Liverpool V Crystal Palace: Carabao Cup – Live

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Liverpool person historically recovered Crystal Palace difficult opponents. Not precisely ever – they’re 36-16 up connected wins, and beat Palace 7-0 connected their ain turf 5 years agone – but erstwhile nan Eagles execute a deed connected nan Reds, they really hit, and deed hard. The 1990 FA Cup semi-final. Crystanbul. This season’s Charity Community Shield. The game astatine Selhurst past month that triggered this astonishing illness of Arne Slot’s champion side, Liverpool’s first nonaccomplishment successful a series of 5 successful six.

Now let’s fold different mates of sequences into nan mix. Of nan past 8 meetings betwixt nan clubs, Palace person won 3 (we’re counting nan Community Shield arsenic a win), Liverpool conscionable two. What’s moreover much worrying for nan Reds are nan caller results astatine Anfield: Palace person won 1 and drawn 2 of nan past three. The Eagles person a beardown precocious manus complete tonight’s hosts astatine nan moment.

Having said each that, Palace are successful a spot of a rut of their own. They’ve mislaid 3 of their past 4 matches successful each competitions, failing to triumph domestically since that aforementioned capitulation-triggering sojourn of Liverpool to Selhurst. So present are a mates of teams who could do pinch a bolt of season-reviving energy. That unsocial should springiness america a adjacent chance of immoderate top-grade nosy tonight, though immoderate semipermanent value whitethorn dangle connected what teams Slot and Oliver Glasner determine to put out; they’re improbable to beryllium Premier League first XIs. But we’ll find retired astir that soon enough. Kick-off is astatine 7.45pm GMT. It’s on!