Liverpool crashed into his first first league defeat of the season against Crystal Palace far from his home.
The Premier League champions were beaten 2-1, thanks to a late goal from Eddie Nketiah in the dying minutes of the match. Crystal Palace scored the first goal of the match at the start of the suite of Ismaila Sarr.
They have many opportunities to increase their advantage during the first half of the match, but Alisson Becker produced a remarkable performance to keep his team in the game.
Liverpool improved in the second half and created multiple opportunities to score, and they finally found the back of the net via Federico Chiesa. It seems that they had stolen a point just at the end, but Crystal Palace managed to score from a corner in the last seconds of the match.
Martin Keown believes that the Liverpool star has had a “nightmare” against Palace so far
Jeremie Frimpong made an expensive error
Liverpool manager Arne Slot has now criticized his players for their defense towards the end of the match and underlined a crucial error in Jeremie Frimpong. The international defender of the Netherlands left Nketiah Free in the box while he was preparing for a counterattack, and the Crystal Palace striker took advantage of the situation and found the back of the net.
Slot believes that Liverpool did not have time to score another goal, and they should have focused on the defense.
Arne Slot underlines the FRIMPONG error
“We can only blame ourselves for having defended the way we did it,” said Slot, referring to the error of Frimpong. “One of our players missed because he wanted to play a counterattack, which was not useful because the time had passed, so it was only a question of defending.”, Reports the mirror.
Even if Crystal Palace scored a last -minute winner, they completely deserved the three points. They were the best team, and they should have won the match in depth. It will be interesting to see if Liverpool can improve and bounce back in the coming weeks.
