There was a conspiracy theory that Liverpool deliberately “pushed down” the 2025 Super Cup to Crystal Palace. They do so to avoid the “bowl” that cannot be crowned in the English Premier League as the defending champion team Community Shield.
On Wembley on Sunday night, the defending champion of the Premier League Liverpool was subdued by Crystal Palace, through which The Reds lost the title of Super Cup. It was a strange defeat of the Anfield team. The students of coach Arne Slot twice led the table twice, but then all the opponents equalized. And then in a penalty shootout, Liverpool lost 2-3, on the day goalkeeper Dean Henderson became the hero of Crystal Palace with two successful penalties.
It is impossible to find the reason for Liverpool's failure, except for the reason that the British media gave: Mr. Arne Slot's teachers and students … deliberately lost. This ability is not without basis. According to statistics, 13 of the 14 teams won the recent Community Shield could not win the Premier League at the end of the season. This also explains why even in a very strong stage, Man City – the Premier League dominated team for nearly a decade – still often lost when the Super Cup. To see that scary “scary”, look back on the recent Super Cup matches.
In 2024, Man City overcame the “enemy of life” MU in a penalty shootout to win the championship. As a result, at the end of the 2024/25 season, they finished in 3rd place in the Premier League rankings. In 2023, Arsenal was a team that won Community Shield, after defeating teachers and coach Pep Guardiola. As a result, in the Premier League 2023/24, they still only go home … And in 2022, Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool defeated Man City 3-1 in the opening match for the 2022/23 season. But after the end, the green man was the one who acquired all titles with the historic “treble” …
Liverpool's ambition in the upcoming season is huge. They not only decided to successfully defend the Premier League championship, but also wanted to conquer the Champions League dream. This explains why the UK port city team has been so strong in the summer transfer window this year. Up to now, they have poured nearly 300 million euros into the transfer market to consolidate the squad, notably the “blockbuster” contracts such as Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Jeremie Frimpong … Before such an ambitious season, Liverpool “has a sacred worship” is also easy to understand.
To be fair, defeat against Crystal Palace is not completely meaningless to Liverpool. It helped the defending championship team to learn from the bloody lesson. In particular, the prominent issue of The Reds is a distraction defense, which leads to continuously for Crystal Palace to level the gap in Wembley. Certainly in the short time of the remaining summer of 2025, coach Arne Slot still has a lot of work to do to complete the defensive system of the Anfield team.
Liverpool's positive harvest after the Community Shield match is the good integration of the rookies. This is the match that Arne Slot has launched the starting lineup with 3 players who have just wet their feet to join Anfield including Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike and Jeremie Frimpong. All 3 players shone. Wirtz is the person who directly created for Ekitike to open the score for Liverpool. While Frimpong set up a super product to help The Reds pass the Crystal Palace 2-1. If it wasn't for that Slot's team took the initiative to stone at the beginning of the second half, Liverpool's rookies could have quickly had their first battle.
Failure in the penalty shootout at Community Shield closed a memorable summer of Liverpool. Coach and coach Arne Slot was ready to enter the campaign to protect the Premier League championship with the opening match with Bournemouth at Anfield on the morning of August 16.
