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The Merseyside club present an fresh side, the majority of first-team players rested. The defender, desperate to play himself into some form, stands as the sole individual to retain his starting spot after the setback at Thomas Frank’s side last weekend. Reserve keeper the goalkeeper and teenage wide player Kieran Morrison make their club debuts, while the team also features young attacker Ngumoha and teenage midfielder Trey Nyoni. None of the substitutes is older than 21; the substitute is the bench player with most games with nine matches on his resumé.

The visitors by contrast keep half a dozen from the team sent out for the 1-0 defeat at the Gunners on Sunday. Guéhi, Maxence Lacroix, Daniel Muñoz, Sarr, Pino and Kamada all hold onto their shirts. He has a handful of strikes against this opponent in eight matches for both clubs, while one of the players coming into the side, Nketiah, netted the decisive goal when the teams clashed at their home ground last month.

Team Sheets

Anfield outfit: Woodman, Ramsay, Trey Nyoni, Gomez, Andy Robertson, Endo, Milos Kerkez, The winger, Alexis Mac Allister, The attacker, Chiesa.
Reserves: Pecsi, Kaide Gordon, Pilling, Kone-Doherty, Pinnington, Figueroa, The sub, The player, The reserve.

Crystal Palace: The goalkeeper, The defender, Maxence Lacroix, The defender, The full-back, Will Hughes, The midfielder, Sosa, Ismaila Sarr, The winger, Nketiah.
Subs: Henderson, Tyrick Mitchell, Lerma, The player, The forward, Nathaniel Clyne, Esse, Devenny, The sub.

Referee: The referee (South Yorkshire).

Match Background

The home side have traditionally faced difficulties with this opponent as challenging rivals. Not exactly always – they have more victories – but when the Eagles defeat the Reds, they really hit, and hit hard. Their 1990 cup meeting. Crystanbul. The recent curtain-raiser. The recent encounter that precipitated this astonishing collapse of the champions, their initial defeat in a run of poor results.

Consider another couple of sequences into the mix. Of the last eight meetings between the clubs, Crystal Palace have won three (including the charity match as a win), Liverpool just two wins. More concerning the Merseyside club are the recent results at Anfield: The Eagles have won one and drawn two of the most recent trio. Crystal Palace have a strong upper hand over tonight’s hosts at the moment.

Despite this, the Eagles are in a poor run of their own. They’ve lost three of their fixtures in every tournament, failing to win domestically since that aforementioned capitulation-triggering visit of Liverpool to their home. So here are a couple of teams who would benefit from a boost to turn their year around. That alone should give us a fair chance of some entertaining action tonight, though any broader implications may hinge on what sides the two managers decide to select; they’re unlikely to be full-strength teams. We will see about that soon enough. The match begins is at 7:45 in the evening. It’s on!