"That's our best win against them. We've owed them that for a little while," said Lewis Dunk after his 23rd meeting with Palace. Brighton are on their best ever Premier League start, six games in. Fabian Hürzeler: "We have to stay very humble. The season will be long."
Brighton & Hove Albion at Liverpool
What they've said
Brighton & Hove Albion
Everything said since their last game, v C Palace on 18 Oct.
Liverpool
Everything said since their last game, v Brentford on 17 Oct.
Dominik Szoboszlai did not worsen his injury playing through it against Brentford, Andoni Iraola said, but he misses Liverpool's Champions League game against Villarreal: "probably we have to be a little bit more patient." Ryan Gravenberch is back.
"Maybe it's not the one you are thinking": Andoni Iraola hinted at changes to Liverpool's starting XI against Villarreal in the Champions League because "some players are not fresh enough" after Brentford, which he called their most demanding game for running.
"I'm not going to deny that I feel more comfortable playing as a centre-back," Ronald Araujo said, but he will give everything at right-back for Liverpool. Andoni Iraola raised the role in their first conversation. A permanent move? "A bit early," Araujo said.
Jeremie Frimpong misses Liverpool's Champions League game against Villarreal with a new injury Andoni Iraola called "massive", picked up two or three minutes after coming on. A return before the international break? "We will try, but it's going to be difficult."
Yehor Yarmoliuk and Vitaly Janelt, sent off in the 2-1 defeat to Liverpool, are suspended. Brentford head coach Keith Andrews: "Yarmo needs to do better, so I can understand why it was a red." Janelt's second yellow? "Could there have been a bit more common sense? I think so."
Liverpool arrived late from a Champions League away game two days before the Brentford win, with no proper recovery. Andoni Iraola was left "in doubt between the players that have already started two games and are very tired, or the players that are recovering from injuries."
Liverpool will lose Jeremie Frimpong and Dominik Szoboszlai "for some time", Andoni Iraola said. Frimpong had ended the last game cramping, but against 10 men Iraola picked him over Ronald Araujo: "he could give us more." Szoboszlai's injury was probably not healed enough.