Steve Nicol pinpoints MULTIPLE MISTAKES by Liverpool vs. Crystal Palace ❌ | ESPN FC 

Liverpool waiting until April to do their best Chelsea impression...

Liverpool have been driven by emotions all season

Money can't buy success. 80m for Nunez for what 🤣

I love when nicol isn’t a happy man 🤣🤣

A decade later, Liverpool once again lets their chances slip away

I like Liverpool's style of play but at times, it's very chaotic. They annihilate great teams, then lose to mediocre teams without them having to break sweat. I think they need to be a little more patient like City and Barcelona

Give crystal palace credit y’all….

2.87 XG this game + 9.35 XG the last 3 games shows Klopp has done his job. He cannot put the ball in the back of the net for the players.

Let's be honest here we've been just getting by all season with late goals. I can only remember a few occasions we've actually played really well. Have relied heavily on our will power to get through. The wheels.have fallen off. But there's a deep lesson here. Nunez is not and will not ever be a league winning striker. He is just far to rash in front of goal. and this has cost us dearly all season. Salah is done. His general play is really bad . I think it's time all parties part way here and get a nice pay day from Saudi for his services. Szobozlai isn't the player we thought he was. There are glimpses but we need more than that. We need ball playing midfielders like Macalister who are bold and take the responsibility needed. Endo has been a fair place holder but a dynamic anchorman is badly needed. What's bitter here is there's been so many games we should have won.. Luton away.... City home arsenal home united home and away. That's another 10points we realistically should be ahead. The season should be over if we have clinical players. Another nearly season unfortunately

All i was rememberimg Crystal palace draw vs Liverpool 3-3 , nostalgia but very sad one 🥲

The probleme is! Klop think on Guardiola and liverpool players think on city players

History repeats itself against palace. Just like in 2014 leading 3 nil palace came back to draw 3-3. We will always remember Suarez crying after the 😂

well city will not let go this opportunity to win again this titel..i think i should congratulate them even still 6 more game to go.. arguably city is the best best team in premier league in recent years, they always score goals, amazing team, pep you are the king in premiere league,🎉 congratulations

Liverpool would've been out of sight on the table if Nunez was a clinical finisher or at least an above average and maybe even an average finisher. His misses are comical at times. Reminds me of Fernando Torres at Chelsea

I think that Liverpool’s late comebacks that they had in a lot of games this season really papered over a lot of cracks. Under Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool are known for being “Mentality Monsters” meaning that there was always a feeling that no matter how poorly they played, they would win and find ways to get results without being at their best. This season alone in the Premier League, they’ve won 27 points from positions and it’s good for any team to have that mentality of not being phased when they’re losing the game especially when you can make impact subs in the 2nd half. One of the issues they’ve had recently has been starting games, because when you’re at that stage where you’re in a very close race to win the league, it gets to a point where this isn’t enough while it works, you can’t keep relying on chasing the game because it’s just not sustainable. After falling behind yet again against Crystal Palace, Liverpool couldn’t find a way through and after many chances they just couldn’t score. Everyone is talking about how their attack is missing too many chances and it’s been wasteful in recent games, but at the back they’ve been sloppy as well, in all competitions they’ve now gone 9 games without a clean sheet and maybe some of the glaring cracks that’ve been masked by these late game comebacks might finally be catching up with them. Something isn’t working for Liverpool, maybe tiredness is playing a toll on them especially since they’ve played multiple games in multiple competitions that could possibly be affecting the player’s form, but when you’re always playing catchup no matter how many times it works, as I said before it was never a sustainable strategy for them to concede the first goal miss a lot of chances make a few changes and then win or draw the game.

Why is nobody talking about Nunez stomping the seat out after the Jones miss lol

One league trophy in nine years is not enough

They don't have execution like sadio mane and bobby firmino, Nunez is still finding his form, haaland different because of the architecture of pep guirdiola

I remember Steve getting so much stick from the comment section here for saying that Salah hasn’t looked right since he came back from injury

The only problem this Liverpool team are having is.. missing chances they've been missing a lot of chances since game against Man Chester united.. They need to on that

I get that Liverpool put themselves in position to score and had some bad luck. Jones' miss is criminal. But most of the rest is down to Palace players getting in blocks or Henderson making outstanding saves. The goal was a gem, incredibly well-worked and a glimpse into what Palace has been missing virtually all season with the long-term injuries to Eze and Olise. Mateta also had two sure goals snatched -- first by Robertson's inch-perfect clearance off the line, and another from Alison's point blank reaction save. Oliver Glasner has this team believing, and today it showed.

