at Munoz,
04:35caught ball watching the wing-back, doesn't see where Gagford's run was,
04:40but the ball was played across the 18-yard box,
04:44you need someone to be in there, and there's Diotta, doing what he does best,
04:50get in front of his marker, gets ahead of Tjallaravonitsj,
04:53pushes the ball beyond Henderson to make it one down.
04:56And there's the reaction of the Liverpool bedroom, Arnaud Schlott, delighted.
05:03Great interception by Simicaz, making a second opportunity to find Gagford.
05:13Footing was from Klein, Wharton can't find range either.
05:17He doesn't look at all happy, Trent Alexander-Arnold from distance needed it,
05:21the hand from Henderson just keeps it out of the back of his net.
05:26And somehow, the temptation from Nathaniel Klein
05:31to find more time than he didn't have, it's gonna be a Liverpool corner.
05:34What about this, he may have just took a slight nick off Tjallaravonitsj.
05:39A strike from Alex, Arnaud Arnaud thought it was in, Henderson was equal to it.
05:46Great touch from Gagford, finds Salah again,
05:50looks interesting this from a Liverpool point of view.
05:56Good block off from Mitchell.
05:59Oh, really well played, Brian Gravenberk opens up his options now...
06:04And it's Diogo Jota, who probably felt it was just a matter of a tap in there.
06:09Brilliant play though, isn't it, as Gravenberk, heavily bowled,
06:13a drive and run into the box, puts it into good...
06:15No, it wasn't, that was a really bad miss.
06:19He can't quite believe it.
06:21Neither can Jota.
06:24You just feel a bit of the frustration leaking in to Selmers Park here.
06:31We're looking to take on Alexander-Arnold, held out by his mate, Canate.
06:35He's been good, Canati, hasn't he?
06:38He had to be patient to get into position after the first game,
06:41when he left out against Ipswich, came on as a sub.
06:44He stayed level, I think, as Milosavic needed the big hand,
06:48and the second save as well from Alisson Becker wasn't far away
06:53Gravenberk was talking about him being completely redundant in this first half,
06:57but how well did he do here?
06:58This is what top goalkeepers do, they're not used for much in the game,
07:02and then they pull off a magnificent save like that to keep the scoreline at 1-0.
07:06Great goalkeeper from Alisson.
07:08Patience key again for Liverpool here, waiting for the right opportunity to play.
07:17Gampo to Gravenberk, there's an open-up for Gravenberk here,
07:20it was a tidy block from Mark Gahey.
07:23Back with Simakas again.
07:30Good feel with this for Liverpool, isn't it?
07:32It's a nice ball as well, looking for Salah, how cool was the control?
07:36Didn't quite get the power on it he wanted,
07:39but Henderson had to do the job from a goalkeeping point of view.
07:42That should have been 2-0, simple as that,
07:45that's a golden opportunity for someone like Mo Salah.
07:48Real danger on paper, isn't it, what Palace's front line looks like now.
07:52Just makes you think Liverpool could really do with finding that second goal sooner rather than later.
07:58They have a free-kicking decent range here, there's the pull from Chalobat.
08:03You still feel there's a lot of opportunities for Liverpool as well.
08:09Surveying his prey, Alexander-Arnold in exactly the kind of range he's proved deadly.
08:19He chooses the provider instead, and again it's another big opportunity for Jota.
08:26That's massive, absolutely, he's got his score.
08:29Simple as that, you've got your score with a wonderful free-kick from Alexander-Arnold.
08:33You think he was gonna hit it with a bit of pace and then just curled it in,
08:37certainly looked like Jota was onside, he's got his eye on it all the way.
08:40I'm not sure why he's trying to do what he's doing,
08:42trying to flick it out and read his steady going in,
08:45and towering the head of Lowe.
08:47Alan Pardew, the former Crystal Palace player and manager.
08:57Wonderful football from Liverpool again,
08:58it was the body swerve from Gravenburgh but robbed by Will Hughes.
09:02And danger here for Crystal Palace again, it's a big save from Alisson.
09:06It was Nketiah who drilled it goalwards.
