Good afternoon and welcome to Eurosport’s coverage of Liverpool’s trip to Selhurst Park. Already eight points clear at the top of the table, can the Reds kick on at a ground where they have an excellent recent record but also painful memories of squandering a lead? Team news is on the way next...

Liverpool win a free-kick narrowly inside the Palace half, but the angle isn't really there for the cross and the hosts clear.

And we're off.

It's a grey afternoon in south London as the players emerge from the tunnel. Liverpool are in white, Palace in their usual colours.

However, Lovren is part of a Liverpool defence that hasn't kept a clean sheet in any of its last nine matches.

Dejan Lovren will be relived that Yannick Bolasie isn’t in the Eagles team today.

Ex-Reds boss Roy Hodgson has played Liverpool six times since leaving Anfield, winning twice and losing four times. He's never beaten them as Palace manager.

Liverpool are 29 games unbeaten in the Premier League and have lost just one of their last 25 road games in the league.

Goals, goals, goals.

After an impressive start to the season, Palace have stalled somewhat and picked up just one point from their last four games. To be fair, those matches were against three of the top four and Arsenal. They would love for Zaha to regain his best form through - he hasn't yet scored for Palace this season.

When it comes to this fixture, who could forget? Even though Liverpool have a great record here since, this game still looms large in the memory.

Despite that, Klopp was full of praise for Palace pre-game. "Their home games are pretty special because it's a really nice atmosphere there, they make it difficult,” he said. Klopp also commented that he thought Palace’s recent defeats didn’t tell the whole picture, insisting that “they made it tough for everyone” and are "a proper threat in the counter-attack."

Liverpool have won five games in a row at Selhurst Park, scoring at least twice in each of those matches.

As for Liverpool, Mo Salah is only fit enough for a place on the bench. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain takes his place and will presumably play in a wide position, but that's the only change to team that beat Manchester City last time out. Joe Gomez is among the substitues.

LIVERPOOL: Alisson, Robertson, Van Dijk, Lovren, Alexander-Arnold, Fabinho, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Firmino, Mane. Subs: Adrian, Milner, Gomez, Keita, Lallana, Salah, Origi.

First the hosts, who name an unchanged starting line-up to the one that lost 2-0 at Chelsea before the international break. Wilfried Zaha is indeed fit to start, while ex-Liverpool men Christian Benteke and Martin Kelly are among the substitutes.

CRYSTAL PALACE: Guaita, Ward, Cahill, Tomkins, Van Aanholt, McArthur, Kouyate, Milivojevic, Townsend, Zaha, Ayew. Subs: Hennessey, Dann, Kelly, Schlupp, Meyer, McCarthy, Benteke.