With five games left to secure a fifth place finish in the Premier League and qualification for next season’s Champions League, Arne Slot’s Liverpool will be determined to claim all three points at Anfield on Saturday.
Crystal Palace have been a bogey team for the Reds over the years, but a win is essential.
Liverpool are winless in their last three Premier League home games against Crystal Palace (D2 L1), having won five in a row against them at Anfield before this.
Following their 2-1 win in September, Crystal Palace are looking to complete the league double over Liverpool for just the third time, after 1991/92 and 2014/15.
Crystal Palace won 3-0 away at Liverpool in the EFL Cup earlier this season – the last team to beat the Reds twice at Anfield in the same season were Arsenal in 2006/07.
Liverpool have won six of their last 10 Premier League games (D1 L3), more than in their previous 18 combined (W5 D6 L7). They could win three league games in a row for a fourth time this season.
There have been nine 90th-minute winning goals in Liverpool’s Premier League games this season (4 winners, 5 defeats), two more than in any other team’s games in a season in Premier League history.
Mohamed Salah has scored in each of his last three Premier League starts (three goals), having only scored two goals in his previous 14 starts. He’ll be 33 years and 314 days on the day of this game, with Cristiano Ronaldo the last player that old to score in four starts in a row in the competition (37 years, 86 days in May 2022).
