Crystal Palace v Liverpool LIVE: Result and reaction as Harvey Elliott smashes home late winner
Crystal Palace 1-2 Liverpool: Elliott and Salah send Reds top after Ayew’s sending off
Liverpool went to the top of the Premier League table with victory over ten-man Crystal Palace as Harvey Elliott fired home a brilliant late winner.
Elliott’s 90th minute strike ensured a below-par Liverpool took all three points away from Selhurst Park after Mohamed Salah had cancelled out Jean-Philippe Mateta’s penalty.
Home manager Roy Hodgson had been booed by Crystal Palace supporters after a flat midweek defeat to Bournemouth, but his team responded well with a vastly-improved performance.
The London club were in control of the game after Mateta converted from 12 yards following a foul by young Liverpool defender Jarrel Quansah, before the game swung. A seemingly innocuous trip on Elliott by Jordan Ayew saw the forward shown a second yellow card by referee Andy Madley.
And almost immediately after Ayew was dismissed, Salah’s deflected effort — his 200th Liverpool goal — put Liverpool level, allowing substitute Elliott to produce a moment of quality and take Liverpool a point above Arsenal, who play Aston Villa later on Saturday.
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Crystal Palace 1-0 Liverpool, 59 minutes
The home crowd are bouncing with their team in front, the woes of the week forgotten with Crystal Palace playing so well. A dangerous Liverpool delivery evades a couple of sliding visitors hoping to knock it home.
GOAL! CRYSTAL PALACE 1-0 Liverpool (Jean-Philippe Mateta, 58 minutes)
In it goes!
Cool as you like from the tall replacement forward. A sashay up, a swipe with the side of his foot, and Alisson is sent the wrong way.
A long process, but the right decision made - and Crystal Palace are into a lead that, on balance, they deserve.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Liverpool, 53 minutes
Liverpool make those changes to force Crystal Palace to wait to take. Ibrahima Konate and Cody Gakpo are on for Quansah and Ryan Gravenberch.
Mateta will take...
PENALTY! Crystal Palace 0-0 Liverpool, 53 minutes
AND IT’S GIVEN! Crystal Palace have their penalty!
Quansah had been trying to clear a low cross, but Jean-Philippe Mateta had just got their first. Quansah’s swing knocked Mateta’s legs from beneath him, and to the spot, belatedly, Andy Madley points.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Liverpool, 55 minutes
Now then - John Brooks has called Andy Madley over to the screen. It was a long, long check in the background - and on second view, Quansah doesn’t appear to have got near the ball...
Crystal Palace 0-0 Liverpool, 53 minutes
Jean-Philippe Mateta goes down under a challenge from Jarell Quansah in the box, but it appears the young defender got his foot to the ball first before the striker went over - though John Brooks is still having a look in the VAR room.
Liverpool are readying more changes.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Liverpool, 52 minutes
Nathaniel Clyne has been impressive at left-back so far, getting good support from Jeffrey Schlupp ahead of him. The former Liverpool man leads a frisky counter, and Jefferson Lerma earns a corner.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Liverpool, 49 minutes
Will Hughes’s left-footed free kick bends on to Jefferson Lerma’s head, but the Colombian has too much to do and gets his technique wrong trying to force it goalwards, in the end directing it nearing the corner flag than Alisson’s right-hand post.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Liverpool, 48 minutes
Alexander-Arnold has his fingeprints all over a move that sees Luis Diaz cutting inside in trademark fashion, a shot of sorts that is almost diverted goalwards by Darwin Nunez’s dome - the striker may have been offside, anyway, and can’t get much of a connection on Diaz’s fast-moving strike.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Liverpool, 47 minutes
Alexander-Arnold had seen plenty of the ball in the first half, but felt a little bit on the periphery with Jurgen Klopp asking the right back to provide width. Can he influence matters more from a deep-lying playmakeing role?
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