Liverpool’s issues went from unhealthy to worse as they had been dumped out of the Carabao Cup with a 3-0 defeat at dwelling to Crystal Palace.
The Reds have now misplaced six of their final seven video games in all competitions, and the loss is the primary time in 91 years they’ve misplaced by that scoreline in a home cup match at Anfield.
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Arne Slot elected to make an entire host of modifications and handed two debuts to Freddie Woodman and Kieran Morrison.
On the bench, he did not have any of his stars to name on, with the likes of Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Hugo Ekitike rested.
Slot determined to take off Alexis Mac Allister and Andy Robertson off at 2-0 down.
In the meantime, one of many gamers who got here on, Amara Nallo, made some undesirable Liverpool historical past.
He turned the primary participant within the membership’s existence to be despatched off in back-to-back matches.
The 18-year-old was additionally dismissed towards PSV Eindhoven within the Champions League final season in what was his solely different senior look for Liverpool.
But it surely was one other night time to neglect for Liverpool, and Jamie O’Hara appears like Slot gave up.
“He threw within the towel,” O’Hara mentioned throughout a chat with Dean Saunders on the Sports activities Bar.
And Saunders, a former Liverpool participant, wasn’t pleased with what he noticed on Wednesday night time.
“He is asking for bother choosing a workforce like that. As quickly as I noticed the workforce, two ideas got here into my head: They’re both attempting to get out of the Cup or looking forward to the subsequent 5 video games.
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“Villa at dwelling, Actual Madrid at dwelling, Man Metropolis, Nottingham Forest and PSV Eindhoven… so perhaps he is wanting forward and considering, ‘that is what issues.’
“The bench tells me all the things. Arsenal had a stocked up bench in case issues went mistaken.
“Jurgen Klopp did this in an FA Cup tie towards Wolves a couple of years again however usually he’ll have Salah and the most effective gamers on the bench… Palace are an excellent workforce and also you’re principally taking part in the under-23s towards them.”
Ismaila Sarr scored twice for the Eagles to place them 2-0 up at half time.
Extremely, they had been the sixth and seventh instances in his profession he is bagged towards the Reds having confronted them on 9 events.
It is usually the third time in three completely different competitions that Palace have crushed Liverpool this season having misplaced to them within the Premier League in addition to the Neighborhood Protect.
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The Eagles love taking part in Liverpool, and the away finish serenaded Slot with chants of ‘sacked within the morning’.
And after the sport, Slot steered a congested fixture schedule was the explanation behind his resolution to discipline a youthful line-up.
The one recognised first-team gamers within the XI had been Mac Allister, Milos Kerkez and Robertson.
Slot mentioned: “I feel individuals who know this membership and adopted this membership know that on this competitors we use this for our youthful gamers.
“That is without doubt one of the causes. The opposite motive is we have now solely 4 of 5 accidents, however I’ve to play the identical gamers.
“There are a number of the explanation why we have now misplaced so many video games. With all the explanations, there’s nonetheless no excuse to lose so many.
“If we maintain taking part in the identical gamers like I attempted with Alexander Isak, gamers who’ve missed out on pre-season. It is one other threat of getting an damage.”
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The Dutchman additionally highlighted the shortage of squad depth.
The Reds do have a couple of accidents with Alexander Isak, Ryan Gravenberch and Giovanni Leoni all injured.
However they nonetheless left Conor Bradley, Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Ibrahima Konate, Jeremie Frimpong, Dominik Szoboszlai, Cody Gakpo, Florian Wirtz and Hugo Ekitike out of the squad.
How did the sport go down?
Palace opened the scoring within the first half as Sarr pounced on a free ball to rifle into the underside nook.
Sarr and Yeremy Pino then mixed for a shocking objective as the previous backheeled into the trail of the Spaniard, who fed the Senegalese ahead within the field.
He opened up his physique and curled dwelling.
That made it 2-0 at half time earlier than Liverpool went down to 10 males.
Pino then get on the scoresheet to immediate a mass exodus of Anfield.
Palace will face Arsenal on the Emirates Stadium within the subsequent spherical, and Liverpool tackle Aston Villa within the Premier League at Anfield on Saturday night, reside on talkSPORT.
