ReactionCrystal Palace 2-1 Liverpool: Arne Slot's post-match press conference

Eddie Nketiah's goal with virtually the last kick of the game secured victory for the hosts on Saturday afternoon, ending the champions' perfect start to the defence of their title.

The Reds thought they had rescued a point through substitute Federico Chiesa's 87th-minute equaliser, which cancelled out the early opener from Ismaila Sarr.

See what Slot had to say to reporters post-match…

• Read our match report from Selhurst Park

On his assessment of the result and the performance…

A disappointing first half and a disappointing end of the game. Again, once again, credit to Palace because, one of them was the Community Shield, but it's not the first time we lose against them, although the first time was on penalties. We have played each other four times since I'm here – we have both won once, twice it was a draw, although the penalties they won. It tells you how difficult it is for us – but not only for us, for every team in the league – to beat them. That's what we could see today.

They deserved to be up two or three goals in the first half; created three, four very good chances and we were lucky that Alisson [Becker] helped us. I think the second half was a much better performance from us. We created chances, which not many teams do here or if Palace play away. It's very hard to create a chance. We created quite a lot. It took a while for us to score a goal. And when we did, [there was] limited time to play. And to concede another set-piece goal is then as disappointing as our first half was.

On whether he was 'going for the win' at 1-1…

We had a lot of attacking players in our line-up at that moment of time, but I don't think many things happened in the extra time. It was, by the way, the extra time of the extra time when we conceded, which I think was fair because they made a substitution so then you add half a minute extra. I don't know exactly when they scored but I assume that was between 96 and 96:30. Then we can only blame ourselves by defending it the way we did. One of our players decided to run out because he wanted to play a counter-attack, which was of no use because time was up so it was only about defending. Maybe we were too offensively minded. Not we, one player, was too offensively minded in that moment, which led to them scoring the winner, us losing the game.

On conceding two goals from set-pieces and if it is a concern going forward…

No, against Newcastle we conceded two set-pieces and they were the only two chances they might have had in that game. Today, they had more than only two set-piece goals. They didn't score more, but they had chances from open play, from transition. So, there were more things not to like today than only defending set-pieces. The good thing was that in the other moments Alisson saved us.

Palace have a few threats. Set-pieces are one of them but counter-attacks and balls in behind are number two and three, and from all these situations they've created a lot of chances. What I said, we were able to create quite a lot against a Palace team which hardly ever concedes a chance, but when you look at the first half they totally deserved to win. In the second half I think it was a much better performance from us. If one team deserved to win today, I think it was Palace.

On Alexander Isak's performance and him playing 84 minutes...

That had a lot to do with the low intensity of the game. If you face a low block, 10 players in and around their own 18-yard box, when they have to do build-up the goalkeeper takes a little bit of time before he kicks it long, then there's hardly any intensity in the game. So in a more open game where both teams want to press high and want to do build-up and you have to run a lot as a nine to press the other team, then you might not play him for 84.

But in a game like this – which was low-tempo, I think I can say that, with some bursts of counter-attacks from them – then your No.9 is mainly not so involved. He was close to a goal. He was very honest to stay on his feet – he got a little bit of a shirt pull and that's why he was unbalanced when he had to shoot and that maybe was just enough, [a] smart little push to get him unbalanced. But he came closer and closer to a goal, but in the end he didn't score. Quite a good performance from him.

On bringing on Cody Gakpo at the start of the second half...

We wanted to overload the midfield with Florian Wirtz in the first half – that's why we didn't start with Cody. But if you're 1-0 down and you need a goal, you prefer to have width on both sides – and that's why we brought Cody in. And later on we kept on bringing in offensive players that can score goals, taking the risk because you're already 1-0 down. And again, we scored – deserved is maybe not to say. But if you base only on the second half and the chances we had – because we were just discussing Isak, Florian Wirtz had a very big chance as well – we were closer and closer to scoring a goal. That was the reason to bring Cody in, because the way we played the first half wasn't as I was hoping for before the game.