That's more like it from Florian Wirtz! | Crystal Palace 1-3 Liverpool | Pajak's Match Reaction

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Hi, everyone. Welcome to The Redmen TV, Liverpool 3, Crystal Palace 1 And what should a bit of clean sheet for Liverpool, to be honest with you? I'm not 100% sure that a penalty should be given against Milos Kyrgyz for being headbutted in the face, but what the flippin heck do I know? I mean, it just seemed a little bit ridiculous to me, to be honest with you. I am fuming about it.

I know that their man gets there first, but I also know that he headbutts Milos Kyrgyz in the face, and so it just seems a little bit ridiculous and redundant to then just go and give a penalty. Wild, wild, wild, wild decision making from referees in the Premier League. Who'd have thought that one then? Not me, except I would every single week, because there's always something isn't there for them to chat about. And the game on it, you know.

Yeah, to talk about the actual football, I suppose, it's really struggling me where today, I don't know what it is. I had a little bit of a drink last night, but not enough that it should make a difference like this. It's been like this all day, to be honest with you. But anyway, I digress. And the game, I thought Liverpool started really brightly, to be honest with you. And I was quite impressed with Barcola in the early phases of the game down the left hand side, looking to get at his man.

But then as the game got to about the, probably made the 10, 15 minute mark, I thought Crystal Palace really came into it, really struggled with their sort of formation. Obviously PSR has set them up in the sort of three, four, two, one formation. And there was lots of space and they were doubling up on our full backs, lots of space in those wide areas for them. Thought Orujo wasn't probably being helped out enough by Gakpoh on the right-hand side. Lothbar Kohler maybe wasn't helping out Milos Kerkes enough. You could question some of his position maybe at different phases. Obviously, massive performance from Alisson Becker, to be honest with you. Six brilliant saves throughout the course of the game. Obviously, there's a one-on-one which is absolutely superb. There's a one-way to the volley that's crossed over from the left-hand side to the back post to the right. They had two unmarked players, inexplicably for that chance. Alisson makes an unbelievable save there. Thought his kicker was good, under pressure he was good, ball at his feet. No silly decision making today. Real top draw performance from a top goalkeeper, and Alisson Becker today. I thought that Liverpool really struggle with that. In the second half, I think they switch the wingers, they switch Gach Po and Barcola to the opposite side. Barcola does a lot of tracking back, Gach Po does a lot of tracking back. Says to me that the manager, Andoni Iraloa, had a word with the wingers about how we were going to stop them from attacking us and stop having all of that space. But look, it's a nice free kick from Suboslai that makes Liverpool go 1-0 up. A great header from Alexis McAllister. Excuse me. And I think it's really interesting because obviously the focus is on Virgil van Dijk and Araujo and Jacque, and yet they were really all just blocking for Alexis McAllister. I think that was the plan on that free kick all along, to be honest with you. I think they really were sort of thinking, let's get Alexis to the front post, if he can lose his man and he did, he lost Timber, gets the front stick, heads it down, nice glancing header past Dean Henderson who's unable to get anything on it. One nil. Cool.

Breathing room, my word. Do we need it? Yes, we do. At that point, probably, I think it's fair to say that Isaac and Florian Wirtz weren't massively in the game. Wirtz had a couple of opportunities early doors where he fizzed the ball into players and he was looking nice and tidy. We had a couple where probably played a couple of passes behind Alexander Isaac and maybe another one. I can't quite remember who that one was. Maybe it was Iraloa on the right-hand side. Maybe.