Jota scrapes leaders Liverpool past Palace but Alisson exits with injury

Jota scrapes leaders Liverpool past Palace but Alisson exits with injury

Liverpool are a club that live on emotions. There’s be no shame in that. What else is football for than a swell of feelings? But if it was love at first sight with Jürgen Klopp, when will the faithful fall for Arne Slot? A superb start to the season, top of the table when it was supposed to be Arsenal and Manchester City streaking away, he could hardly have done a better job. Too cool for school? Possibly. A hangover from those last days of the Klopp romance ending so bittersweetly? Almost certainly.

Slot himself is happy to be stay cool, distant. “Brilliant would have been nine wins out of nine,” he demurred before kick-off. There will be no touchline pogo, no bearlike screams, even if he can be demonstrative from the technical area.

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