Debutant Solanke, Mane inspire Liverpool to Crystal Palace victory

This was far from vintage Liverpool who, for once, struggled in front of goal despite peppering the Palace defence with 16 shots – half of them on target.

ROMELU LUKAKU has come in to 2/1 to finish as the Premier League top scorer. “The main aim is to win trophies with this team”.

“He was the first player I loved to watch and I remember the game against France [at the 2002 World Cup] when we won, leaving school to watch in my friend’s house”, he told the Daily Mail.

Liverpool, and Anfield in particular, has been a lucky fixture for the south Londoners.

Klopp believes it was a hard match given Palace’s desire to sit back and praised his players for their performance. The Dutch tactician will be worrying about his side incapability to score goals in the last 5 league games.

Benteke has done a lot of damage for and against Liverpool in recent seasons. The Belgian striker is fond of scoring goals against The Reds, and I expect him not to disappoint in this tie.

“At the end you know these kind of games are decisive the chances that you get you have to punish them of course Christian [Benteke] had the biggest one”.

With Frank de Boer continuing to deploy the three-man-defensive formation that he’s so keen to see work at Selhurst Park, it gave Ruben Loftus-Cheek the freedom to drive forward often in an impressive display.

The Reds missed Coutinho’s creativity for large sections of Saturday’s win, but with Mane’s help manager Jurgen Klopp’s side are 1-0-1.

Meanwhile, Klopp expects to welcome Daniel Sturridge back into the fold after he returned to full training. We played a little deeper but also that was because Liverpool are a team you have to respect.

Dejan Lovren, Alberto Moreno, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Emre Can are all on the bench after playing two games in four days.

However, Senegal winger Mane finally made the difference, capitalising on a mistake by Luka Milivojevic to slot past Wayne Hennessey with 17 minutes to go.

Crystal Palace will be without Wilfried Zaha (knee), but Yohan Cabaye and James McArthur could feature after returning from injury.