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Crystal Palace knock a very young Liverpool side out of the competition at Anfield.

Does this add to the crisis? Did Arna's slot pick such an inexperienced team and bench so that it wouldn't matter if they lost? Palace's prize is a trip to the Emirates in the quarterfinal. After Arsenal rode their luck early on before beating Brighton, another clean sheet for Mikhail Artetta. Chelsea winner not quite classic 4-3 at Wolves, while Holders Newcast will comfortably see off Spurs. Thomas Frank's next job is to get spurs up for Chelsea at home in a game they routinely lose. Elsewhere, Mad City Bournemouth looks interesting, as does Forest, Manchester United and Liverpool Villa. Ewan Murray joins us to discuss the Celtic madness and we'll discuss whether there should be a countdown clock for long throws. We've had excellent correspondence, including some divorced Belgian adjacent stuff.

As always, we'll answer your questions.

And that's today's Guardian Football Week cleave.

On the panel today, Barry Glendanning, welcome.

Hi, Max.

Hello, Jordan Jarrett Brian.

Morning, mate. And good morning to Robin, welcome. Hi, Max. Hello, Jordan Jarrett-Bryan. Morning, mate.

And good morning to Robin Cowan.

Morning, Max. Okay, the quarter final draw. Then Newcastle will pay Fulham, Manchester City, Brentford, Cardiff City, Chelsea and Arsenal, Crystal Palace. Only one place to start, which is at Anfield. Steve says, as a Liverpool fan, I made the decision to watch last night's Bake Off instead.

Trader starts in a minute. Was this a better use of my time? Or should I have jumped out the window? He says, Toddy says, should Liverpool sign Ismail a Saar just to stop him scoring against them? Seven in nine for Saar against Liverpool, for Palace and for Watford. And I suppose we should start Robin by praising Crystal Palace. I mean, third time in a row they've beaten Liverpool, if you include the Community Shield, which I guess we can. Saar's second was a beautiful goal. That won two with Jeremy Pino, who looks like a really good player. And Palace hadn't been on great form either. But clearly, as soon you saw the starting lineups, you were like, they'll probably win. Yeah, I mean, I think we need to, we should credit Palace because even though, yes, you know, Liverpool obviously rotated a lot and didn't really have any big names on the bench either. They still had to get the job done. It's still a landfill. And they dispatched them really well.

They also made quite a lot of changes as well, Crystal Palace.

But actually, it's just a show of... They don't have amazing depth in sort of Premier League terms. But still, you know, you had Will Hughes coming in. He hasn't played much this season. You know, he's a very, very good midfielder. Soza as well. So actually, you know, they're just a very, very well-coached team.

And clearly they,

I mean, Liverpool kind of had a couple of chances early on, didn't they? But then it just seems to be,

they concede and then they, they kind of, I wouldn't say fall apart. That might be a bit too

dramatic, but they, they kind of floodgates open

and they just seem to be a bit soft at the moment. Again, with the massive caveat that they

clearly change the team a lot. And yeah, the discourse around this is very interesting, isn't it?

And I think, yeah, you said your intro, did it on purpose? And I'm just thinking, if he did, then fine, you know. Is that a bad thing? Because actually, if they'd put out the strong team and they lost, that possibly would have caused more damage. Sure. And I suppose no guarantees that had they put out their first team, they'd have won this game, given the form that they're on with apologies to palace

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