Liverpool v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Aston Manor]

We started brightly, scored a cracking goal, and then basically stopped playing.  I had to skip the second half as I couldn't face watching another 49 minutes of last ditch defending , with Liverpool players throwing themselves down in the  box every 5 minutes accompanied by much baying and ref baiting from the crowd, and waiting for the inevitable equaliser (which duly arrived) and winner (which thankfully  didn't).

LOL. Same here. Reading this I thought you were me! I actually watched Bolton-Fulham 2nd half and they were really dreadful. Its a shame that we're not playing them on Monday as there's no way they'll pick themselves up for their next game after that performance. Truly, happily, woeful.

[paul_e]

I still think this was a far from convincing performance. We must be careful not to get carried away by the setting: Liverpool are not what they were, and in particularly rocky form. Also, these juniors have more fight and natural instinct for football, in my view, than many of the seniors keeping them out of the team this season. The fight was good to see, but it's a point which could easily have been naught at a side really struggling for form and a cutting edge. I'll take the point, but we treated them with a reverence they did not deserve and did not display any evidence of training ground work towards keeping possession.

Sums it up better than i was attempting to.

I'm glad we got the point but I see nothing as having changed.

[Nastylee]

At the end of the day most people didn't give us a chance of anything so the fact we played so badly (as some say) and still got a point is surely a bonus. At this stage of the season and the situation we're in then performances come second to points.

[django]

Couldn't watch the game. Buzzing we got a point, well done the kids!

[Clampy]

A very good point considering the players we had out and the fact that the ref gave us nothing (his booking of Carruthers was ridiculous). It's a game we should have lost in fairness and let's face it, the majority of us would have taken a draw before the game.

[Greg N'Ash]

Well i think people should give him a break. If MON had got a result at anfield with a battling performance playing 7 youngsters everyone would be patting him on the back. I get it, you want Mcleish gone but please try and show some perspective.

[richard moore]

I still think this was a far from convincing performance. We must be careful not to get carried away by the setting: Liverpool are not what they were, and in particularly rocky form. Also, these juniors have more fight and natural instinct for football, in my view, than many of the seniors keeping them out of the team this season. The fight was good to see, but it's a point which could easily have been naught at a side really struggling for form and a cutting edge. I'll take the point, but we treated them with a reverence they did not deserve and did not display any evidence of training ground work towards keeping possession.

Quite right but beforehand everyone was saying we were the ideal team for Racist FC to be playing to stop their rot of poor form and predicting a 3-0 or 4-0 thrashing. I've seen far better footballing Villa teams than this go up to Anfield and be 3 down in the first 20 minutes, game over, so I think we should be pleased. Also, we've always seemingly wanted to throw the kids in for the last few games of the season and now we are doing so, even if borne of necessity rather than idealism. You never know, we might be witnessing a quiet revolution...probably not but we have to cling onto something!

[Irish villain]

The highlights are on Irish tv right now.

[mikeb1982]

Good point I didn't expect, Suarez provides more evidence that he is a fetid polyp on the ever increasing arsehole of PL football, the kids did good and anything that makes KKKenny further embarrass himself by stuttering through interviews like an angry backwater drunk is a good thing

[Clampy]

Well i think people should give him a break. If MON had got a result at anfield with a battling performance playing 7 youngsters everyone would be patting him on the back. I get it, you want Mcleish gone but please try and show some perspective.

Ahh Greg mentions MON.

Again.

[Irish villain]

We were robbed. Carruthers was clearly fouled.

[Lobsterboy]

A good result made even better by the results of those teams below us.

Credit to Big Eck and the players for a battling performance and hope we can carry some positivity into the match with Stoke on Monday

Oh and for all those waxing lyrical about Houllier and his great brand of football please cast your minds back to this fixture last season...

[Greg N'Ash]

Well i think people should give him a break. If MON had got a result at anfield with a battling performance playing 7 youngsters everyone would be patting him on the back. I get it, you want Mcleish gone but please try and show some perspective.

Ahh Greg mentions MON.

Again.

well seeing we got turned over 5-0 at anfield under MON with his strongest side i thought it was a valid point

[Clampy]

We were robbed. Carruthers was clearly fouled.

Gerrard and Suarez both went down in the box in the first half without being touched and neither were booked, but i suppose it takes more bottle to book a 17 year old who'd only been on the pitch for 2 minutes than a Liverpool player at home.

[Toronto Villa]

Well i think people should give him a break. If MON had got a result at anfield with a battling performance playing 7 youngsters everyone would be patting him on the back. I get it, you want Mcleish gone but please try and show some perspective.

Ahh Greg mentions MON.

Again.

well seeing we got turned over 5-0 at anfield under MON with his strongest side i thought it was a valid point

It is. McLeish has made numerous errors this season but given what he had to work with he got it right. The players worked their balls off for him today, and Collins, Warnock and Lichaj were superb the back. Baker was very solid and even Hutton put in a display. Given was simply spectacular at times.