Liverpool vs Crystal Palace live: Devenny the hero for Palace as Community Shield thriller settled on penalties
Crystal Palace 2-2 Liverpool (3-2 pens.): The FA Cup winners upset the Premier League champions in a shootout at Wembley
FA Cup winners Crystal Palace beat Premier League champions Liverpool 3-2 on penalties to win the Community Shield after an entertaining 2-2 draw at Wembley.
Substitute Justin Devenny scored the winning spot kick to give Palace the spoils, after Mohamed Salah, Alexis Mac Allister and Harvey Elliott missed for the Reds.
New recruit Hugo Ekitike had put Liverpool ahead inside four minutes before Jean-Philippe Mateta levelled from the penalty spot in the 17th for Palace after Virgil van Dijk brought down Ismaila Sarr.
Close-season signing Jeremie Frimpong restored the Reds' lead, as Liverpool fans marked the death of Portugal forward Diogo Jota with 20 minutes on the clock, sending an attempted cross looping in off the post.
But Palace equalised again with 13 minutes to play, Sarr slotting past onrushing goalkeeper Alisson to send the traditional season curtain-raiser to penalties.
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Match summary
FA Cup winners Crystal Palace beat Premier League champions Liverpool 3-2 on penalties to win the Community Shield after an entertaining 2-2 draw at Wembley on Sunday.
Substitute Justin Devenny scored the winning spot kick to give Palace the spoils, after Mohamed Salah, Alexis Mac Allister and Harvey Elliott missed for the Reds.
New recruit Hugo Ekitike had put Liverpool ahead inside four minutes before Jean-Philippe Mateta levelled from the penalty spot in the 17th for Palace after Virgil van Dijk brought down Ismaila Sarr.
Close-season signing Jeremie Frimpong restored the Reds' lead, as Liverpool fans marked the death of Portugal forward Diogo Jota with 20 minutes on the clock, sending an attempted cross looping in off the post.
But Palace equalised again with 13 minutes to play, Sarr slotting past onrushing goalkeeper Alisson to send the traditional season curtain-raiser to penalties.
Oliver Glasner speaks
“I told the players [at half-time] to keep calm, I was proud of how they played. They were unlucky with the second goal. I knew if we stuck to the plan then we would get our chances and we always know if we take them we will win the game.”
On the shootout: “Justin [Devenny] came to me and said ‘I’ll take it, I’ll take the last one’. I like him having this confidence and the determination to win us the game, he will play many minutes for us this season.”
Oliver Glasner speaks!
The Crystal Palace manager tells TNT Sports: “I have to give big credit to the players for this win today, we came back and were able to decide the game on penalties. We were on the same level as Liverpool and it was a big performance, I'm proud of the team.
“We know what we can do and how we can create chances. Things have developed over 18 months and the players are really starting to believe in what we are doing. I knew we could score at least two goals.”
Palace exploit lavish Liverpool's flaws at Wembley
Here’s Richard Jolly’s report from Wembley:
Glad all over again. For the second time in a summer, Crystal Palace came to Wembley, fearlessly took on one of the superpowers and made off with silverware, aided by Dean Henderson’s excellence at saving penalties. It was not even the best day of their 2025, given their FA Cup triumph over Manchester City, but, if they are consigned to the Conference League by Uefa, European football’s governing body may note that Oliver Glasner’s trophy-gathering habit might mean they win it.
As they claimed their latest prize, Palace supplied a reminder that money cannot buy everything. A side shorn of signings in their starting XI beat one furnished with four expensive arrivals. For a while it seemed as though Hugo Ekitike would be the match-winner on his competitive Liverpool debut, then that Jeremie Frimpong would. Instead, the decisive kick of the ball came from the unheralded Justin Devenny. Formerly of Airdrie, perhaps only sent on because Marc Guehi had cramp, the Northern Ireland international midfielder almost delivered a 95th-minute winner, then converted the winning penalty in the shootout.
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Palace double up at Wembley
Ally McCoist on TNT Sports: “If you'd have said to the Crystal Palace fans a year ago that they'd win two trophies at Wembley in the next 12 months... I think they definitely would have taken that.”
'Henderson is top class'
“Dean Henderson wanted to be the number one at Manchester United,” said former Palace striker Glenn Murray on Radio 5 Live.
“He left them to go and be that at Crystal Palace and he is showing that he is a really top-class goalkeeper.”
Video: Devenny's trophy-winning penalty
That winning moment – what courage from Justin Devenny to look Alisson Becker in the eyes and then place it into the top corner.
Palace lift the Community Shield
Palace players file up the stairs to receive their prize. Marc Guehi raises the Community Shield aloft a little sheepishly, without quite the same gusto as the FA Cup, and Glad All Over blares out once more.
Crystal Palace win the Community Shield
Up the steps Oliver Glasner leads the Crystal Palace players. They’ll find out their European fate tomorrow, of course, but there is plenty of reason to celebrate tonight after another successful Wembley day.
The FA Cup may have meant much, much more, but this club knows how hard silverware can be to earn.
Palace fans are staying to party
Lawrence Ostlere at Wembley:
“Liverpool fans streamed out as soon as the ball hit the net, and most of them had gone by the time ‘Glad All Over’ began playing out across the stadium. Palace fans are not moving an inch from their seats as the trophy presentation is prepared on the pitch.”
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