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Match report: Crystal Palace 2-2 Liverpool (3-2 pens)
Ed Aarons was at Wembley for us this afternoon – I’ll leave you with his report.
Dean Henderson’s reaction
I could barely hear your question (because of the noise of the Palace fans). These emotions are fantastic. We deserved that in the end – the manager said we’d get chances at 2-1 and we did.
I love the big moments, I really enjoyed that today. The homework we did for the penalties was great so thanks to everyone behind the scenes who helped me with that.
Two trophies in three months: that’s incredible. Let’s fight for the next bit of history.
Palace’s players are all smiles – not least Dean Henderson, who reinforced his reputation as one of the world’s best penalty-savers. Don’t be surprised if Henderson is a 119th-minute substitute for England at next year’s World Cup.
The year 2025 was already the greatest in Palace’s history; this just enhances it.
Crystal Palace win the Community Shield!
Devenny scores! Crystal Palace 2-2 Liverpool (3-2 pens)
Devenny bullets his penalty past Alisson to seal victory for Crystal Palace, who are winners at Wembley for the second time in three months. That’s the best penalty of the whole shootout.
Szoboszlai scores! Palace 2-2 Liverpool
An emphatic penalty, struck so well that Henderson had no chance despite going the right way. Justin Devenny, who came on as sub right at the end of extra-time, has a kick to win it for Palace.
Sosa misses! Palace 2-1 Liverpool
The new signing Borna Sosa hits the underside of the crossbar, so the penalty shootout continues. Both teams have taken four of their five.
Henderson saves from Elliott! Palace 2-1 Liverpool
Palace are at match point. Not a great penalty – Henderson read it and made a comfortable save to his right.
Sarr scores! Palace 2-1 Liverpool
Nonchalance itself: a walk-up to the ball and a sweet sidefoot into the corner. Alisson went the right way and had no chance.
Gakpo scores! Palace 1-1 Liverpool Gakpo sends Henderson the wrong way. The commentators thought Alisson was off his line when he saved from Eze incidentally.
Eze misses! Palace 1-0 Liverpool Told you the keepers were good. But Alisson may have been off his line before diving to save Eze’s tame penalty.
Nope, VAR says Alisson was fine and the save stands.
Mac Allister misses! Palace 1-0 Liverpool
Henderson makes a brilliant save, low to his left, and doffs his baseball cap to the Palace fans.
Mateta scores! Palace 1-0 Liverpool
Nicely done, sidefooted crisply to the same side as in the match proper. Alisson went the right way this time, to his left, but couldn’t get there.
Salah misses! Palace 0-0 Liverpool
Mo Salah completes a bad day at the office by smashing his penalty over the bar.
Dean Henderson and Alisson both have excellent penalty records, so this could be fun.
Full time: Crystal Palace 2-2 Liverpool
And so to penalties.
90+6 min The substitute Devenny almost wins it for Palace, sidefooting just wide from 20 yards after a nice run from Eze. Alisson probably had it covered on reflection.
90+3 min: Palace substitution Justin Devenny comes on for Marc Guehi.
90+2 min The corner is half cleared and knocked back to Szoboszlai, whose shot from the edge of the area is comfortably saved by Henderson.
90 min Five minutes of added time. Guehi is down with what looks like cramp. Salah runs behind him and Lacroix comes across to concede a corner.
89 min Mac Allister clears the ball with an overhead kick and catches Hughes in the head during his follow through. Hughes stays on his feet, which may have helped Mac Allister.
88 min Salah is booked for a foul on someone.
86 min There’s no extra-time so this will go straight to penalties if there are no more goals.
85 min: Crystal Palace substitution Jefferson Lerma replaces Adam Wharton, who showed again that he is good enough to play for any team in the world.
84 min: Liverpool substitutions Harvey Elliott replaces Florian Wirtz, who peppered the match with moments of class, and Andy Robertson comes on for Milos Kerkez at left back.
83 min Sarr and Munoz gallop forward on the break for Palace. Munoz cuts the ball back to Mateta, who wafts lazily over the bar from the edge of the area.
82 min: Chance for Salah Kerkez scoots down the left and fires a cross into Salah. He gets across the defender, 12 yards out, but whacks his shot too close to Henderson.
80 min: No penalty A long cross hit the outstretched arm of Mac Allister, who mistimed his attempted header. There are plenty of times in the last seven or eight years that would have been given.
79 min: Fine defending by Kerkez! Sarr’s shot deflects over after a desperate tackle from Kerkez. He did brilliantly there. But Palace want a penalty for a handball by Mac Allister earlier in the move.
79 min: Palace substitution Borna Sosa, a Croatian left wing-back signed from Ajax, replaces Tyrick Mitchell.
After Gakpo was muscled off the ball by Hughes, Wharton clipped a cute early pass through to Ismaila Sarr. Van Dijk had come out, looking for offside, which allowed Sarr to gallop into the space and sidefoot the ball past the outrushing Alisson. It hit the inside of the near post and ricocheted into the net.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 2-2 Liverpool (Sarr 77)
Palace equalise for the second time!
