Liverpool v Aston Villa 16:00 Sunday Match Thread

Xavi6

Karma is a wonderful thing for Villa after they made a mockery of the Uefa.

5starpool

Harsh red card indeed.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Im_No_Superman wrote: »

A small bit of good news for United fans, Friedel will miss the United game after the international break.

Unless they appeal it

Helix

Im_No_Superman wrote: »

A small bit of good news for United fans, Friedel will miss the United game after the international break.

to be fair its not really that good

hes been pretty dodgy of late, guzan is capable of doing a job anyway

Savman

Xavi6 wrote: »

Karma is a wonderful thing for Villa after they made a mockery of the Uefa.

QFT.

~Marky~

Even Lucas nearly scored :eek:

Bounty Hunter

The Villa playerss wanna be back in Dubai

monkey9

Helix wrote: »

to be fair its not really that good

hes been pretty dodgy of late, guzan is capable of doing a job anyway

Was gonna say, what's Guzan like? Is he decent??

Thanx 4 The Fish

Lovely bit of skill by Rieira there.

And now Skrtl is getting in in the act.

Savman

monkey9 wrote: »

Was gonna say, what's Guzan like? Is he decent??

Bit shakey tbh. Will be intimidated in OT methinks.

x in the city

lol @ Villa, their luck has well and truly run out.

And Man U next week...

As for Pool, are they on steroids the last few weeks...

monkey9

Riera is Man of the Match for me

Thanx 4 The Fish

Think I will sue the company I am working for for emotianal distress after making me work and miss this game

Helix

monkey9 wrote: »

Was gonna say, what's Guzan like? Is he decent??

hes decent, just doesnt shout at the defence enough

hes capable of stepping up

Bounty Hunter

x in the city wrote: »

lol @ Villa, their luck has well and truly run out.

And Man U next week...

As for Pool, are they on steroids the last few weeks...

is there an echo in here?

Brad Snr's record of consecutive games now gonna end too

attack attack attack attack attack

Daemonic

x in the city wrote: »

lol @ Villa, their luck has well and truly run out.

And Man U next week...

As for Pool, are they on steroids the last few weeks...

Nope, just rested and raring to go at the end of the season thanks to Rafa's rotation policy :P

Savman

x in the city wrote: »

lol @ Villa, their luck has well and truly run out.

That's the thing about luck, it always runs out.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, nice to hear the Villa fans chanting.

Dcully

Daemonic wrote: »

Nope, just rested and raring to go at the end of the season thanks to Rafa's rotation policy :P

HAHA classic

Bounty Hunter

it is nice to here the real Villa fans chanting now

monkey9

Great to see Danny Agger back

x in the city

Savman wrote: »

QFT.

Villa are far too big a club for the UEFA Cup...:D

Helix

12 minutes left, we can still get a point out of this i reckon

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Just come in and looked at the score . Has Torres not scored yet? Feckin' waster. Drop him.

PHB

I don't think I've ever enjoyed watching one of Benetiz's team this much, absolutely outstanding football from Liverpool today. Reira looks today as if he is in the class of Gerrard and Torres

invincibleirish

Here comes Gardner!

and theres the yellow right on time

Mikeyt086

PHB wrote: »

I don't think I've ever enjoyed watching one of Benetiz's team this much, absolutely outstanding football from Liverpool today. Reira looks today as if he is in the class of Gerrard and Torres

Agreed.

Who let Riera drink from Gerrard and Torres water before the game?

Dcully

Mikeyt086 wrote: »

Agreed.

Who let Riera drink from Gerrard and Torres water before the game?

If only he done so more often, he has been crap the past 2 months before today after a great initial few months.
Looked excellent today again.

Bounty Hunter

fckin ell ive had enough the stream i was watching just put youll never walk alone playing over injury time, i like liverpool and the song but no Villa fan is going to sit through that at 5-0 with the game still playing

elshambo

The stream im watching is playing a pretty dire version of

You'll Never Walk Alone

at full blast:o

*video now!!! looks like really cheap karokie mucka

Xavi6

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

fckin ell ive had enough the stream i was watching just put youll never walk alone playing over injury time, i like liverpool and the song but no Villa fan is going to sit through that at 5-0 with the game still playing

Turn the sound down?

Helix

invincibleirish wrote: »

Here comes Gardner!

and theres the yellow right on time

hahaha

hes great isnt he

you can set your watch by the chap

HashSlinging

.....unreal game. We are back what a goal from Riera OMG ! awesome LFC display.

Its official, its not a joke, we are destroying top teams in the prem... !!!!!!!

Jazzy

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

fckin ell ive had enough the stream i was watching just put youll never walk alone playing over injury time, i like liverpool and the song but no Villa fan is going to sit through that at 5-0 with the game still playing

my guess is that its a liverpool fan running it. at the end of the utd game he had a little montage made up saying "if you support utd you are a loser" while YNWA was playing.

jesus_thats_gre

Helix wrote: »

coz he never does, and is tactically inept

on 60-65 mins he'll make a bizarre substitution tho

wait and see

Harsh in fairness..

Helix

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

Harsh in fairness..

what was harsh about it exactly?

Headshot

HashSlinging wrote: »

.....unreal game. We are back what a goal from Riera OMG ! awesome LFC display.