09:10And there's another signal that Palace aren't done yet.
09:12Yeah, that come from Gravenburgh overindulging in the midfield area.
09:17Just apologised to his team-mates because he knew he should have dealt with it a lot better than he did,
09:21just took too long in possession.
09:23And Nketiah, he had his side foot, he couldn't hit it through the laces with power,
09:27just side-footed it, which made it easier for Alisson to make the save.
09:32It's found its way through to Mateta,
09:34Ezer from distance, another big save from Alisson Becker.
09:37Who's been called upon one too many times, really.
09:41He's not been overly involved, Ezer, but Alisson Becker has.
09:45And he's come out with flying colours.
09:47Yeah, good strike from Ezer.
09:49Mateta with the little ball into him, first touch was good.
09:53Again, I think that's a yard or two to the left of Alisson,
09:57it might have been more troublesome for him, as it was, the keeper dealt with it well.
10:07Palace collect it, do well in possession as well.
10:10Ezer looks for Mateta, and Alisson's just got a problem.
10:14Oh, it's his hamstring.
10:16Liverpool have an extra problem here, because there's no Kevin Callagher on the bench.
10:23But that does not look good at all.
10:25No, it doesn't look good at all.
10:27You can tell by his reaction straight away.
10:32I'm not even sure when he did it, look, he knows he's going off, he's even taken his gloves off.
10:37That is a sizeable, sizeable blow for Liverpool.
10:41So, VÃtas Lev Yaros is the man to come on for Liverpool.
10:48Liverpool are in good hands, we should not paint the picture of this being disastrous,
10:54we don't know what the issue is with Kevin Callagher that he's not involved today.
10:58But they think that Yaros could be a top goalkeeper,
11:02and he's been asked to stay at Liverpool to back up both of them.
11:06Of course, now he will make his Premier League debut.
11:10Big last few minutes for Liverpool now, isn't it?
11:12Just to retain this one-goal advantage, 10 minutes left, plus any added on time.
11:19And they will pump as much into the box as they can, Crystal Palace,
11:22and test this young goalkeeper.
11:24Will Hughes, some distance.
11:26Scampered across to his left there, Yaros, and...
11:30Off target.
11:32Good technique there, wasn't it, from Will Hughes, but it always looked like he was going wide of the goal.
11:40Well, he's certainly played his part in keeping a clean sheet so far, Alisson.
11:44Three or four really big saves.
11:50Somerset back to Gravenbert, Liverpool in a good position here.
11:53Diaz with the turn.
11:55Keeps it brilliantly, Will Hughes back in the way.
11:58He's done really well since he's come on.
12:02Finds Mateta, furthest man forward, it's three against one here.
12:06Mateta finds, Ezer!
12:08Good save.
12:10That's an awful effort, that's an easy save.
12:13Right at him, I mean, what is he thinking?
12:16He can go either way, he can go low to his left, curl it in the far corner,
12:20in the end it's a nothing strike from him.
12:22And that all came from Liverpool, guilty of giving the ball away high up the pitch.
12:26There's not enough numbers back.
12:29Go, go, go!
12:34The away supporters singing about Liverpool's lead position.
12:39They're 20 seconds away from confirming the gap as well.
12:43Here's Savaslai, just misplaced into the pass, looking for Jota.
12:48Will there be one last chance for Crystal Palace here?
12:51They spear the ball forward, there won't be.
12:54Liverpool get the three points, and they are very, very hard-earned.
12:58He's frustrated with something that's happened at the end there,
13:02but his assistant is telling him there to concentrate on the win
13:06as they get in their little huddle.
13:08It's not happened too often in Liverpool's history
13:11that a team has won their first four away games.
13:14We didn't clock up four away from Anfield until December last year,
13:18Liverpool four points clear at the top of the table,
13:21they were made to work for it.
13:23Liverpool at the top of the mountain, but for how long?
13:27It's a big, big test, October, it'll be a big couple of weeks
13:30for the players going away with their countries,
13:32but what a big performance, what a big three points.
13:35It's finished here, Crystal Palace 0-1 Liverpool.