Florian Wirtz Scores His First League Goal as Liverpool Win at Palace

Florian Wirtz finally has his first league goal of the season, and he picked a good afternoon to collect the rest of the set. Wirtz scored Liverpool’s second and made their third in a 3–1 win at Crystal Palace on Sunday, a result that lifted Liverpool up to fourth in the Premier League and kept Palace in the bottom three.

The match was Liverpool’s tenth league outing of the season and Palace’s tenth as well — Matchday 10 at Selhurst Park, on Sunday, November 8, 2026. For forty minutes it stayed scoreless. The first goal, when it came five minutes before half-time, came from a set piece.

Dominik Szoboszlai delivered the ball, and Alexis Mac Allister headed it in at the centre of the box to put Liverpool 1–0 up at the break. Palace went in scoreless; Liverpool went in ahead on the game’s first goal, scored by their No. 10 from their No. 8’s delivery.

Nine minutes after the restart, the lead doubled — and the day’s real story arrived with it. Bradley Barcola crossed, and Florian Wirtz swept the ball into the bottom left corner from the centre of the box. Fifty-four minutes in, Liverpool were 2–0 up, and Wirtz had the goal he had been waiting on since the season started: his first in the league this season, on the tenth matchday, in November.

The number is the story of his season in one line: ten matchdays into the league campaign, Wirtz’s goals column finally moved off zero. And it was not a garnish goal in a rout — it doubled a 1–0 lead, away from home, with the afternoon still in the balance when Barcola’s cross reached him.

Wirtz was not finished. In the 89th minute, on the counter, he laid the ball off for Alexander Isak, who finished from the centre of the box to make it 3–0. Goal in the 54th minute, assist in the 89th: the complete forward’s afternoon, on the day the first one finally landed.

Palace’s reply came too late to be anything but arithmetic. Five minutes into stoppage time, with the game already gone, Eddie Nketiah converted a penalty — the last action of the match. It put Palace on the scoresheet and changed nothing else: not the points, not the table, not the story of the afternoon.

For Palace, the afternoon offered one penalty and little else on the scoresheet. Goalless in the first half, two down by the 54th minute and three down by the 89th, they stay in the bottom three with seven defeats from their ten league games — and the one goal they did get arrived after the result had already been settled, from the penalty spot, in the fifth minute of added time.

The table reads plainly off the back of it. Liverpool’s win — their fifth of the league season against three draws and two defeats — takes them up to fourth. Palace stay in the bottom three, their record now two wins, one draw and seven defeats from ten. Liverpool scored in both halves and had a different scorer for each goal: a header from a set piece, a swept finish from a cross, and a counter-attacking third laid on by the man who had scored the second.

Away wins in this league are rarely tidy, and this one was not sealed until the 89th minute — but Liverpool led from the 40th minute onward and were never behind at any point in the match. Palace’s only goal came after the 90 minutes had expired.

Every goal from Selhurst Park lives on the match’s Game Center page, and the rest of the league is on the Premier League hub.