Liverpool were given a taste of their own medicine by Crystal Palace as Eddie Nketiah\u2019s last-gasp winner wrecked their 100% start to the season.<\/p>\n
The Eagles snatched a deserved 2-1 victory with the last kick of the match, just after Federico Chiesa thought he had rescued a point for the champions.<\/p>\n
Since losing in the Community Shield to Palace, Liverpool had won all seven of their matches this season — and clinched victory in six of them in the 83rd minute or later.<\/p>\n
But it was substitute Nketiah with the last-gasp heroics, prompting Palace\u2019s usually reserved boss Oliver Glasner to go charging down the touchline in celebration.<\/p>\n
Palace led when Isma\u00efla Sarr struck in the 10th minute after Tyrick Mitchell and Yeremy Pino\u2019s break down the left resulted in a first Palace corner.<\/p>\n
Daichi Kamada swung in the cross and Marc Gu\u00e9hi — who would have been playing for Liverpool had they got their way on deadline day — challenged Ryan Gravenberch at the far post.<\/p>\n
It was Reds midfielder Gravenberch who inadvertently headed the ball back into his own six-yard box, where Sarr was on hand to lash it home.<\/p>\n
Liverpool quickly won a free-kick on the edge of the Palace area but had to wait six minutes to take it due to a medical emergency in the Arthur Wait stand.<\/p>\n
When Mohamed Salah finally stepped up, his shot hit the defensive wall and Gravenberch\u2019s fierce follow-up was superbly tipped on to the near post by Palace keeper Dean Henderson.<\/p>\n
Liverpool\u2019s Alisson Becker was by far the busier goalkeeper, though, keeping his side in it by denying Pino, Daniel Mu\u00f1oz and Jean-Phillipe Mateta in quick succession.<\/p>\n
Ibrahima Konat\u00e9, in particular, was having a torrid time at the back, which was compounded when he pulled back Mateta to earn a booking.<\/p>\n
It was the type of display which highlighted exactly why Reds boss Arne Slot had pushed so hard to land England defender Guehi.<\/p>\n
Yet Konate probably should have equalised with a free header from Dominik Szoboszlai\u2019s corner which flew inches wide.<\/p>\n
Palace twice came agonisingly close to doubling their lead in first-half stoppage time, when first another slick counter culminated in Mateta curing his shot against Alisson\u2019s far post.<\/p>\n
The French striker then blazed a volley over from eight yards before half-time.<\/p>\n
After the break, Munoz just failed to convert Pino\u2019s cross at the far post before Alisson came out quickly to block from Mateta again.<\/p>\n
Liverpool should have been level on the hour but Florian Wirtz side-footed Szoboszlai\u2019s cross straight at Henderson.<\/p>\n
Then came what should have been Alexander Isak\u2019s big moment, the \u00a3130 million striker racing on to a ball in behind and jinking past Chris Richards, only to stab his shot wide.<\/p>\n
However, with three minutes left the ball found Chiesa in the area and the Italian volleyed home, with the goal surviving a VAR check for handball by Salah.<\/p>\n
Yet Nketiah had the last word when he tucked the ball away at the far post – with another VAR check for offside just adding to the late, late drama which this time did not go Liverpool\u2019s way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool were given a taste of their own medicine by Crystal Palace as Eddie Nketiah\u2019s last-gasp winner wrecked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,88763,82326,561,82],"class_list":["post-173440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crystal-palace-sports-soccer-team-team-statscom-7131","tag-liverpool-sports-soccer-team-team-statscom-6140","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}