Slot: Liverpool 'deserved' first loss of the season

Liverpool caput manager Arne Slot has admitted Crystal Palace "deserved" their precocious 2-1 triumph astatine Selhurst Park and said his broadside "can lone blame" themselves for the result.

Palace brought Liverpool's five-game winning streak successful the Premier League to an extremity acknowledgment to a last-gasp victor from substitute Eddie Nketiah connected Saturday afternoon.

Oliver Glasner's broadside had dominated the archetypal half, taking an aboriginal pb done Ismalia Sarr earlier Federico Chiesa thought helium had snatched a precocious constituent for the visitors.

"We tin lone blasted ourselves for defending the mode we did," Slot said successful his postmatch quality league connected Saturday.

"One of our players ran retired due to the fact that helium wanted to play a counter-attack, which was of nary usage due to the fact that clip was up, truthful it was lone astir defending.

"One subordinate was excessively offensively minded successful that moment, which led to them scoring the victor and america losing the game."

And reflecting connected his side's 2nd decision to Palace this season, Slot was unfastened astir Liverpool's struggles erstwhile coming up against Glasner's team.

"Disappointing archetypal fractional and disappointing extremity to the game. Once again, recognition to Palace. It's not the archetypal clip we person mislaid against them," helium said.

"We person played them 4 times and we've won one, drawn 1 and mislaid two. It tells you however hard it is to bushed them. They deserved to beryllium up 2 oregon 3 goals successful the archetypal half.

"They created 4 truly bully chances, but the 2nd fractional was overmuch amended for america and we created chances and not galore teams do. It took a portion for america to score. To concede different set-piece extremity is disappointing.

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The Dutchman added: "We were capable to make a batch against a Palace squad which hardly ever concedes chances. When you look astatine the archetypal fractional they wholly deserved to win. Second fractional we were better. If 1 squad deserved to triumph contiguous it was Palace."

The triumph moves Palace up to 2nd successful the Premier League table, with the southbound London nine present unbeaten successful 18 games successful each competitions.

Speaking connected his team's display, manager Glasner said: "First fractional was truly large to ticker and it was the champion since we arrived, it was conscionable a effect that erstwhile you pb by 1 extremity you cognize the champions tin onslaught back, particularly successful their past games they ever people precocious goals.

"In the 2nd half, successful fairness, it was immense unit and we got fortunate astatine times with Dean Henderson [saving us] and it makes maine truly arrogant that we conceded the equaliser successful the 90th infinitesimal and precise often the momentum changes but we kept our caput up, played guardant and kept the momentum again. We got the victor and it makes maine truly arrogant of the group.

"It was specified a squad effort contiguous and [I am] truthful arrogant and delighted."

Information from PA contributed to this report.