The Crystal Palace manager’s team are patently capable of producing competitive, creative football, the kind that can pose problems for a side even as ruthlessly efficient as Liverpool. But, once again, their quality only emerges in fits and starts; the product of mid-game changes or the intervention of the half-time whistle.

Crystal Palace have endured a difficult start to the season, and manager Oliver Glasner has subsequently faced criticism for not knowing his best eleven yet, and for not fielding a settled back-line.

Crystal Palace boss claims Eberechi Eze has been "fantastic" despite the South London club sitting in the bottom three, with his side's No.10 having been left out of the England squad