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		</div><p>Jurgen Klopp remains unconcerned about Liverpool&#8217;s defensive lapses, despite them leading to Crystal Palace&#8217;s two goals in their 4-2 victory at Selhurst Park.</p>
<p>The German also refused to say his team could win the Premier League title if they eradicate those errors.</p>
<p>After an unexpectedly strong start to the season continued with today&#8217;s victory &#8211; courtesy of finishes from Emre Can, Dejan Lovren, Joel Matip and Roberto Firmino &#8211; and only goal difference is keeping Liverpool from first place.</p>
<p>Their total of 23 points is the same as Manchester City and Arsenal, but only one team in the division&#8217;s top 10 has conceded more than their 13 goals, the latest two of which were headers from Palace&#8217;s James McArthur after more unconvincing defending.</p>
<p>The concession of too many goals cost Liverpool the title under Klopp&#8217;s predecessor Brendan Rodgers in 2014, and also undermined their pursuit of silverware under Roy Evans in the 1990s.</p>
<p>Klopp&#8217;s team are similarly impressive in the attacking third, but told a stronger defence would make them title defenders, he responded: <i>&#8220;We will sort the defence: what then happens, we will see.</p>
<p>&#8220;They can defend really well; it&#8217;s normal (to have lapses). I know that everybody will talk about this, but&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t go in the dressing room and say &#8216;You&#8217;re a really bad defender, and you are the goalkeeper, where are you?&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;They are all human beings, we work on it. I am completely convinced about the quality. If they make mistakes and stay in the game then, it&#8217;s a very good test for them, and they stood it again.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was happy with the reaction (to conceding). Not with the situation, not with the style of the game, that&#8217;s what we have to work on, but I&#8217;m happy with the reaction.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll work on it and we will see where it leads.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Palace manager Alan Pardew surprisingly named £13million summer signing Andros Townsend as a substitute. He revealed afterwards he did so because the winger had asked to be re-positioned from the left wing to the right, and also that he considered Liverpool to be title contenders.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;(Townsend) wants to play on the right-hand side,&#8221;</i> he said. <i>&#8220;Wilf (Zaha) was terrific, it&#8217;s a tough decision. We&#8217;re missing (Pape) Soare on the left. I&#8217;m not going to say it isn&#8217;t a problem.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know about winning the league but they are certainly going to be close. The two centre-halves were terrific even if they made a mistake. That&#8217;s an area they are not so strong, but played well.</p>
<p>&#8220;We were a bit too open against a side as good as they are; some brilliant technical play at times.</p>
<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t start as we would have liked, as much pressure, we were defending in the last third. To concede from two set plays in unusual for us; that is something we need to address.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Pardew also questioned the decision to appoint Andre Marriner as referee.</p>
<p>Marriner awarded Liverpool a contentious last-minute penalty in the same fixture last season, which was converted by striker Christian Benteke &#8211; who has since moved between the two clubs &#8211; to give the Reds a 2-1 success.</p>
<p>The official was booed by sections of the Selhurst Park crowd during Saturday&#8217;s game and Pardew was also frustrated Marriner turned down three penalty appeals from the Eagles.</p>
<p>Pardew told BT Sport: <i>&#8220;It was too open at times for us and we gifted possession a little bit too much to Liverpool.</p>
<p>&#8220;But there were still some decisions that went against us today. I don&#8217;t think Andre Marriner should have reffed this game. He gives the penalty last year so we&#8217;ve got a negative in our mind anyway.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why was Mike Riley (manager of the Professional Game Match Officials) giving him the game today? I can&#8217;t understand it.</p>
<p>&#8220;And then we get three penalty calls, okay they are tight but they are probably no worse than Christian&#8217;s last year so it&#8217;s just a little bit frustrating that part.&#8221;</i></p>
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