Liverpool supervisor Arne Slot hailed Crystal Palace’s taking part in type after the Eagles ended the Reds’ unbeaten begin to the season with a last-gasp 2-1 win at Selhurst Park.
Substitute Eddie Nketiah bagged a 97th-minute winner after Federico Chiesa had levelled following an early Ismaila Sarr goal to increase Palace’s personal unbeaten run to 18 matches and raise Oliver Glasner’s males as much as second within the Premier League desk.
Regardless of defeat, Slot’s aspect will stay high of the pile no matter outcomes elsewhere this weekend, and the Liverpool boss was fast to spotlight the strengths of their South London opponents.
“[It was a] very troublesome first half for us. They [Palace] did rather well and we have been fortunate it was solely 1-0. The second half was the other,” mentioned Slot.
“Set-pieces have been certainly one of our larger strengths final season, however we conceded two at Newcastle and two right now so we have to do higher. This league is increasingly more and extra about set-pieces.
“Their type matches rather well with the gamers they’ve – low block, quick gamers and a very good goal man on the counter-attack – and we had plenty of issues with that within the first half.”
Liverpool are again in motion in simply three days’ time once they make the journey to Istanbul to play Galatasaray on the notoriously intimidating Rams Park within the Champions League on Tuesday.
Palace are additionally on the highway in European motion subsequent week, taking over Dynamo Kyiv on the Lublin Area in Poland within the Convention League on Thursday.
