The Result

10 men Liverpool draw their second game in a row for the start of the 22/23 Premier League season with a 1-1 draw with Palace at Anfield last night. 

Starting the game, Klopp put out Nat Phillips at the back alongside Virgil Van Dijk at centre back. Many though Joe Gomez would be starting but Phillips beat Gomez to it. However, this may have been a mistake due to the Zaha goal that was conceded by Liverpool. 

A through ball from the Palace midfield goes straight past Nat Phillips and Zaha runs onto the ball. Beating Phillips for pace he runs on to score a decent goal to put Palace 1-0 up. I believe that Gomez at the back would have prevented this goal due to his pace. 

Things got worse for the Reds in the 57th minute of the game when Darwin Nuñez got sent off for head butting Crystal Palace centre back Andersen. 

In response to going 1 man down, Liverpool reacted very well. 4 minutes after the red card, Luis Diaz made a brilliant run through 4/5 Palace defenders and, from the edge of the box, tried his luck for a goal. This ended in an amazing finish to put the Reds level with 29 mins to go. 

However, Liverpool couldn’t find the winning goal. This meant that they had drawn their first 2 games of the season and sit 12th after 2 games of the season. 

It’s quite disappointing to see the Reds drawing to opposition like Fulham and Crystal Palace. They are both sides that we should be beating 3/4-0 at the end of the day. It’s not the start to the season we would have wanted but we will hopefully pick it up in the next few games and climb back to where we belong. 

We will now be without Nuñez for the next 3 games as well which may be quite a big loss but having Firmino, Carvalho, Elliot etc would give Klopp options in the mean time.