Crystal Palace 0-2 Liverpool: James Milner penalty and Sadio Mane clincher help Jurgen Klopp's men battle past 10-man Eagles and keep up 100 per cent start to the new Premier League season.
Stats geeks will have predicted the outcome here shortly before half-time when Liverpool scored. They may only have led by a single goal at that point, but it had gone in from the penalty spot courtesy of James Milner. Nerds know what happens when Milner scores in the Premier League. His team do not lose. Not once. Not ever.
Milner has found the net 49 times in the Premier League, across 48 games and 16 years. The end result: 38 wins and 10 draws. So full credit to Crystal Palace for trying their damnedest to battle the inevitable, but history favoured three points for Liverpool from that moment and history was not to be contradicted.
The home fans felt hard done by over the penalty and berated the man who won it, Mohamed Salah, until the bitter end, but they did not have a case. The penalty was a penalty, the sending-off for Aaron Wan-Bissaka over a separate incident was a red card and Liverpool's late second goal provided a scoreline that pretty much reflected the difference between the teams.
