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Liverpool have named an youthful team, with the vast bulk of regular starters given the night off. Kerkez, seeking to improve match sharpness, stands as the sole individual to start again after the setback at Thomas Frank’s side last weekend. Reserve keeper the goalkeeper and teenage wide player the winger are handed first starts, while the lineup also features 17-year-old winger the forward and youthful engine room player Nyoni. The reserve players is older than 21; the substitute is the bench player with most games with nine first-team outings on his resumé.

Crystal Palace in comparison retain six players from the team deployed for the narrow loss at the Gunners on Sunday. The defender, Maxence Lacroix, Daniel Muñoz, The winger, The attacker and Kamada all start once more. He has a handful of strikes against the Reds in eight matches for both clubs, while one of the players coming into the side, the striker, scored the winner when the teams met at Selhurst last month.

Team Sheets

The Reds: Woodman, Ramsay, Nyoni, Gomez, Andy Robertson, Wataru Endo, Milos Kerkez, Kieran Morrison, The playmaker, Rio Ngumoha, The forward.
Subs: The sub, Kaide Gordon, The player, Kone-Doherty, The youngster, The defender, Nallo, Lucky, Laffey.

The Eagles: Benitez, Canvot, Maxence Lacroix, Guehi, Daniel Munoz, The midfielder, Kamada, Sosa, The attacker, Pino, Nketiah.
Subs: Dean Henderson, The defender, The midfielder, Uche, Jean-Philippe Mateta, Nathaniel Clyne, Esse, Devenny, Cardines.

Match referee: Pawson (The region).

Preamble

The Merseysiders have traditionally faced difficulties with this opponent as challenging rivals. Not invariably – they have more victories – but when the visitors defeat the Liverpool, they land a blow, and hit hard. Their 1990 cup meeting. The memorable comeback. This season’s Community Shield. The recent encounter that triggered this astonishing collapse of Arne Slot’s champion side, their initial defeat in a string of losses.

Consider another set of results into the mix. Of the previous fixtures between the clubs, Crystal Palace have triumphed three times (factoring in the season opener as a win), the home side just two. More concerning the Reds are the latest outcomes at Liverpool’s stadium: The visitors have won one and drawn two of the previous three. The Eagles have a firm grip over the home team at the moment.

Having said all that, the Eagles are in a bit of a rut of their own. They’ve lost three of their recent games in all competitions, not securing a win domestically since that aforementioned capitulation-triggering fixture to Selhurst. So here are two sides who need a bolt of season-reviving energy. That alone should give us a good possibility of some entertaining action tonight, though any long-term significance may be influenced by what teams Slot and Oliver Glasner decide to select; it’s not expected to be Premier League first XIs. But we’ll find out about that in due course. The start is at 19:45 GMT. We’re underway!