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Liverpool vs Crystal Palace combines Liverpool’s established status with a challenger that has repeatedly disturbed the expected script. Palace won 1–0 at Anfield in April 2024 and 3–0 there in the League Cup in October 2025, while Liverpool won 3–1 at home in April 2026. The fixed results make venue and competition central; another meeting will ask whether Palace can disrupt control again.
Past matches, Liverpool vs Crystal Palace
Match center
Starting eleven
Substitutes Liverpool
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41G
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14F
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30D
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38M
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6D
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79F
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2D
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42M
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73F
Crystal Palace Substitutes
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G
44
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D
17
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M
19
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D
24
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F
22
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M
8
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M
10
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M
55
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D
34
Match events
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19'Daniel Muñoz Yellow Card
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24'Mohamed Salah Penalty cancelled
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32'Dean Henderson Yellow Card
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35'⚽A. Isak Normal Goal (Asst: A. Mac Allister)
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40'⚽A. Robertson Normal Goal (Asst: C. Jones)
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46'B. Sosa T. Mitchell
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59'J. Frimpong M. Salah
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59'Y. Pino B. Johnson
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70'J. S. Larsen J. Mateta
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71'⚽D. Munoz Normal Goal
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79'R. Gravenberch A. Isak
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87'J. Gomez C. Jones
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87'M. Kerkez A. Robertson
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87'M. Kerkez A. Robertson
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87'J. Gomez C. Jones
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90'R. Gravenberch Yellow Card
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90' +3Borna Sosa Yellow Card
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90'Dominik Szoboszlai Yellow Card
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90'⚽F. Wirtz Normal Goal (Asst: A. Mac Allister)
Stats for this game
Matchup Liverpool VS Crystal Palace
Hierarchy with a disruptive counterweight
Liverpool bring the stronger historical and institutional reference, yet Crystal Palace have shown that the expected order can be overturned. Palace won 1–0 at Anfield in the Premier League on 14 April 2024, then returned to the same ground for a 3–0 League Cup victory on 29 October 2025. Liverpool answered with a 3–1 league win at Anfield on 25 April 2026. These fixed results make venue, competition and game state central to the matchup’s character.
Anfield and Selhurst set different questions
Palace’s challenge is most compelling when it turns defensive discipline into a platform for decisive attacks, while Liverpool’s established level places pressure on them to dictate territory and tempo. The teams’ meetings can therefore swing between control and disruption rather than follow a single script. A future encounter will test whether Liverpool can make its authority tell over ninety minutes and whether Palace can reproduce the concentration that made its Anfield victories so significant. That tension keeps the fixture meaningful across league and cup settings.