Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, left, challenges for the ball with Crystal Palace’s Jeffrey Schlupp throughout the Premier League soccer match between Crystal Palace and Liverpool at Selhurst Park, in London, England, on December 9, 2023.
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Mohamed Salah netted his 200th goal for Liverpool and Harvey Elliott scored a stoppage-time winner as Liverpool got here from behind to beat 10-man Crystal Palace 2-1 and go top of the Premier League desk after a rip-roaring conflict on Saturday.
Liverpool top the standings on 37 factors, one forward of Arsenal who face Aston Villa afterward Saturday, after a recreation that centred on the sending-off of Eagles ahead Jordan Ayew for a second yellow playing cards after an innocuous infringement within the seventy fifth minute.
Referee Andrew Madley was within the thick of issues all through the sport, doling out eight yellow playing cards to the house aspect and denying them a penalty within the first half after being known as to the sideline in a VAR assessment.
Palace finally took the lead from a penalty within the 57th minute after one other prolonged video assessment discovered that Jean-Philippe Mateta had been fouled by Liverpool centre-back Jarell Quansah, and Mateta stroked the ball residence from the spot.
Liverpool hadn’t managed a single shot on track and had been struggling to create possibilities till Ayew, who was first booked for not retreating from a free kick on the hour mark, was booked once more and dismissed within the seventy fifth minute after a harmless-looking problem.
Salah struck simply over one minute later, netting his one hundred and fiftieth Premier League goal to cancel out Mateta’s penalty with Liverpool’s first shot on track within the recreation.
Knowing a win would ship them to the top of the league, Liverpool continued to pour ahead and their persistence paid off when substitute Elliott rattled within the winner within the first minute of second-half stoppage time to the delight of the travelling followers.
