Vitezslav Jaros was, first, a shock name on the Crystal Palace bench, then he arrived late to make an unexpected debut at Liverpool, earning praise from his head coach.
We’re only 10 games into the season, and yet we now have three different goalkeepers playing their part for Liverpool.
With Caoimhin Kelleher missing the trip to Selhurst Park due to illness, Jaros, 23, took his place on the bench for the fifth time this season – and that’s where he was supposed to stay.
Alisson was a Man of the Match contender until he clutched his hamstring and limped off the field, meaning Jaros had to step in for the final 15 minutes as Palace pressed for an equalizer .
It was an unexpected debut that ended with a save, three recoveries and almost an assist. It was a nod to the value of a third-choice goalie and validated Arne Slot and Co. to keep him.
“It was very good to see Caoimh ill yesterday, our third goalkeeper achieved this performance,” Slot told TNT Sports.
« [It’s] always nice for a team that everyone is involved in the results.
« [He handled it] really good. He had a very good season last season, he won the championship and the cup where he was [Sturm Graz] in Austria.
“We trust him a lot. He wanted to leave [back this season] because he wanted to have playing time again. We said that in a club like this, we also needed a very good third goalkeeper.
“Today proves we were right, and maybe for him it was a nice second time for him to make his Liverpool debut. »
Jaros has been on Liverpool’s books since 2017 and enjoyed a successful loan spell with Sturm Graz in the second half of last season, making 21 appearances to help win the Austrian Bundesliga.
He’s a valuable native player for the Reds, and we can expect to see more of him this season if Alisson’s injury is as serious as it appears to be.
The Brazilian has already missed two games with a hamstring injury, and after the match Virgil van Dijk admitted that “the injury doesn’t look good” and that “it looks like a hamstring injury.” hamstring that was already bothering him.”
Crystal Palace 0-1 Liverpool
