Arne Slot admitted Liverpool solely had themselves responsible after dropping their one hundred pc document in a 2-1 defeat at Crystal Palace.
The Reds, who’ve made a behavior of scoring late winners this season, got a style of their very own drugs as Eddie Nketiah received it for Palace on the finish of seven minutes of stoppage time.
It was all of the extra gut-wrenching for Slot after Federico Chiesa thought he had rescued a degree for the champions when he cancelled out Ismaila Sarr’s early objective three minutes from time.
However from an extended throw-in Jeremie Frimpong momentarily switched off, leaving Nketiah unmarked on the far submit to grab a dramatic and memorable victory.
“We will solely blame ourselves for defending the best way we did,” stated Slot.
“Considered one of our gamers ran out as a result of he wished to play a counter-attack, which was of no use as a result of time was up, so it was solely about defending.
“One participant was too offensively minded in that second, which led to them scoring the winner and us dropping the sport.”
Palace, in equity, ought to have been out of sight by half-time, such was their dominance within the first half when Liverpool had been rescued 3 times by goalkeeper Alisson and as soon as by the submit from Jean-Philippe Mateta.
“It was a disappointing first half and disappointing finish to recreation,” added Slot.
“Credit score to Palace – with the Group Protect it’s not the primary time we’ve misplaced to them.
“They deserved to be two or three up within the first half. The second half was a lot better from us, we created probabilities which not many groups do right here.
“It took us some time to attain a objective – and once we did, to concede one other set-piece objective is simply as disappointing as the primary half.
“If one workforce deserved to win right now it was Palace.”
Nketiah’s winner prompted Palace boss Oliver Glasner to go haring down the touchline in celebration.
“I believe the primary half was the very best half since we arrived,” he stated.
“Main the champions by one objective you all the time suppose they’ll strike again and we had been underneath immense stress within the second half.
“However even after they equalised and the momentum can change we stored our heads. It was such a workforce effort. I’m very happy with our efficiency.”
Palace are actually the one unbeaten workforce left within the Premier League, however Glasner stated: “It’s simply September.
“Final yr we’d have been the one workforce to not get a win at this stage. But it surely’s nice to win towards the champions.”
Crystal Palace 2-1 Liverpool