74 min Frimpong is on his feet now. He’s moving gingerly but looks as if he thinks he can run it off.
73 min Frimpong is down and looks in a bit of pain. Wharton won a bouncing ball but then followed through with his studs into the side of Frimpong’s leg.
72 min Szoboszlai’s long-range shot bounces awkwardly and is saved at the second attempt by Henderson.
71 min: Double substitution for Liverpool While the other players take a drinks break, Liverpool introduce Wataru Endo and Alexis Mac Allister in place of Hugo Ekitike and Curtis Jones. Ekitike had a fine debut and scored the opening goal after four minutes.
69 min A decent chance for Wirtz, who shoots miles over the bar from the edge of the area. He’s better than that.
65 min Eze’s ball into the box is read by Alisson, who has radiated authority in goal. Liverpool have a helluva long-term replacement, but Giorgi Mamardashvili will have to wait his turn.
In other news, Daniel Harris is on duty for this afternoon’s Championship game.
62 min: Good save by Alisson! Palace continue to threaten. Wharton reads Szoboszlai’s pass, moves forward and slides the ball to Eze on the left of the area. He forces a left-foot shot that Alisson saves with his legs at the near post; excellent goalkeeping.
61 min Wharton’s deep corner is headed straight at Alisson by Richards. Not a bad chance; as Ally McCoist says on TNT Sports, Richards needed to strain his neck muscles to head back across Alisson.
59 min Alisson has to come out of his area to beat Mateta to a lofted through ball. Palace are having a good spell.
57 min: Chance for Palace? Guehi’s cross from the left is nodded on by Mateta and then headed wide by the stooping Sarr in the six-yard box. He was in an offside position, though Van Dijk also got a slight touch on the ball so goodness knows.
Van Dijk’s touch probably stopped Sarr from scoring, but then without the touch Sarr would definitely have been offside.
54 min Ekitike declines the chance of a shot from the edge of the D, instead slipping an angled pass into Salah on the right side of the area. His ball across is cut out.
Palace break and Eze loses his balance in the area under pressure from Konate and Jones. It wasn’t a foul.
52 min: Chance for Ekitike An excellent move down the left from Liverpool. Kerkez finds Wirtz, who arrows a precise low cross towards Ekitike, who sweeps a first-time shot wide of the near post. That was a decent chance.
49 min Munoz tries to make another lung-busting run and is accidentally tripped by the referee Chris Kavanagh. I think he’s okay.
46 min Ekitike misses a good chance inside 45 seconds, heading Kerkez’s cross wide from six yards. I think he was fractionally offside so it might not have counted anyway.
46 min Liverpool get the second half under way. No changes at the break, though the 16-year-old Rio Ngumoha was warming up on the pitch during the interval.
Half-time reading
“Hey Rob, there’s fitba on today too,” writes Simon McMahon. “Tannadice is bathed in summer sunshine, and the United fans are basking in the warm glow of a famous result in Vienna on Thursday night, and now a brilliant double by new signing Ivan Drago Dolcek to put United 2-1 up against Hearts after Lawrence Shankland had opened the scoring from the penalty spot. It’s like 1984 all over again, so looking forward to a bit of FGTH at half time, but without the fear of an imminent nuclear holocaust …”
Half time: Crystal Palace 1-2 Liverpool
Plenty of fun in the Wembley sun, where Liverpool new boys Hugo Ekitike and Jeremie Frimpong scored either side of Jean-Philippe Mateta’s penalty for Palace.
The timing of both Liverpool goals was notable. Ekitike scored inside four minutes on his debut. And Frimpong’s goal came after 20 minutes, 20 seconds, just as the Liverpool supporters were celebrating their eternal No20, Diogo Jota.
45+4 min Wirtz, on the left of the area, clips a nice pass to Frimpong on the edge of the area. The ball won’t sit down and Frimpong shoots over.
Wirtz has strolled through the game; he looks a class act.
45+2 min Munoz is found in space once again and flashes a really dangerous ball across the face of goal. Sarr, who was trying to get on the end of it, went flying after a slight touch from Konate; there’s no suggestion that it was a foul.
45 min There will be seven minutes of added time. Wirtz has just been booked for kicking the ball away.
43 min Konate is booked for tripping Mateta to thwart a Palace counter-attack.
39 min It’s been a patchy performance from Liverpool’s refurbished side. To expect anything more at this stage of the season with four new players would be unrealistic. All the new players have had good moments, Ekitike’s emphatic early goal being the pick of them. (Unless Frimpong meant his goal, in which case close the book on the Ballon d’Or.)
36 min Eze’s nice crossfield pass releases Munoz, the ever-willing bullet train on the right. His cross bounces past a couple of players and is hooked over from 15 yards by Hughes. Tough chance.
Munoz is indefatigability personified; so much fun to watch.