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Reds hope to move closer to Champions League qualification against bogey team at Anfield

Liverpool and Crystal Palace collide again in the Premier League at Anfield this afternoon. The Reds head into today’s game with some momentum at last amid a difficult season, having recorded back-to-back top-flight wins over Fulham and Everton to move five points clear in fifth place with five matches to go as they bid to ensure Champions League qualification for next term.

Liverpool have third-choice goalkeeper Freddie Woodman making his first league start for the club with no Alisson Becker or Giorgi Mamardashvili, while their opponents are boosted by the return of Adam Wharton as Oliver Glasner makes four changes to the team that drew at West Ham. Follow Liverpool vs Crystal Palace live below!

Live updates

3 minutes ago

Kick-off imminent

Here come the teams at Anfield, which is bathed in sunshine this afternoon.

Liverpool are in their familiar red home strips, with Crystal Palace donning their white, red and blue away kit.

Andy Madley is today’s referee, with Neil Davies on VAR duty.

16 minutes ago

Liverpool fans continue ticket price protests

Liverpool fans are continuing their recent protests ahead of kick-off against Crystal Palace this afternoon.

The ‘Show FSG the Yellow Card’ campaign comes as a result of ticket prices at Anfield being raised for the next three seasons.

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21 minutes ago

Big day for Freddie Woodman

A huge day ahead for this man as he makes his first Premier League start for Liverpool.

He will hope it goes much better than his only previous start for the club, a dismal 3-0 home loss to the same opponents in the Carabao Cup last 16 back in October.

Woodman is a boyhood Crystal Palace fan who started his career at Selhurst Park...

34 minutes ago

Opportunity knocks for Liverpool after Aston Villa defeat

In today’s early Premier League kick-off, Aston Villa have lost 1-0 against Fulham thanks to Ryan Sessegnon’s late first-half goal at Craven Cottage.

That means that Liverpool would go fourth and possibly as high as third with a third consecutive top-flight win this afternoon, with Manchester United not in action until they host Brentford on Monday night.

The Reds currently sit three points behind both clubs in fifth, with a much better goal difference than Villa and only two goals worse off than United.

48 minutes ago

Four Crystal Palace changes as Wharton returns

Crystal Palace show four changes to the side that drew 0-0 at home to West Ham on Monday night.

Adam Wharton is fit to return in midfield, with Daichi Kamada also drafted in as Jefferson Lerma and Will Hughes both drop to the bench.

In attack, Yeremy Pino and Jorgen Strand Larsen make way for Ismaila Sarr and Jean-Philippe Mateta.

Nathaniel Clyne is on the bench after illness.

56 minutes ago

Woodman starts for Liverpool as Alisson misses out

So the big news for Liverpool is that Freddie Woodman does indeed make his first Premier League start for the club this afternoon, with the game coming too soon for Alisson Becker.

Alisson is not on the bench, so it is Armin Pecsi providing the only cover for Woodman with Giorgi Mamardashvili also out.

The only other change to Arne Slot’s starting XI from the Merseyside derby is in midfield, where Alexis Mac Allister partners Dominik Szoboszlai in the double pivot with Ryan Gravenberch on the bench.

Curtis Jones and Andy Robertson continue at full-back, with Alexander Isak joined in attack by Mohamed Salah, Florian Wirtz and Cody Gakpo.

Joe Gomez is fit enough for the bench, where there’s a place for 18-year-old striker Will Wright after his promotion to first-team training this week following the injury to Hugo Ekitike.

1 hour ago

Crystal Palace lineup

Crystal Palace XI: Henderson, Munoz, Richards, Lacroix, Canvot, Mitchell, Wharton, Kamada, Johnson, Sarr, Mateta

Subs: Benitez, Lerma, Pino, Clyne, Hughes, Strand Larsen, Sosa, Riad, Devenny

1 hour ago

Liverpool lineup

Liverpool XI: Woodman, Jones, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Salah, Wirtz, Gakpo, Isak

Subs: Pecsi, Gomez, Kerkez, Chiesa, Frimpong, Gravenberch, Nyoni, Ngumoha, Wright

1 hour ago

Glasner won't rest Crystal Palace stars before Shakhtar clash

On the Crystal Palace side of things, here’s what Oliver Glasner had to say when asked if that looming Conference League semi-final first-leg clash with Shakhtar Donetsk in Krakow on Thursday night would influence his team selection at Anfield.

“No,” he said. “Saturday to Thursday feels like a very long spell between.

“We are just preparing the players for the Liverpool game.

“We have the opportunity to beat Liverpool four times in one season which is unique.

1 hour ago

Slot would be 'completely comfortable' using Armin Pecsi

And what would happen if there’s no Alisson Becker at all today and Freddie Woodman were also to suffer an injury?

Then Liverpool would have to call on the fourth man in their goalkeeping pecking order and another low-key signing from last summer, 21-year-old Hungarian youth international Armin Pecsi, who made the senior bench for only the third time against Everton last weekend alongside Woodman with the Reds short on outfield numbers.

“He was already on the bench last week,” Slot said of Pecsi yesterday.

“Because we were short on players, we added Armin to the bench as well because he was doing the warm-up so there was a spot available so he could be the man.

“Of course he's on the bench tomorrow. We think we signed a very talented goalkeeper and he already played minutes at the highest level, I think in Hungary, wasn't it?

“So now he's played multiple games with the U21s and, of course, he gets better and better because if you are every day on the pitch doing finishing drills with the attackers we are having, you are becoming a better goalkeeper.

“Still very young, still progress to be made, but that's completely normal.

Slot insisted that of course Pecsi was not on the level of an Alisson, but said he would be “completely comfortable” if he had to play him at any point this afternoon.