Liverpool v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[richard moore]

Suarez didnt dive it was a penalty. Guzan had no need to bring him down.We could have been 4 goals up after 25mins with some luck and 5 goals up after 36mins. Didnt collapse in the second half. Performance of the season. Sylla played well when he arrived. Vlaar got Man of the Match and he deserved it. Benteke back to his best.

It was a blatant dive

In your opinion.

Dear oh dear oh dear.....words fail me which is just as well as I'd very rude if they didn't

Your post beggars belief quite frankly

[SashasGrandad]

Suarez didnt dive it was a penalty. Guzan had no need to bring him down.We could have been 4 goals up after 25mins with some luck and 5 goals up after 36mins. Didnt collapse in the second half. Performance of the season. Sylla played well when he arrived. Vlaar got Man of the Match and he deserved it. Benteke back to his best.

Erh guzan didnt touch him but I dont blame the ref as it looked a pen from first view.

Agreed Ref not at fault - and linesman the wrong side. Suarez knew it and tried it on.

Ref had previously not fallen for his tricks - and had a good game. Unless you have video evidence cheats will get away with it.

[Toronto Villa]

Encouraging.  Galling to lose a two goal lead, but in a similar scenario, we'd have lost that last season.

If we can somehow transfer a bit of that verve and attacking threat we displayed first half into our home performances we'll be fine.   Up to 10th too, after two tough games.

Liverpool at home against almost anyone this season has been a home win so this is very encouraging. The most encouraging thing is that we went at them and had immense belief. Today as much as the second half of Arsenal will give us so much confidence. Add a player or two and we will be comfortably safe this season.

[FrankyH]

Good performance , losing Gabby was a big factor .KEA just doesn't do it for me, shouldn't be in the starting 11.

KEA was immense in that first half, he completed dominated Steeeeeevie G. Granted he has been poor at home but away from home I think he has looked worthy of the shirt.

I thought Weimann  took care of Gerrard playing deeper. It's all about opinions ain't it ,another poster thought Weimann was crap.Anyhow lets enjoy it tonight, feel more confident about the next few games especially the baggies.

[supertom]

Suarez didnt dive it was a penalty. Guzan had no need to bring him down.We could have been 4 goals up after 25mins with some luck and 5 goals up after 36mins. Didnt collapse in the second half. Performance of the season. Sylla played well when he arrived. Vlaar got Man of the Match and he deserved it. Benteke back to his best.

It was a blatant dive

In your opinion.

I think in the opinion of anyone with reasonable eyesight.  If there was a touch, and I'm not convinced there was, it was due to the cheat thrusting out his trailing leg to touch Guzan.  That's not an action by Guzan so how can it be a foul by Guzan?  And it would never have been sufficient contact to cause him to fall anyway.  Whichever way you look at it, it was never a penalty in a million years.  And there was a second, and worse,  incident later where Suarez jumped into Sylla, tripped Sylla,  then threw himself to the floor and the ref gave Suarez the free kick.  Hard to believe what I was seeing, except of course nothing surprises me with these incompetent/dishonest refs these days.   

It's unfortunate. Suarez is master conman. Incidents like that, 9 times out of 10 at Anfield are gonna go Liverpools way. There was no contact but that cheating fecker sold it and as soon as it happened I knew it'd be given. But you know there's not an ounce of honesty in that bastard. He's always gonna go down in a situation like that, and most times will get the decision.

[paul_e]

I imagine many have commented on something I saw when Gabby went over the hoardings and looked in trouble. The nearest Liverpool supporter showed his concern by getting out his camera to take a picture.

An absolute disgrace and Sky picked it up and no doubt the BBC will tonight.

Only after laughing about it.

Another thought, how did we end up with 4 yellow cards to their 0, almost the same amount of fouls and in similar situations, but the ref just didn't seem to care about anything they did.  The one that really annoyed me was Henderson batting the ball out the air with his hand in the first half.  It was so blatant I don't get how the ref didn't see that as a booking.

[lovejoy]

Suarez didnt dive it was a penalty. Guzan had no need to bring him down.We could have been 4 goals up after 25mins with some luck and 5 goals up after 36mins. Didnt collapse in the second half. Performance of the season. Sylla played well when he arrived. Vlaar got Man of the Match and he deserved it. Benteke back to his best.

It was a blatant dive

In your opinion.

Yes, in applying the laws. I'm sorry mate that's a dive all day.

[KRS]

Suarez didnt dive it was a penalty. Guzan had no need to bring him down.We could have been 4 goals up after 25mins with some luck and 5 goals up after 36mins. Didnt collapse in the second half. Performance of the season. Sylla played well when he arrived. Vlaar got Man of the Match and he deserved it. Benteke back to his best.

It was a blatant dive

In your opinion.

Guzan didn't touch him. There was no contact on either left or right leg. Suarez intentionally simulated a fall as he steps over with his right leg, so he basically conned the ref who pretty has no choice but to give the penalty...and in fairness to the ref, anyone would have given that unless you have a slowed down camera view from the angle linked above.

Arguably the best performance of the season, and hope we can clear any injuries before the Baggies game...we should destroy them if we play like we did today, and it will be interesting how Baggies perform under new management against Everton on Monday.

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

First half was great, second half was okay. Bringing on Holt for Agbonlahor was a weird decision.

Oh and fuck off, Suarez.

[DB]

Great performance. Thought we would get beaten easily, but we played like we did back end of last season. Gabby loss was a big factor 2nd half but we held our own. He gave us a good outlet. Overall we play like that we'll be fine.

[FrankyH]

If Hodgson is Relying on Gerrard for World Cup glory it might be a cheap hotel bill in Brazil. He looked liked he was running through wet cemet first half.

[mrastonvilla]

Result of the day, Stan looking really well on the box

[dave shelley]

I think it was a dive even though they are saying on Sky that it was, but you would expect that anyway.  I think it was the upward movement of Guzan's right hand that made the referee's mind up.  As has been pointed out above, the linesman was on the other side and Suarez is a very clever player and knew at and chanced his arm and got lucky.

I've not been out since before Christmas but tonight's the night and that result and positivity means I'm going to enjoy it.

[Ian.]

Excellent performance all round. Well done all. It's a pity we didn't get 3 points, however I originally predicted a tonking today from them and then our season to start. I'm over the moon with this point as we began to look like a team for 20 minutes against Arsenal and for the most part today. A bit of luck and it would have been another Anfield win.

Lets keep up the hard work, pressing, passing and moving and we'll do just fine. Up the Villa.

[danno]

So does this mean that Stevie Me isn't the new Pirlo after all?

Actually sod it, I don't want to talk about him or the vampire.

Benteke has returned, Vlaar is growing a foot taller every game, we have a left back!
Weimann scored, lots of positives to take from today.