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View image in fullscreenAnalysisReality check for Liverpool after summer transfers and tragedy at Wembley

Despite goals from two new signings, Liverpool’s Community Shield defeat asks fresh questions of Arne Slot

Wembley was supposed to be a case of the men who weren’t there.

It ended up posing questions of the team asked to defend the Premier League title.

Alexander Isak may become a Liverpool player.

That will be decided soon enough by the transfer market; a game of charades is being played before money eventually dictates its conclusion.

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Modern football’s eternal melodramas fade into insignificance when considering the player Isak could replace as a Liverpool centre?forward.

Before kick-off, Wembley was supposed to observe a minute’s silence, only for an idiot fringe of Crystal Palace’s fans to shame themselves by chanting – a tiny number, though enough for a booed response from Liverpool fans with the referee, Chris Kavanagh, blowing his whistle quickly.

That he scored on 20min 20sec, as Liverpool fans remembered Jota, showed perfect timing, too.

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That Eberechi Eze, drifting inside left, had Frimpong’s defensive measure was just one problem.

Marc Guéhi, a central defender Liverpool are linked with but may be beyond their spending limits should Isak actually arrive, showed typical cool as Palace assumed control in the second half.