{"id":552170,"date":"2026-04-26T19:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552170\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T19:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:58:12","slug":"u21s-match-report-liverpool-beaten-on-penalties-by-palace-in-pl2-play-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552170\/","title":{"rendered":"U21s match report: Liverpool beaten on penalties by Palace in PL2 play-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A flurry of chances ensued from the restart, with one passage of play seeing Morrison denied by Lee at one end and, seconds later, Pecsi tipping wide a Dean Benamar strike after a surging run.<\/p>\n<p>Amara Nallo sent a back-post header off target from a corner kick, while Lucas Pitt timed a sliding block superbly to prevent Marsh finishing a turn inside the area.<\/p>\n<p>The next goal was going to be pivotal \u2013 and Liverpool got it.<\/p>\n<p>Two minutes shy of the hour mark, Morrison\u2019s dribbling on the right wing created room for a teasing low cross that Wright pounced upon to clinically tuck in.<\/p>\n<p>Back came Palace immediately and Marsh was able to line up a strike from a central position 10 yards out that rattled away off the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>With Morrison a constant spark, the Reds were threatening a third, but Pecsi had to correctly judge a smother when Ben Casey snuck into a one-v-one.<\/p>\n<p>The end of normal time arrived with the score still 2-2 and an additional half-hour began with Liverpool taking the upper hand.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another Morrison scamper into the box forced a clearance off the goalline, although as fatigue steadily set in, the chances dried up.<\/p>\n<p>A lovely Morrison delivery just evaded the arriving Josh Sonni-Lambie yards out, before, on 107 minutes, the Eagles regained the advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The ball was not cleared from a deep free-kick lofted into the area and eventually Farquhar controlled it and prodded a finish past Pecsi.<\/p>\n<p>Reds substitute Figueroa immediately had a near-post nod deflected wide after Morrison\u2019s latest run and pinpoint cross.<\/p>\n<p>But the USA youth international did not pass up a second chance, meeting Calvin Ramsay\u2019s hoisted cross from the left side with a brilliant downward header to make it 3-3.<\/p>\n<p>No further goals meant it went to penalties, with Lee keeping out the efforts from Michael Laffey, Wright and Figueroa to send Palace through.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool: Pecsi, Ramsay, Nallo, Ndiaye, Pitt, Kelly (Laffey, 60), Morrison, McConnell (Pilling, 60), W. Wright, Nyoni (Bradshaw, 91), Sonni-Lambie (Figueroa, 106).<\/p>\n<p>Unused sub: Misciur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A flurry of chances ensued from the restart, with one passage of play seeing Morrison denied by Lee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[607,608,49,596,603,598,609,611,610,134,602,601,597,606,50,599,604,600,51,47,52,48,605],"class_list":{"0":"post-552170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-homepage","12":"tag-klopp","13":"tag-lfc","14":"tag-lfc-news","15":"tag-lfctv","16":"tag-lfctv-go","17":"tag-liverpool-fc","18":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","19":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","20":"tag-liverpool-football-club","21":"tag-mane","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-reds","24":"tag-salah","25":"tag-the-reds","26":"tag-top-news","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topnews","29":"tag-topstories","30":"tag-van-dijk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}