National media make brutal Liverpool transfer point as 'beating' triggers Arne Slot taunts
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A look at how the national media reported Liverpool's 3-0 loss to Crystal Palace in the Carabao Cup.A makeshift Liverpool tumbled out of the Carabao Cup at the fourth-round stage on Wednesday night as Arne Slot's side lost 3-0 at Anfield to Crystal Palace.The ECHO, as ever, was there to provide our usual match-day mix of verdict, player ratings, analysis and reactions of both Slot and Palace boss Oliver Glasner. Here's what they made of it as the Reds slipped to their sixth defeat in seven games.Paul Joyce, of The Times, reflects: "Whether the teamsheet spoke of sacrifice or surrender can be debated, but the bottom line is that Liverpool’s campaign contains another loss - and yet another defeat by Crystal Palace."The circumstances contrasted to those reverses already suffered in the Community Shield and the Premier League this season as Arne Slot fielded a second-string side, albeit one that still contained a World Cup winner and a European Championship winner."Yet whether it is the first team or the understudies, Liverpool have forgotten the art of winning.
In a rematch, Palace reinforced the sense they are Liverpool’s bogey side, and Ismaila Sarr their bogey player."No wonder their exuberant fans asked if they could play Liverpool every week. Oliver Glasner’s overachievers have now chalked up a hat-trick, overcoming Liverpool in the Community Shield, the Premier League and now the Carabao Cup."'I don't know how often this happens when you play the champions three times within three months, and you win three times,' said the Palace manager.
Ask any Palace fan – they tell you the last year has been the most fun of their lives following this club."Liverpool ended the game with 10 men after youngster Amara Nallo was sent off 12 minutes after coming on. Arne Slot made 10 changes to the team which was beaten and bullied at Brentford – and the B Team were comfortably swatted away by Palace."And the ECHO's verdict reads: "If anyone was wondering how much Arne Slot was feeling the heat during the worst run of his Liverpool tenure, they were given their answer when the team news dropped at 6.30pm."It would have been easy for an embattled manager, knee deep in the mire after five defeats in six, to have picked a slew of his big guns for this fourth-round tie against Crystal Palace."Instead, Slot selected the exact sort of team that the Liverpool boss would reasonably be expected to at this stage of a competition that, plainly, sits bottom in the list of priorities.