Liverpool vs Crystal Palace LIVE: Premier League result, latest updates and reaction

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·25 avril 2026

Liverpool vs Crystal Palace LIVE: Premier League result, latest updates and reaction

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.

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Virgil van Dijk’s 100th-minute header to win the first Merseyside derby at the Hill Dickinson Stadium will live long in the memory as pressure eased on Arne Slot, who will be hopeful of ending a four-game winless run against Palace that has included three successive losses - including in the Community Shield at Wembley in August. The 13th-place Eagles head to Merseyside unbeaten in four domestically, but with much of the focus now on their quest to reach the Conference League final.

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!

Liverpool vs Crystal Palace highlights

GOAL! Wirtz wraps up win with last-gasp rocket

GOAL! Munoz curls into empty net with Woodman down

Salah goes off with hamstring injury in second half

GOAL! Robertson on the counter after Woodman save

GOAL! Isak fires home to break deadlock

First-half penalty award for Salah overturned

Live updates

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Liverpool 3-1 Crystal Palace

Some nervy moments late on at Anfield but resurgent Liverpool rise above Aston Villa into fourth place with a third straight Premier League win.

They are now behind rivals Manchester United - who host Brentford on Monday night - by virtue of having scored only one goal fewer so far this season, with their goal differences identical.

The two sides go head to head at Old Trafford next weekend of course.

Liverpool will be hoping that Mohamed Salah injury is not too serious, while I’m sure Arne Slot will have plenty to say about that controversial Daniel Munoz goal.

Alexander Isak back on the scoresheet is a very welcome sight in light of Hugo Ekitike’s absence.

Certainly not a bad performance by any means from Crystal Palace, who stay 13th and six points adrift of the top seven with five games to go.

They travel to Bournemouth next weekend, but all eyes will first be on the first leg of their Conference League semi-final tie against Shakhtar Donetsk in Krakow on Thursday night.