Freddie Woodman explains incident that led to Crystal Palace goal
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Image Credits: Imago ImagesFreddie Woodman’s season has taken a real turn for the better in recent weeks.Signing from Preston North End as Liverpool’s third choice goalkeeper, he appeared destined to pick up just one appearance for Liverpool during the 2025/26 season.However, Mamardashvili suffered a deep wound to his knee during Liverpool’s Merseyside Derby and with Alisson out injured, Arne Slot turned to the one man who he suddenly relied upon.Freddie Woodman came on for Liverpool to make his Premier League debut for the club in a moment when Everton had just equalised and the Hill Dickinson Stadium was bouncing.However, the 29-year-old steadied the ship, and Everton did not add to the scoresheet but Virgil van Dijk did, burying a last-minute header to send Liverpool back to the red side of the city with all three points.Whilst Alisson returned to training in the run-up to yesterday’s game against Crystal Palace, Freddie Woodman started the game between the sticks.Heavily impressing on his full Premier League debut, Woodman made some heroic stops in the first half that saw Alexander Isak and Andy Robertson score at the other end.Despite all of Woodman’s efforts, the shot stopper did concede in the second half in a confusing series of events.Woodman cleared the ball but as he did so he got his knee stuck in the floor and upon initial observations it appeared a really bad injury.He stayed down, and whilst gesturing to the bench in apparent agony, Crystal Palace’s Daniel Munoz pounced on the opportunity to lob the ball into an empty net.Speaking to Sky Sports after the game, as quoted by the Liverpool Echo, Woodman explained the incident: ““The grass was really dry, and my knee got stuck in the ground. I didn’t know what to do.
It didn’t punish us in the end, and the three points are massive.”Freddie Woodman was able to carry on after the goal, and didn’t appear to suffer any consequences from the incident.Despite Munoz’s goal setting up a potentially frantic finale, Florian Wirtz scored moment before the full-time whistle to settle the nerves and propel Liverpool into fourth place after Aston Villa’s slip up at Fulham.Woodman also reflected on what it meant to him to start for Liverpool in the Premier League, adding: “It was an unbelievable moment for me. I didn’t think I would play at Anfield in a Premier League game when I joined this club.“I’m a massive fan now, still, but I wanted to try and help the team as much as I can.
I’ve trained for this. When you’re playing behind top players, it makes my job so much easier.” Freddie Woodman