Liverpool 3 Aston Villa 0 – Dismal performance from front to back

It started badly; the first five minutes littered with silly errors, soft free kicks and comical defending at set pieces, and it went down hill from there really.

Ngog opened the scoring in the 14th minute with an unchallenged diving header to send Skrtel’s knock down in, the corner coming from a typically poor piece of play from Stephen Warnock. Warnock was done for pace by Ngog, albeit blatantly offside, two minutes later and the Frenchman made no mistake with

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Houllier and McAllister head back to Anfield together

We were in 16th place when we travelled to Anfield last year amidst much doom and gloom and yet we came away with all three points after a hugely satisfying 3-1 victory. We return to Liverpool on Monday night once again in 16th place, and Liverpool in 11th to their 10th last time, but this time Villa have 15 league games behind them, not one.

We haven’t occupied this lowly a league position at this time of year since we

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Statshack – Aston Villa 0 Liverpool 1

For some reason or another I neglected to create a Statshack for the 3-1 victory over Liverpool at Anfield, so I’ll take the rare step here of including it below the stats from last night’s 1-0 loss at Villa Park. It might be interesting to compare the two.

0
Aston Villa
Dec 29th 2009
Liverpool
1

42
Possession %
58

9
Shots
15

4
On Target
4

8
Corners
10

0
Offsides
1

Scorers
93′ Torres

Dunne
Booked
Lucas

Sent Off

214
Good Passes
325

60
Bad Passes
81

35
Interceptions
18

36
Tackles Won
37

21
Tackles Lost
29

7
Blocks
1

12
Free Kicks
13

Starting XI:
1. Friedel
2. Young
25. Warnock

24. Cuellar
5. Dunne
19. Petrov
20. Reo-Coker

8. Milner
6. Downing
10. Carew
11. Agbonlahor

Subs:
22. Guzan
14. Delfouneso
4. Sidwell

12. Albrighton
29. Collins
23. Beye
16. Delph

Average

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Liverpool vs Aston Villa Wallpaper

You probably enjoyed Aston Villa’s 3-1 victory over Liverpool at Anfield this week. Would I be mistaken in assuming that you might like a reminder right on your desktop? I do, so here’s a desktop wallpaper available in the usual 1280×1024, 1280×800 and 1024×768 sizes:-

I also found a couple of basic wallpapers that I hadn’t uploaded, so you’ll now find a page for Steve Sidwell and Nigel Reo-Coker.

Aston Villa Deliver At Anfield

Firstly, Liverpool were below par, but take nothing away from Aston Villa, they truly delivered on their promises tonight at Anfield. This was a demonstration in grit, determination, spirit and skill and proved the detractors wrong.

However, football matches can so often pivot on a single incident and had Benayoun nodded in his first minute effort, it’s difficult to believe a Villa side so lacking in confidence would have pulled the game back. It sailed wide though and Villa

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Liverpool 1 Aston Villa 3

Full review to follow, but for now just know that Villa were very worthy winners tonight at Anfield and will hopefully take a lot of confidence to kick start the season now. True grit and determination all around the pitch, can’t fault a single player.

For now, I’m going to enjoy the cries of woe on Twitter and I’ll paste the best ones here during the course of the evening. Enjoy…

There’s actually way too many to keep up with

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Liverpool vs Aston Villa

Never an easy fixture, but there sure could be better times to head up to Anfield. Avoiding a repeat of the last scoreline up there might well seem like a result in itself, but it would take that very scoreline to send Villa to the foot of the Premiership.

But who wants to get swallowed up in such a defeatist attitude? Our run of poor form will come to an end and Burnley have admirably demonstrated that every team

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What Being A Supporter Is About

I pointed out in the preview for the Rapid Vienna game that the Austrian side weren’t having the best of starts to their domestic season either. You’d never have known that from the quality of the support the team received from the home fans throughout the game.

I made a couple of comments on Twitter about the Villans facing such a hostile crowd and half-joked about them having to face another one for the second leg at Villa Park.

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