The truth is Klopp has got his starting lineup shocking bad in the last two games. Playing Liverpool’s least athletic midfield against one of the most athletic Premier League teams wasn’t good. Especially when Endo completely struggled against them in the first game. Endo has been better than expected but next season we need an athletic powerful DM, because when Slzobo is not in team, there is no physical power in the middle.

Klopp, the team and fans were as one, the 2% rise disrupted the balance and it's cost us.

Somewhere inside anfield klopp is still applauding the crowd

Think it's a classic case of thinking you just need to turn up to win, hard to pick it up if you start like this.

Klopp needs to get Jota, Salah, Nunez, and Gapko on the field at the same time. No more of this rotating them to keep them fresh nonsense. It’s time to put them all on together. The season is nearly over.

Worst I’ve seen us play in a long time. Shocker of a match

Klopp underachieved if he doesn’t win another League. 1 league in 9 years is not enough.

Let's be honest that was a game for the football gods, i promise you if you rewatch that game with the Palace players,they themselves will admit that they have absolutely no idea how they were miraculously defending like that

The senior players have let us down whereas the kids were full of energy, scored goals and there is a natural goal scorer in Danns, who is banging them in for the U21's.

During Mo Salah's absence at the AFCON tournament in January, and also his subsequent injury layoffs, Liverpool played 12 games in the Premier League, FA cup and League cup competitions. Without Salah they won 10, drew 1 and lost 1 scoring 33 goals at an average of 2.75 goals per game, and a win rate of 83%. He came back for the Brentford game on 17th February as a sub for Jota after 44 minutes, but then due to injury didn't play again until the away leg to Sparta Prague on 7th March, when he came on as a sub after 74 minutes. Since then, and including the Brentford game, Liverpool played 10 games in the PL, FA cup and Europa League. They won 5, drew 2 and lost 3, a win rate of only 50%, including two easy games against Sparta Prague. They scored 26 at an average of 2.6 per game, not significantly different than without Salah, but that tally includes 11 against Sparta Prague. In those 10 games Salah scored 7 goals, including a hat-trick against Sparta Prague. Obviously the drastic discrepancy in performance and results are not exclusively down to Mo Salah, but it does demonstrate the law of diminishing returns, probably related to his recent injuries and also low energy associated with fasting during the period of Ramadan from the 10th of March until the 9th of April. It begs the question why he started so many of those games during that fasting period, and why he played 90 minutes against Crystal Palace, when he was largely ineffective and struggling with many basic aspects of the performance. Considering the vast array of physiology and sports science data available to the club it is surprising and disappointing those issues do not seem to have been identified or addressed!

Liverpool have too many players who are just bad at finishing.

Klopp keeps switching the team. One week Konate, one week Gomez, one week Jones, one week Szobo.. Too many changes in the do or die part of the season. His tanks low and it's passed on to the group. "wow" on the sideline..??? He used to scream!! Now he's accepting it.

A fit Jota for a whole season injury free I think would make a difference for lost chances in front of opposition goal mouth

He's gonna light a firecracker aye? Lol

I love seeing Nicol in pain😂, Where's Souness 😂

This time of the season you can’t always play good football. Result more important than good football. Start too slow is a problem for last 2 seasons, and Klopp has never sorted this.

Absolutely spot on Jan. Our frontline sucks

This feels good to hear

I love seeing Nichol under pressure

Conceided a goal in the first half and were unable to find a way back in the game....so many chances but just missed

Liverpools finishing in recent weeks has been dreadful. I know the haven't kept clean sheets but they usually only concede 1 goal; the amount of chances they have missed is why they drew with United and lost to Palace. The general play also suggests the players who have played a lot because of injuries; look tired and the players coming back look rusty. I'm starting to lose faith in Nunez and Dias; Firmino and Mane' were clinical when they got a chance.

