Wow. What a day! The game wasn’t all that thrilling, but Liverpool have been beaten at Villa Park for the first time in 13 years thanks to a superb strike from Stewart Downing and, with the other results today, we end up finishing in 9th place. A top half finish, on top of the Midlands once again despite our worst performance over 38 games for five years.
And… if that wasn’t enough, Birmingham City were relegated, initially thanks to hapless Wolves
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This is it then; the last game of the season. It might something of a dead rubber for us, although I’d like to think the players would be keen to finish the season on a high note. Liverpool fans will be hoping for a win at Villa Park and a loss for Tottenham at White Hart Lane. So, the exact opposite of us then.
Here are the confirmed starting line-ups:
Aston Villa
Liverpool
1
Brad Friedel
25
Pepe Reina
36
Kyle Walker
38
John Flanagan
29
James Collins
23
Jamie Carragher
5
Richard Dunne
37
Martin Skrtel
2
Luke Young
6
Fabio Aurelio
16
Fabian
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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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I’m probably not alone in feeling this loss a bit harder than the previous losses this season. I’m trying to put my finger on why and I can come up with little more than Liverpool probably deserved to take the three points the least out of the 5 teams who have beaten us so far this term. I don’t know, maybe it’s just the freshest wound since we probably should have got something from the Blackburn and West
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Absolutely heartbreaking. An injury time mistake sent Fernando Torres through clear on goal and he didn’t miss. That was all that separated the sides in the end.
It doesn’t matter than it was an even first half with the best chance falling to Stewart Downing.
It doesn’t matter that Villa were the only side to offer anything in the second half.
It doesn’t matter that MON made a really positive substitution when he brought Reo-Coker
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