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Post by Webster on Feb 25, 2023 20:29:08 GMT
(The Guardian) 37 min: Better from Palace. Olise finds more space, this time on the Eagles’ right wing. He bends in another brilliant cross, with tonnes of whip and pace. Schlupp rises to head it, and he gets a flick on it, but cannot direct it anywhere near the goal. Vieira is pictured on the sidelines, willing the ball into the net. Palace need to have another go, but that was a positive sign.
39 min: Olise meets a deep cross for Palace by volleying it first-time back into the danger zone. It cannons off a Liverpool leg, and flashes just past a post. Close! A couple of minutes before that, Keita – who has already been booked, for a foul on Olise – snapped into another tackle. Careful.
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Post by Webster on Feb 25, 2023 20:30:26 GMT
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Post by Webster on Feb 25, 2023 20:32:40 GMT
(The Guardian) 41 min: Woeful defending by Alexander-Arnold – he has his pocket picked by Schlupp in the Liverpool box. Schlupp immediately squares for Mateta, who sidefoots a powerful rising effort on to the crossbar and away! He’s got to hit the target there.
43 min: “What the f*ck is TAA doing!?” emails Joe. (His asterisk, not mine.) I don’t know, TBH. That was really, really bad. And it should be 1-0 to Palace.And now there is more nervy defending on that side of the pitch from Matip! He mis-controls and mis-kicks and nearly lets Palace in again.
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Post by Webster on Feb 25, 2023 20:41:51 GMT
(The Guardian) Half time! Crystal Palace 0-0 LiverpoolThat wasn’t the best half of football, if we are honest. But there were a couple of chances for both sides … Mateta should really have Palace in front, after an absolutely terrible error by Alexander-Arnold saw him dispossessed by Schlupp. Klopp will be getting the hairdryer out for TAA and Matip, you suspect, because they have looked well dodgy on that side of the pitch.
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Post by Webster on Feb 25, 2023 20:51:10 GMT
(The Guardian) “Klopp termed the team mentality monsters for a few years and he was right,” emails Neil. “The sheer number of basic errors in the team is shocking right now and I haven’t settled on an alternate term. Muppets? Malfeasance? Mentality Malpractice?” MALFEASANCE MONSTERS
“In fairness to Joachim Andersen and his staff of nine,” writes Justin, “he is always so immaculately coiffed that the old Warren Zevon line pops into my head whenever I watch him play: ‘I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic’s. And his hair was perfect.’”
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Post by Webster on Feb 25, 2023 20:51:40 GMT
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Post by Webster on Feb 25, 2023 20:52:31 GMT
(The Guardian) Second half kick off!Harvey Elliott is on for Liverpool. Keita off.
46 min: Elliott is involved immediately, clipping a cross in for Jota. The Portuguese nearly gets on the end of it, but Clyne does well to put him off.
48 min: Schlupp now gets on the end of a good cross having made a run deep to the far post for Palace. It flicks off a defender and Liverpool clear.
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Post by Webster on Feb 25, 2023 20:55:16 GMT
(The Guardian) 49 min: Alexander-Arnold drills a ball in from the right. Jota hits it first-time, but the ball is blocked at his feet … it squirts to Salah, who curls a delightful first-time shot, left-footed, that curls past Guaita … and hits the crossbar! So close!
51 min: “If Liverpool score early they look like world beaters. If not they look like a relegation team,” emails David. “That’s not just this season but it was ever thus. Just in previous seasons they managed to ride it and still get the win. Of course, the exception was Real Madrid who really showed up Liverpool’s limitations.” Yes, there is absolutely something in that. There was that game they got absolutely hammered by Villa, and that is when they were really good. You can stamp on the small flower of Liverpool’s confidence if you get it right.
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Post by Webster on Feb 25, 2023 20:55:39 GMT
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Post by Webster on Feb 25, 2023 20:56:57 GMT
Diogo Jota hits the post with his header as Vicente Guaita looks on. Photograph: Catherine Ivill/Getty Images
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Post by Webster on Feb 25, 2023 20:59:54 GMT
(The Guardian) 53 min: After the freakish thrill of Salah hitting the woodwork, the game’s gone back to being pretty drab. Mind you, Elliott injects a bit of quality again, putting his foot on it near the Palace box and probing their defence with another aerial ball. The hosts get it clear, but Elliott has looked a class apart since he came on, what with his ability to trap a ball and pass in the direction of a teammate.
55 min: Alexander-Arnold whips a trademark ball from the wing, around halfway, into the danger zone. Guehi clears, conceding a corner in the process.
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Post by Webster on Feb 25, 2023 21:00:15 GMT
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Post by Webster on Feb 25, 2023 21:03:22 GMT
(The Guardian) 57 min: Liverpool, who are wearing an unattractive black-and-white kit that is “strobing” like anything on my screen, win two corners in succession. Matip squeezes a shot in the direction of the near post first time round, but Guaita saves. Jota then has a chance from a tight angle but blazes it high over the bar.
“I seem to remember a game earlier this week where Liverpool scored early - twice even! - and didn’t exactly come away looking like worldbeaters,” writes Adam. Yes, fine, but why let facts get in the way of a sweeping generalisation? That would be my view.
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Post by Webster on Feb 25, 2023 21:05:08 GMT
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Post by Webster on Feb 25, 2023 21:11:22 GMT
(The Guardian) 64 min: Palace have loads of numbers forward for the first time in a while. Liverprool are pinned back. A stunning, impudent bit of skill by Olise, who is having a tremendous game, buys the space for a cross out on the right. Then he wins a corner. But Alisson gathers and the danger passes for Klopp’s men.
66 min: Gakpo and Jota try to make inroads near the Palace area. The hosts win it back, and break quickly – the game opening up a touch. Olise has Henderson on toast down the wing, cutting in, and is fouled just outside the area. Palace have a free-kick in a testing position as far as Liverpool are concerned. A tight angle but a dangerous spot.
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