Arne Slot’s gamble on Liverpool’s youth backfires as Ismaila Sarr leads way in Palace three-peat

Liverpool’s Amara Nallo was dismissed on a bad night for the hosts (PA)

It is not a crisis to be eliminated from the Carabao Cup by this excellent Crystal Palace side. Not with 10 changes, with two debutants starting, three teenagers beginning the game, with a creche on the bench. Not even when it was Arne Slot’s heaviest defeat as Liverpool manager.

But for him and them, a second successive Anfield beating nevertheless compounded the wider sense that the wheels have fallen off, suddenly and stunningly.

Liverpool have lost six of their last seven matches, and each of their last six in England.

It is the sort of run which would have felt inconceivable when they went to Selhurst Park little

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