Its official, its not a joke, we are destroying top teams in the prem... !!!!!!!

1 win in 7 isnt a top team

but I have to give credit where credit is due liverpool are causing me to sweat

going to be some finish to the league and im kinda looking forward to it

PHB

International break will be annoying for Benetiz. If we had to play PL games on Wednesday I'd imagine he'd be much happier to keep the momentum going.

What I think the most interesting thing of all will be that when we gets back, there will be 4 games in a row. 2 PL 2 CL. Fulham @ H and Blackburn @ A.
Will he rest players for Chelsea in those games?

jesus_thats_gre

Helix wrote: »

what was harsh about it exactly?

Nevermind...



Anyway, great result for Liverpool!!!

cooker3

I think the red card was a perfectly fine decision. The decision point for me is if you give the peno or not but if you accept if it's a penalty then I don't see what else the ref can do but to send him off. Torres would clearly score if Friedel didn't contact him.

5starpool

PHB wrote: »

International break will be annoying for Benetiz. If we had to play PL games on Wednesday I'd imagine he'd be much happier to keep the momentum going.

What I think the most interesting thing of all will be that when we gets back, there will be 4 games in a row. 2 PL 2 CL. Fulham @ H and Blackburn @ A.
Will he rest players for Chelsea in those games?

He'll possibly bring in the likes of Agger/Babel/Insua/Benayoun, but I'm not sure if that qualifies as resting players. If Alonso/Gerrard/Torres don't start when there is not fitness concern then it is resting. I think all the above have good cases for inclusion (Babel less than the others perhaps) and should not weaken things too much.

sailorfoley

cooker3 wrote: »

I think the red card was a perfectly fine decision. The decision point for me is if you give the peno or not but if you accept if it's a penalty then I don't see what else the ref can do but to send him off. Torres would clearly score if Friedel didn't contact him.

harsh or not i think it's a bad decision for us. The game was won and now villa lose their 'keeper for their next game which is against man utd.

kingshankly

cooker3 wrote: »

I think the red card was a perfectly fine decision. The decision point for me is if you give the peno or not but if you accept if it's a penalty then I don't see what else the ref can do but to send him off. Torres would clearly score if Friedel didn't contact him.

thought it was a peno but a terrible decision to send him off .
you can clearly see him making himself small by taking his arms in as to avoid torres who in turn ran in to him .
what is he expected to do lie down. ref should use common sense but the problem with common sense is its not very common

Bounty Hunter

kingshankly wrote: »

thought it was a peno but a terrible decision to send him off .
you can clearly see him making himself small by taking his arms in as to avoid torres who in turn ran in to him .
what is he expected to do lie down. ref should use common sense but the problem with common sense is its not very common

this is exactley how i saw it and at the time thought pen but harsh red but in retrospect why was it a pen at all? Torres pushes it past Friedel who was coming out, the keeper turned his body away from torres so as not to foul/impede him as the ball was already past him and he didnt want to give away a pen, then Torres ran into him.

certain goal if Friedel hadnt of touched Torres i suppose but for me it was more the Striker hitting into the keeper

jesus_thats_gre

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

this is exactley how i saw it and at the time thought pen but harsh red but in retrospect why was it a pen at all? Torres pushes it past Friedel who was coming out, the keeper turned his body away from torres so as not to foul/impede him as the ball was already past him and he didnt want to give away a pen, then Torres ran into him.

certain goal if Friedel hadnt of touched Torres i suppose but for me it was more the Striker hitting into the keeper

The sending off was completely wrong in my opinon but I can certainly see why it was given as a penalty..

Bounty Hunter

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

The sending off was completely wrong in my opinon but I can certainly see why it was given as a penalty..

true id have considerd Villa v lucky if it wasnt awarded and one thing you couldent call Villa today was lucky

LuckyLloyd

Theresalwaysone wrote: »

I dont think Liverpool fans should be shouting about anything until after the Villa game tomorrow. It could still end up a pretty bad weekend for you all things considered.

Its unlikely, but so was us getting beaten 2-0 by fulham.

Id hold onto the horses just yet.

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CAN WE SHOUT ABOUT LIVERPOOL IN A TITLE RACE COME APRIL?

LuckyLloyd

PHB wrote: »

The United match changes the psychology.

Before Liverpool knew that they had to win to stay within an outside shot of winning the title. Tomorrow they know that they have to win to be fairly serious title challengers, over-taking Chelsea.

How Liverpool perform tomorrow, as the expected winner, will tell you an awful lot about how good Benetiz and the squad are.

HashSlinging

Headshot wrote: »

1 win in 7 isnt a top team

Aston Villa are 5th in the league, they are a top premiership side, they are 5th in the league, theres 20 teams in the league so I guess that makes AV a top team.

spockety

HashSlinging wrote: »

Aston Villa are 5th in the league, they are a top premiership side, they are 5th in the league, theres 20 teams in the league so I guess that makes AV a top team.

Hardly.

Liverpool have been playing a lot of rubbish teams of late.

Real Madrid - Had an off night. Sorry, two nights, home and away. Rubbish.
Man Utd - Better team on the day, very unlucky to lose that match. Lucky lucky Liverpool.
Aston Villa - Real pretenders. How they are not in the relegation zone I do not know.

Liverpool are just really fortunate to be coming up against teams who all seem to having off days. Really lucky.