Liverpool surrender the title at Crystal Palace – in pictures

Luis Suarez sings to himself as he departs the Liverpool bus at Selhurst park. Despite concerns over feeling ill during the warm up, the Uruguayan striker starts the match Photograph: Tom Jenkins

Palace boss Tony Pulis chats with Brendan Rodgers. Surely one of these two will win manager of the season this year? Photograph: Tom Jenkins

Kayla the eagle makes her usual grand entrance Photograph: Tom Jenkins

Speaking of grand entrances, there's a nice tifo, constructed by the Palace faithful, to welcome the teams onto the pitch Photograph: Tom Jenkins

Liverpool fans are in fine voice and a confident mood ahead of kick-off Photograph: Tom Jenkins

Spurred on by the vocal support emanating from the stands the visitors surge forward from the kick-off, here Sakho makes an early, but unsuccessful, attempt on goal Photograph: Tom Jenkins

Marouane Chamakh and Sakho have a coming together early on in the first half Photograph: Tom Jenkins

And it's 0-1 to Liverpool after 18 minutes. A shocking piece of defending at a corner sees Joe Allen make a dash for the goalmouth completely unmarked and fire a header into the net Photograph: Tom Jenkins

A highly active Chamakh and goal scorer Joe Allen battle for the ball Photograph: Tom Jenkins

Mariappa jumps a sliding tackle from Steven Gerrard as underdogs Palace put up a spirited fight against Liverpool Photograph: Tom Jenkins

Julian Speroni dives and brilliantly claws away a long range effort from Sturridge Photograph: Tom Jenkins

Three minutes later Sturridge has better luck in front of goal when he doubled Liverpool's lead. He picked up Steven Gerrard long diagonal ball from deep then shuffled along the edge of the penalty area before unleashing a low drive ... Photograph: Tom Jenkins

That takes a deflection off a defender to take it past a despairing Julian Speroni into the net Photograph: Tom Jenkins

Just two minutes later and it's 0-3 to Liverpool – Suarez scored from a textbook one-two from Sturridge Photograph: Tom Jenkins

Suarez celebrates, and it looks like the game is all but sewn up for Liverpool Photograph: Tom Jenkins

A goal for Crystal Palace! Damien Delaney makes it 1-3. After leathering it goalward, a deflection off Johnson took the ball past what had previously been looking like an invincible Mignolet Photograph: Tom Jenkins

Unbelievable! Three minutes later and Gale brings the game back into Crystal Palace's reach! An attack by Yannick Bolasie down the left flank was covered by Glen Johnson, but Bolassie managed to square it to Dwight Gayle who puts it past Mignolet to bring Palace back into the match with under ten minutes left on the clock Photograph: Tom Jenkins

If that last goal was unbelievable, this one's hard to quantify – Gayle scores again in the 87th minute to bring Crystal Palace level! Photograph: Tom Jenkins

And the Palace crowd go wild. If Liverpool fail to score in the next three minutes, it's a disaster for Brendan Rogers' side Photograph: Tom Jenkins

They can't. The final whistle goes and Liverpool haven't come away with the win they both expected and needed. Thomas Ince consoles a crying Steven Gerrard Photograph: Tom Jenkins

Suarez is another Liverpool player who can't believe what's happened and collapses in tears. A now recovered Gerrard shoos away the TV cameras who focus in on the distraught player Photograph: Tom Jenkins

The fans are on the verge of tears, too Photograph: Tom Jenkins

Tony Pulis gives a lap of honour to the more than appreciative home fans Photograph: Tom Jenkins

And here are the aforementioned appreciative Palace fans celebrate an amazing comeback Photograph: Tom Jenkins

Their expressions contrast starkly with those of the Liverpool fans who sit dumbfounded at the turn of events late in the second half – the draw with an underdog team could have seriously derailed their hopes of winning their first title in 24 years. They now need Manchester City to lose one of their remaining fixtures if they are to have any hope of lifting the silverware Photograph: Tom Jenkins