Liverpool v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Brian Taylor]

Benteke?  Why should we let go of a goal-scoring and goal-making genius..for any money??

[Louzie0]

Back atcha, Eamonn!

[john e]

its so exciting what Lamberts doing at Villa,
 anyone that cant see it maybe ought to take up watching another sport, because they obviously dont understand anything about football

[PeterWithesShin]

Second MOTD apparently.

[JJ-AV]

I only caught the second half, but I bloody love Weimann. His enthusiasm is great to see.

To think 8 months ago a load of us (me included) were complaining about the lack of likeable characters in our squad.

[LeeB]

Fun fact of the day. This is the first time an away side has scored 3 at Anfield in the league since ............ Liverpool 1 - 3 Aston Villa 2009.

The night I found out I was going to be a dad.

2 and a half years later he's just called his grandad (a palace fan) to sing "Villa, cha-cha-cha" down the line.

[LeeB]

its so exciting what Lamberts doing at Villa,
 anyone that cant see it maybe ought to take up watching another sport, because they obviously dont understand anything about football

Bang on John.

[peter w]

Whilst Benteke especially, and Weimann, will quite rightly take the plaudits a moment to praise the defence. In particular I thought Nathan Baker was absolutely superb. One great challenge that was old school centre-half on Sterling on the half-way line and another on Shelvey has  he's about to shoot in front of goal. Great performance from him.

[hilts_coolerking]

They can talk sense over on RAWK too:

"Paul Lambert is in the exact same position as brendan rodgers. He's trying to rebuild a team, while cutting his squad back, and relying on youngsters. he's trying too drill them in a way of playing, and sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. You have your good and your bad days. Today was a good day for villa. Today was a bad day for us. We aren't as bad as the first five games made us look, and we're not quite as good as the next 11 games made us look either. We'll have good and bad days until our players are more experienced, and we've got a better squad.

Villa have had a lot of bad days so far this season, but by all accounts the Villa fans are largely behind lambert, and believe in his project. They kind of have to, anyone would look like a genius beside McLeish. But they've had to be very patient. We would do well to do the same. Yes we got done today, but we have to pick up and start again. If we'd won, we'd have gone seventh, two points off fourth. But we didn't. It's important not to lose the head just because we lost again.

This season is all about stopping the rot, and laying the foundations for the next couple of seasons, we're not going to get anywhere if we start to go crazy everytime we hit a bump in the road.

That said, it would be easier to be patient if the manager didn't talk about second place. They have sergio aguero, carlos tevez and edin dzeko. we won't be catching them anytime soon, so talking like this leaves you looking ridiculous. If someone is excessively positive all the time, people start to think you're unhinged. BR needs to dial back the positivity a bit, giving praise when it's due, and talking up the future, but er, perhaps not so much"

That is a very good post.

[Dante Lavelli]

I like this, from The Guardian:

Villa's forwards will take the plaudits for their four passes that pierced the Liverpool defence and saw the Austrian forward sweep home Benteke's exquisite back-heel across the penalty area. The credit runs much deeper, however, with Bannan, Ashley Westwood and others involved in an 18-touch move before Weimann struck.

As the goalscorer and creator celebrated in one corner, Westwood turned the other way to applaud the team-mates behind.

Love that.  Westwood seems to be a great team player.  He described himself as like Carrick and his style is similar, but he's much more vocal and a real driving force for the whole team.

[N'ZMAV]

I'm going to get a pen and write AVFC on my cock.

I'm going to do the same, only mine will say "Aston Villa Football Club, by far the greatest team the world has ever seen".

Same here, but I have included 'we are..'

mine will add Champions of Europe 1982 on too

[Percy McCarthy]

You're all just on about your knobs surely?

[Matt Collins]

its so exciting what Lamberts doing at Villa,
 anyone that cant see it maybe ought to take up watching another sport, because they obviously dont understand anything about football

Exactly. Risso . .  ahem.

[eamonn]

Fun fact of the day. This is the first time an away side has scored 3 at Anfield in the league since ............ Liverpool 1 - 3 Aston Villa 2009.

Cor that's a stat attack, right enough.  Superb.

Indeed. I think our last 3 Anfield victories have all been 1-3. The first being a few days before 9/11. So I was a bit disappointed/greedy when Gerrard (who, still, always scores against us) pulled one back today. Minor detail though, it's 3 points to be savoured.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

its so exciting what Lamberts doing at Villa,
 anyone that cant see it maybe ought to take up watching another sport, because they obviously dont understand anything about football

Exactly. Risso . .  ahem.

We could have the greatest manager ever and win everything and he'd still find something to whinge and moan about!