Late Nketiah winner hands Liverpool first defeat

Liverpool were fixed a sensation of their ain medicine by Crystal Palace arsenic Eddie Nketiah's last-gasp victor wrecked their 100% commencement to the season.

The Eagles snatched a deserved 2-1 triumph with the past footwear of the match, conscionable aft Federico Chiesa thought helium had rescued a constituent for the champions.

Since losing successful the Community Shield to Palace, Liverpool had won each 7 of their matches this play -- and clinched triumph successful six of them successful the 83rd infinitesimal oregon later.

But it was substitute Nketiah with the last-gasp heroics, prompting Palace's usually reserved brag Oliver Glasner to spell charging down the touchline successful celebration.

Palace led erstwhile Ismaïla Sarr struck successful the 10th infinitesimal aft Tyrick Mitchell and Yeremy Pino's interruption down the near resulted successful a archetypal Palace corner.

Daichi Kamada swung successful the transverse and Marc Guéhi -- who would person been playing for Liverpool had they got their mode connected deadline time -- challenged Ryan Gravenberch astatine the acold post.

It was Reds midfielder Gravenberch who inadvertently headed the shot backmost into his ain six-yard box, wherever Sarr was connected manus to lash it home.

Liverpool rapidly won a free-kick connected the borderline of the Palace country but had to hold six minutes to instrumentality it owed to a aesculapian exigency successful the Arthur Wait stand.

When Mohamed Salah yet stepped up, his changeable deed the antiaircraft partition and Gravenberch's fierce follow-up was superbly tipped connected to the adjacent station by Palace keeper Dean Henderson.

Liverpool's Alisson Becker was by acold the busier goalkeeper, though, keeping his broadside successful it by denying Pino, Daniel Muñoz and Jean-Phillipe Mateta successful speedy succession.

Ibrahima Konaté, successful particular, was having a torrid clip astatine the back, which was compounded erstwhile helium pulled backmost Mateta to gain a booking.

It was the benignant of show which highlighted precisely wherefore Reds brag Arne Slot had pushed truthful hard to onshore England defender Guehi.

Yet Konate astir apt should person equalised with a escaped header from Dominik Szoboszlai's country which flew inches wide.

Palace doubly came agonisingly adjacent to doubling their pb successful first-half stoppage time, erstwhile archetypal different slick antagonistic culminated successful Mateta curing his changeable against Alisson's acold post.

The French striker past blazed a volley implicit from 8 yards earlier half-time.

After the break, Munoz conscionable failed to person Pino's transverse astatine the acold station earlier Alisson came retired rapidly to artifact from Mateta again.

Liverpool should person been level connected the hr but Florian Wirtz side-footed Szoboszlai's transverse consecutive astatine Henderson.

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