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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 24135361" data-attributes="member: 158020">Liverpool 4 Crystal Palace 3: Salah  reaches 50 thanks to Speroni shocker  <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/01/19/16/8731930-6610199-image-a-19_1547915187335.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Mohamed Salah's brace moved Liverpool seven points clear of Manchester City  in the Premier League title race as Julian Speroni's error saw Crystal Palace go  down 4-3 at Anfield.   Palace led thanks to Andros Townsend's first-half goal, but quickfire strikes  from Salah and Roberto Firmino turned the game around eight minutes into the  second half.    James Tomkins headed Palace level but an awful error by veteran goalkeeper  Speroni, tipping James Milner's cross towards his own goal for Salah to score  his 50th goal in the Premier League, gave Liverpool a lead that was later added  to by Sadio Mane.  Palace netted a stoppage-time consolation through Max Meyer  but Liverpool - who had Milner sent off for a second bookable offence late in  the second half - held on to stretch their cushion at the top, with Manchester  City away to managerless Huddersfield Town on Sunday.   Fabinho fired an early effort over Speroni's crossbar, the 39-year-old  goalkeeper becoming the oldest player to feature in the Premier League this  season.Joel Matip then headed a Milner corner narrowly wide as Liverpool pushed  for the opener, but it was Palace who took the lead in the 34th minute.   Townsend, who moments earlier survived a penalty appeal for handball, slammed  in a first-time finish after Wilfried Zaha beat makeshift right-back Milner far  too easily to send in a fizzing low cross.   But Liverpool were level within a minute of the restart, Salah pouncing from  close range with a deft close-range finish after Virgil van Dijk's speculative  drive deflected high into the air.   Within seven minutes Liverpool were in front after another stroke of fortune,  Naby Keita setting up Firmino for a shot that took a deflection to beat the  helpless Speroni.   Palace drew level in the 65th minute, however, as Tomkins took advantage of  slack marking to head home Luka Milivojevic's corner at the back post, but  Liverpool hit back again 10 minutes later.Speroni's misjudgment of a Milner  cross saw the ball again loop invitingly for Salah to finish from virtually on  the line.   Jeffrey Schlupp missed a great chance to score an equaliser for Palace and  Liverpool were reduced to 10 men after Milner was dismissed for a second yellow  card having tripped Zaha.But Liverpool's threat on the counter was maintained  and they made sure of the points in the third minute of added time when Mane cut  in from the left wing to beat Speroni.   There was still time for yet another goal, though, as substitute Meyer beat  Alisson from inside the box.</blockquote>

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