The Arne Slot of Liverpool hopes lessons that have been learned after Crystal Palace punishes the mistakes of Reds

Liverpool boss Arne Slot admitted frankly that his team was the second best in Crystal Palace on Saturday and rightly accepted the last-minute Eddie Nketiah winner who ended the 100% record this season, was thoroughly earned.

But what the Dutchman goes the most is that the vulnerabilities of his party, which have been shown in the otherwise winning start of this campaign, were so consistently exploited in Selhurst Park.

Liverpool began to give up this period by giving two goals against Bournemouth and Newcastle United Before he pulled the victory, late winners also needed against Arsenal, Burnley and Atletico Madrid, the last one was wasted after another 2-0 lead.

When Federico Chiesa, one of the heroes against Bournemouth, shot home in the first night of the Premier League season, in the 87th minute, it seemed that Liverpool had done it again and had punished the palace for his waste in the first half in the first half.

Palace’s Eddie Nketiah, however, gave Liverpool a taste of his own medicine at death – one who will hope will hope that his charges like a valuable lesson after a few happy escapes.

«We take lessons from all the games we have played and we can take even more from a game like this,» Slot said Sky Sports.

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Palace had rightly taken an early lead by Ismaila Sarr, who as a Watford player ended the unbeaten record of Liverpool in the 28th game of his victorious 2019/20 Premier League campaign and now has five goals in eight matches against the Reds.

The goals of both Palace came through set pieces and Slot warned that his side should again find his strength in Dead-Ball situations, after he also admitted from two against Newcastle.

But the poor performance of Ibrahima Konate in Open Play will cause alarm bells, with the injury-sensitive Joe Gomez the only real coverage in the middle after the seasonal injury by Giovanni Leoni against Southampton in midweek.

There was no small irony in the fact that Captain Marc Guehi van Paleis, who reportedly had undergone a medical before the collapse of his deadline day moving to Liverpool in September, was credited with the assist to the winner.

Slot spent richly in the summer, but Slot gets little sympathy if the first loss of the Liverpool season is seen afterwards as a harbinger of the things that are still coming.

Published on September 28, 2025