Liverpool beat Crystal Palace 2-1 at Selhurst Park on Saturday. This is your one stop shop for all the coverage from after the game!
Jurgen Klopp walked away from London with another three points thanks to goals from Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino, although life would have been made a lot harder without the intervention of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR).
James Tomkins thought he’d scored against the Reds, only for the man in the darkened room to disallow the strike after it was decided that Jordan Ayew fouled Dejan Lovren in the build-up.
Wilfried Zaha did level things up for Palace, but their dreams of a point lasted just a few minutes before Firmino put the ball in the back of the net following a corner.
Predictable outcry
And as you’d except, there were whole sections of the internet who couldn’t deal with the fact that Liverpool got the better of a VAR decision – which conveniently ignores all the terrible calls we’ve been on the wrong side of. Rush The Kop ran two articles on this
We are LiVARpool and it feels great
"They crawled out of their corners of the internet and settled around one chief subject. LiVARpool. We, maybe we are. And it feels great."
This is the worst conspiracy ever
"Now the fun starts. You can predict it, really."
No more Mo
Mane stepped up magnificently and is now no longer in Mohamed Salah‘s shadow. The Senegalese forward scored when it really mattered and didn’t let his previous miss drop his head.
And so we posed the question, do Liverpool really need Salah any more?
We don’t need Mohamed Salah any more
"We don’t need Mohamed Salah any more.This hasn’t always been the case. The Reds definitely needed him during that whirlwind first season at Anfield, when the Egyptian King danced and sped and drifted and turned his way to a ridiculous 32 Premier League goals and 10 assists."
Has there been a shift in the pecking order?
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain started in the forward line after Salah was ruled out with an injury, but he hasn’t always been the automatic choice in situations like this.
Divock Origi normally comes into the team when one of the front three drop out, and does that decision signal that something has changed in Klopp’s mind?
We just saw a subtle change of the guard
"This is a significant moment as it meant Divock Origi, the previously unchallenged back-up player for the whole front three."
Player ratings
And finally, player ratings.