Liverpool vs Crystal Palace - prediction, team news, lineups

Firmly successful the driving spot for Champions League shot successful 2026-27, Arne Slot's rejuvenated Liverpool big an progressively resilient Crystal Palace astatine Anfield connected Saturday.

The reigning Premier League champions claimed the Merseyside derby bragging rights last weekend, portion the Eagles prolonged their dependable unbeaten tally successful a 0-0 gully with West Ham United.

Match preview

Different venue, aforesaid premise, antithetic result - a centre-back scoring a last-minute extremity successful the Merseyside derby.

After James Tarkowski took it upon himself to salvage a gully for Everton during the last Toffees-Reds brushwood to beryllium played astatine Goodison Park, Virgil van Dijk was Liverpool's latest last-minute leader with a record-breaking winning header, aft Mohamed Salah and Beto had struck successful beforehand of the distant end.

Breaking bluish hearts with 3 figures connected the clock, Liverpool's 100th-minute clincher saw the Reds people a 90+ infinitesimal victor against Everton for the sixth clip successful the Premier League - much than immoderate different squad against a azygous hostile - and besides relieved the unit connected Slot's shoulders for a fewer days astatine least.

Thanks successful nary tiny portion to Chelsea's calamitous collapse, Liverpool whitethorn lone beryllium a mates of affirmative results distant from securing a Champions League spot for adjacent season, lying 5th successful the Premier League table and 5 points wide of Brighton & Hove Albion with a crippled successful hand.

While the Reds volition inactive cede the Premier League crown with a whimper, Slot's broadside person lone suffered decision successful 1 of their past 10 top-flight location games and present invited opponents with bigger continental food to fry.

No strangers to silverware themselves successful caller times, FA Cup and Community Shield holders Crystal Palace person small connected the enactment for the remainder of the Premier League season, which is little than tin beryllium said for their European adventures.

Saturday's travel to Anfield comes 5 days earlier the Eagles caput to Poland for the archetypal limb of their Conference League semi-final with Shakhtar Donetsk, which the travelling faithful could beryllium forgiven for already having 1 oculus on.

On the backmost of Crystal Palace's jaunt to Fiorentina successful the quarter-finals, Oliver Glasner unsurprisingly made a fistful of alterations for Monday's London derby with West Ham, successful which the Eagles forced a goalless stalemate with the relegation battlers.

Thirteenth successful the rankings with a crippled successful manus connected each squad astir them, Palace person seemingly learned however to successfully juggle home and continental commitments; aft their appalling 12-game winless tally from December 14 to February 1, they present boast a acold much respectable 7 victories from their past 14 successful each competitions.

The Eagles person besides gone 4 unbeaten successful the Premier League since March's constrictive decision to Manchester United, and Glasner oversaw a magnificent acceptable of results against Saturday's hosts successful 2025 - 3 wins and 1 gully crossed the Premier League, EFL Cup and Community Shield.

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Team News

In the process of trying to forestall Beto's equaliser past weekend, Liverpool fig 2 Giorgi Mamardashvili suffered a coiled to the genu that required hospitalisation, and the Georgia planetary volition present walk 2 to 4 weeks connected the sidelines.

As first-choice shot-stopper Alisson Becker is inactive connected the mend too, fig 3 Freddie Woodman is poised to marque his afloat Premier League debut for Liverpool, and conscionable his 2nd commencement for the nine aft October's 3-0 EFL Cup nonaccomplishment to Crystal Palace.

Wataru Endo (ankle), Hugo Ekitike (Achilles), Conor Bradley (knee) and Giovanni Leoni (ACL) are each semipermanent absentees, and it remains to beryllium seen whether Joe Gomez's muscular occupation lets up successful clip for Saturday too.

Meanwhile, Crystal Palace duo Maxence Lacroix and Adam Wharton were some casualties of the travel to Fiorentina; the erstwhile shook disconnected his sound to instrumentality portion against West Ham, but the Liverpool-linked second was absent from the derby with his adductor issue.

Wharton's existent wounded is the aforesaid 1 that forced him to permission the England campy successful March, truthful determination are fears implicit his availability for the travel north, which Cheick Doucoure (muscle), Evann Guessand (knee) and Eddie Nketiah (thigh) volition decidedly miss.

After ringing the changes connected Monday, Glasner is present expected to callback the likes of Jean-Philippe Mateta and Liverpool's nemesis Ismaila Sarr, who has scored successful each of his past 4 appearances against the Reds successful each tournaments.

Liverpool imaginable starting lineup:

Woodman; Jones, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch, Szoboszlai; Salah, Wirtz, Gakpo; Isak

Crystal Palace imaginable starting lineup:

Henderson; Canvot, Richards, Lacroix; Munoz, Hughes, Kamada, Mitchell; Sarr, Johnson; Mateta

We say: Liverpool 2-1 Crystal Palace

If a last-minute derby victor does not bash wonders for Liverpool's morale, thing will, and the Reds person been looking a spot much similar themselves successful the Premier League of precocious contempt their UCL disappointments.

As such, Palace's caller stronghold implicit Slot's broadside should number for thing connected Saturday, wherever Liverpool should support their robust grip connected a Champions League spot with a gritty victory.

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