{"id":58471,"date":"2025-08-10T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58471\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:10:09","slug":"community-shield-liverpool-vs-crystal-palace-result-highlights-dean-henderson-saves-in-penalty-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58471\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Shield, Liverpool vs Crystal Palace; result, highlights; Dean Henderson saves in penalty shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crystal Palace has won its second trophy in the space of a few months, upsetting Premier League champions Liverpool in a nervy penalty shootout win in the FA Community Shield.<\/p>\n

Goalkeeper Dean Henderson was the shootout hero as a Liverpool side bulging with hundreds of millions of dollars of debutants could manage only two conversions from the spot, having led for much of regular time.<\/p>\n

The Reds’ big-name recruits combined to produce the side’s two goals and stop what looked a likely Crystal Palace winner on Sunday afternoon (early Monday AEST) but the London team pegged back its more highly fancied rivals twice in regular time before triumphing 3-2 in the shootout.<\/p>\n

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Crystal Palace goalkeeper Dean Henderson saves a penalty.\u00a0Photo by Clive Mason\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Liverpool superstar Mohamed Salah blasted the Reds’ first penalty over the bar in a harbinger of what was to come, before Henderson saved smartly from Alexis McAllister and Harvey Elliott.<\/p>\n

Palace also missed two penalties but Jean-Phillipe Mateta, Isma\u00efla Sarr and a nerveless Justin Devenny did enough to slay another giant, having beaten Manchester City in the FA Cup last season.<\/p>\n

“The familiar Dean Henderson smile, the familiar Dean Henderson penalty saving act, and in the space of four months, Palace (are) Wembley winners three times in a row,” Daniel Mann said on commentary for Stan Sport.<\/p>\n

“FA Cup semi-final, FA Cup final, and now the Community Shield, these are heady days for these Selhurst Park followers and special days for (Crystal Palace manager) Oliver Glasner and his team.”<\/p>\n

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Crystal Palace players celebrate.\u00a0AP Photo\/Dave Shopland<\/p>\n

Liverpool headed back north disappointed but with promising signs for how a \u00a3269 million ($554 million) summer spending spree will help reinforce manager Arne Slot’s chances of winning back-to-back Premier League titles.<\/p>\n

In a fast-paced first half hour on a hot afternoon at Wembley, much-vaunted newcomers Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz combined for the opening goal with a classy move down the left side and right-back Jeremie Frimpong also hit the scoresheet.<\/p>\n

Less than four minutes had been played when Wirtz passed to Ekitike, who took a clean touch on the edge of the area to pass his marker and roll the ball cleanly into the far bottom corner.<\/p>\n

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Marc Guehi of Crystal Palace lifts the FA Community Shield.\u00a0Photo by Clive Mason\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

But Palace sprung to life in the wake of the early opener, drawing equal with a penalty from Jean-Philippe Mateta on 17 minutes.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman had seconds earlier found himself one-on-one with Liverpool shot-stopper Alisson Becker but the Brazilian was equal to the task.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Reds, however, didn’t do enough to clear the ball, leading captain Virgil van Dijk to foul Isma\u00efla Sarr in the box. Mateta made no mistake with his second chance, sending Alisson the wrong way from the spot.<\/p>\n

Four minutes later, another Liverpool debutant hit the scoresheet with what was either a sublime chip or a slightly miscued cross from the tightest of angles.<\/p>\n

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Ismaila Sarr of Crystal Palace creates a headed chance.\u00a0Photo by Clive Mason\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Dominik Szobozlai spotted Dutch fullback Jeremie Frimpong \u2013 poached from Bayer Leverkusen alongside Wirtz \u2013 deep in attack down the right wing.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old tasked with filling the huge boots of departed star Trent Alexander-Arnold beat Mark Geuhi for pace before lofting the ball from only a couple of metres inside the byline over the head of a helpless Dean Henderson and into the net.<\/p>\n

Crystal Palace looked much the likelier to score after half-time, spurning a string of chances and half-chances before Saar eventually broke through in the 77th minute.<\/p>\n

On the back of a scrappy turnover in midfield, Adam Wharton played a perfect pass through to Sarr, who took a single touch before beating Alisson coolly at the near post.<\/p>\n

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A Liverpool fan holds up a Diogo Jota shirt.\u00a0Photo by Julian Finney\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Only a desperate block from another new Liverpool recruit, Milos Kerkez, denied Saar again seconds later. Liverpool fans breathed another sigh of relief when the video assistant referee waved away calls for a handball by newly introduced substitute Alexis McAllister in the same play.<\/p>\n

Both sides had chances to pull ahead before the final whistle but the first competitive match of the season was destined for penalties, with no extra time played.<\/p>\n

Earlier, there were more emotional tributes for Liverpool star Diogo Jota and his brother Andr\u00e9 Silva, who were killed in a car crash in northern Spain as Jota drove his Lamborghini from Portugal to Liverpool to begin pre-season training.<\/p>\n

Liverpool legend Ian Rush, Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish and FA chairwoman Debbie Hewitt laid wreaths ahead of the Anfield team’s first competitive match since the tragedy and there was a moment of silence before kick-off. Cheers for the former No.20 were still ringing around Wembley when Frimpong netted on 21 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace has won its second trophy in the space of a few months, upsetting Premier League champions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-58471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}