Bu-Bu--But I thought Klopp's Kindergarten Kids? Where were they today? 🥺😢😂

It's true, we don't have a striker, mo isn't doing well and Nunez keeps missing. He should give cody a chance to play 7 and Jota should start every game as our 9

Klopp should wait until the end of the season announcing his leaving Liverpool.The players moral drop.

As a Liverpool fan i am furious with Nunez. I haven't even seen the match. But i know he must have missed chances.

VVD slipping aswell was just awful and Robbo clears. We could have easy jabe lost by more again at home. Players comimg back from injury have been terrible.

Nobody else to blame but ourselves. The title was there to be won, 7 games, 7 wins and it was our's and we totally blew it, BIG TIME.

You don't understand: Sven visited LFC 🤣

Steve Nicol in pain, I am loving it.

Klopp ' s effect on players is gone now . He did a phenomenal job in making a merely good side Title contenders ..In the end Liverpool 's squad strength and player fatigue let them down..Liverpool's strikers are all misfiring.. they don't have a world class midfielder besides Alexis ..Van Dijk can not do it EVERY single game, he is human after all..Klopp did his best but sadly everything is falling apart ..It looks unlikely that they will even win the remainder 6 matches now.. I feel sorry for Klopp .. 😢

It could be that this week Liverpool have lost the League race and out of the Europa League

Yan, it's not about the one nil striker. Everything mustn't be about Halaand. Liverpool as a collective are tired.. Haland hasn't scored in 7 until the penalty y'day

Steven G: remember don’t make any crucial slip VVD: yes

Could not agree more than with Nab, Liverpool require a great number 9, Nunez just misses too many goals in front of goal just not cool enough under pressure and just hoofs it instead of placing it.

Agree with Jan. Both pool and arsenal lack that clinical ruthless 9. More so Arsenal tho, I think Maybe nunez can be that with more coaching/exp. But not sure.

I agree with Jan substantially, Lpool had chances but not clinical enough to put the ball into the net? Salah was a split second off the mark, and Curtis Jones probably had the best chance but put the ball wide? 😓😓

Liverpools defence go missing at key moments and players are unmarked in the penalty box keeps happening

You will never bottle alone

It's all in their heads. I love all our forwards for different reasons but we need atleast one that is a natural number 9 who knows how to score consistently, i've never seen a more wasteful team in my whole life.

Agree with Jan 100 percent on Nunez and Diaz. At least Diaz is in low wages. Thiago Alcantara has to be the biggest flop this season - massive wages and constantly injured

I think it's finally time to say goodbye to Salah and Nunez .... terrible, thank goodness for Andy Robertson !!!!!

It's all gone to sh*t since Salah, Robbo etc came back in.

These players have absolutely embarassed klopp idk what happened to them the front 3 missing so many chances and the defense conceding so many chances the players have given up .

how come all of these pundits picked lpool to win the league like 2 weeks ago when they lead with 2 points? i dont even watch that much premier league and was giga certain that lpool aint gonna win it since they are not consistent and had luck beating bad teams with 1 goal permanently. its like these pundits have 0 clue what theyre talking about 😂

Although play wise Liv were not excellent..but there were plenty of scoring chances..if only they could score 2..the entire story would have been different..

Where's Craig Burley when you need him!!! Stevie is so soft when it comes to Liverpool! They were horrible.. Rushing everything, no build up play whatsoever they just wanted to get that equalizer so badly and it didn't work out. Pep would never send his team out to play yhe way Liverpool did in that second half

Do Steve still think virgil van dijk better than sergio ramos

After Mane and Firmino we're sold, we can't see direct football from Liv already. Now's a day, it just passing and passing around wait for the opponent comes back to defend...and still passing 😂😂

Agree with jan

What an abysmal performance yet agsin !!!🤦🏼‍♂️

These past few games have made me realized that although Klopp is a great coach, he certainly underachieved and most of his “success” is mostly superficial and hyped up by folks in the press like Stevie

They have that striker in Jota, he is just coming back.

Jan talking BS, Liverpool walked the league in 2020 and won the CL in 2019 with no deadly striker in the team. Liverpool have Mo Salah he’s our “1-0 striker” problem is he’s not in form.

Yes Salah scores a lot of goals from rhe wing, Diaz also chips in. However, Liverpool are desperately missing a striker, a real goal poacher in the box. Nunez simply isnt it

If nunez was just an average finisher Liverpool would have been out of sight!

Straightforward answer Steve: Liverpool are overhyped and so is Klopp. Here I said it!

Liverpool don't have a player that could dribble pass opponents into the box & either could score or got tackle to earn a penalty.. there's no one two passes & they just cross the ball into the box & hoping for strikers to head the ball to score but it was easy for crystal palace defenders to get to the ball first.. Liverpool lack ideas coz they don't have the abilities that I mentioned.

I really hope that Micheal Edwards is ruthless in the summer if LFC can cash in on Diaz and get even half our money back for Nunez I would take it. Both of them are too much of a downgrade on Firmino and Mane for Liverpool to win the league.

Again for 4th time liverpool losing Premier league against Man City With 1 Point,he he he,

Liverpool have brought in a whole new midfield Szoboszlai, Endo, Mac Allister, Gravenberch, Thiago has played 1 game & Bajcetic none. Now i am not making excuses but i wasnt thinking we would win a title this year & the fact we have come this close is a good season.. I was thinking that next season we will buy a few more players & next season win the title..

The last guy 👦 has got the point right 👉

It's the curse of letting Mane leave the club.

Well done Palace

Liverpool has about ten 1-0 strikers. It is not at all about missing any particular kind of player. Wrong analysis. The whole team is playing badly and I don’t know why, but that is the reason.

We keep conceding first, that is our biggest problem.

U tell me Liverpool lost 2 titles because of their captains slipping when it matters 😂😅😂😅

The 9 lives are over. We now need a miracle, the lads were sluggish in defence which led to the goal. Only time will tell. Curtis was running around like a headless chicken and that was a man less in midfield, Harvey or Gakpo should have started the game and our midfield would have been effective... YNWA

Following back to back games in the premier league where they failed to win, Liverpool are now relying on other results to win the Premier League title. They’ve had a dismal week that’s threatened to ruin Jurgen Klopp’s farewell season at Liverpool as they lost back to back home games in 2 different competitions first 3-0 a loss to Atalanta in the Europa League and now a 1-0 loss to Crystal Palace meaning that Manchester City are now back on top of the Premier League table. There’s been a common theme that’s been costing Liverpool games of late which is their lackluster finishing in front of goal before the amount of chances that they’ve missed, I think the Liverpool players have the Darwin Nunez seriously. Normally they find a way to come back from behind whenever they’re trailing, but this time around his substitutions weren’t enough to change the tide of the game. It’s either wake up or kiss the title goodbye because at the end of February, Liverpool were in the race to win a quadruple, now they’ve been knocked out of the FA Cup to Manchester United, they’ve failed to win back to back premier league games and are also going out of Europe meaning that they could end the season with just the Carabao Cup to show for it.

Disagree with Steve. Liverpool’s style of play was no different from usual. Fast, chaotic, high intensity. The only difference is that they couldn’t finish their chances. Score those, and the whole perspective is different.

Nunez is just so so so bad.. It cringes me everytime the Kop chants his name, dude thinks HE'S THE MAN now with that no.9 shirt and the crowd chanting his name. He's been absolutely HORRENDOUS.

You don't need a top striker. You need to score goals. City won countless trophies playing with midfielders.

Overconfidence as shot Liverpool in the foot. Keep winning late in games have given them a false sense of security.

Simply wasn’t Liverpools day we had atleast 4 shots point blank that were saved by the keeper or a defender. At that point you just have to accept it’s not your day.

Team looks so leggy and out of form... Dead on their feet. I am worried we will not win another game this season and could even drop out of the top 4... Was not impressed with Klopp and his negative demeanor on the sidelines. Kept mouthing Wow!

That's not taking Europa seriously....

I just wanna ask Kasey have u watched Inter Miami match vs Kanses City with a brilliant assist n a wonder goal from Messi in front of 72000 fans. U and Craigh said they r not faltering. Well not not the goat. Liverpool n other top club should have a player like Messi ok

Livapuli... if Arsenal are the King bottlers then Liverpool are the Queens, someone organize an official marriage.

Next season much wringing of hands at Annfield

Give credit to Crystal palace and in reality Liverpool are not that great… a lot of last minute goals that’s is not sustainable