Liverpool v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Louzie0]

Great to be tenth and a top six performance tonight.

But I don't think anybody's been 'miserablist', things are incredibly tight in the bottom half with six points separating ten clubs. We had some shocking results (Palace at home, Fulham away in particular) and are 7 points off 9th and only six points off bottom.

A win against Baggies and I will finally relax and start to feel confident we are a mid-table team. Come on lads, deliver that...I want to escape the 'moaner' column I have been in for the past few months.

I think a few posters have been totally miserablist, actually.

We are all aware of where we are and what needs to happen, but some of us are more inclined to see what is possible, rather than writing off matches as impossible. UTV!

[CJ]

I take full credit for our performance and result today. For the first time in over 20 years I didn't catch an away game either in person, live on the internet, or by commentary on the radio. I had to wait until MOTD to see how we did, fully expecting a defeat. We looked superb and were robbed by Suarez having to cheat. I should miss more games.

[Exeter 77]

It seems even Suarez acknowledges his reputation according to this (admittedly tongue-in-cheek) ad.


http://m.youtube.com/results?q=luis%20suarez%20advert&sm=3

[Louzie0]

Well done CJ.
You got us a fantastic performance and a draw.

I am waiting to hear what you can do / miss / forfeit for the win!

[Dave Cooper please]

I have a major soft spot for Clark,

I have a hard spot.

[villajk]

Difficult to tell from our position but we all thought Guzan had pulled that c**t down. Bloke behind showed us a clip of it on his phone. He really does need fucking off out of this league. It won't bother me one iota if someone breaks both his legs and he never plays again. I don't mean Guzan, obviously.

Nor me, hope you had a great day out, I'd break them for him if you gave me a hammer

The pre-match pub was top drawer and sold some cracking beer. Roll on Everton away.

Which pub?
I love Liverpool.

It was the Fly in the a Loaf

[CJ]

Well done CJ.
You got us a fantastic performance and a draw.

I am waiting to hear what you can do / miss / forfeit for the win!

I'm open to offers 

[Dave Cooper please]

Suarez definitely dived but I can't blame the ref for giving it,

No, I don't blame the ref, I blame Suarez for being a cheating ******.

[Dave Cooper please]

Difficult to tell from our position but we all thought Guzan had pulled that c**t down. Bloke behind showed us a clip of it on his phone. He really does need fucking off out of this league. It won't bother me one iota if someone breaks both his legs and he never plays again. I don't mean Guzan, obviously.

Nor me, hope you had a great day out, I'd break them for him if you gave me a hammer

The pre-match pub was top drawer and sold some cracking beer. Roll on Everton away.

Which pub?
I love Liverpool.

It was the Fly in the a Loaf

Superb pub. Liverpool has more than it's fair share of marvellous pubs.

[DrGonzo]

  I would have been relieved with a point before kick off, naturally disappointed with just one after the half an hour mark.  I'd like to see a video of the game so that I could count on one hand the number of challenges made on Suarez and Sterling that didn't end up with them rolling in the dirt (awful sentence, sorry).  The landlord at me local is calling Suarez "The Submariner". 
  That was the most encouraging performance I've seen since Arsenal on the opening day.  With the notable exception of the first goal I thought we pressed higher and better than we have all season.  Tekkers looks as though he is finding his touch, unlike El Ahmadi who's first touch is abysmal, although at least he looked to battle and get forward for a change.  A shame we lost Gabby as he took most of our attacking threat with him over that advertising board.   Bertrand looked like a Messiah after the last 16 months.

[Lamb_Stockmix]

Thought we were the best we'd been since the opening day. Dunno how though? All of a sudden we decided to be confident and play everything on the floor. Loved it. Well done Villa.

Shame we got cheated by a stupid racist ugly c u n t.

[brontebilly]

I predicted a hammering pre-match so happy to be eating humble pie.

thought we were a long way the better side in the first half. When Gabby went off a lot of our threat went.

Our midfield gets a lot of stick but comfortably outplayed Liverpool. Delph was excellent, Westwood when he was on the ball was very good. Just Id like him to show for it more. Even Kea had a decent game.

Bertrand had a very good debut, the entire back four was very good. Hopefully Weimann's goal will give him a boost, thought he tired badly though and should have been replaced near the end.

Credit to Lambert, the side was real fired up from the start and pressed very high up the pitch. We totally exploited Gerrard's lack of mobility and were running through their midfield at will in the first half. To be only a goal up at the break was criminal considering the chances we had and our dominance. The cheating got them an undeserved point. Gabby's departure robbed us of a threat up top but still I was happy enough how we were playing. Holt wasnt that bad, Sylla came on and made some big tackles. An excellent performance and with a bit more self belief would have taken home the three points.

Any talk of Liverpool title charge was exposed today really. Suarez is a phenomenal player, the best player in the league. Sturridge too is a clever forward and finished his goal superbly. Aside from that they really are nothing more than average. Both their full backs were woeful. Centre halves bullied into submission. Their lack of mobility in midfield was startling, cant afford to have Gerrard in the quarterback role throwing the odd good pass but been ran around for the rest of the game. The form of Johnson and Gerrard should be worrying for England supporters pre World Cup.

A final word for the ref who had a shocker. Not just the hometown decision for the penalty but a load of other decisions too. David Pleat was on about it the whole game.

[Exeter 77]

The penalty decision aside, I thought the referee made some strange calls on bookings especially the one for Bertrand for persistent infringement when Sterling had committed three fouls and a handball in the first 15 minutes without even being spoken to.

[peter w]

As someone here has previously said, we're either very good or shit. No in between. Brendan Rogers put it well:

“It was a good point,” Rodgers said. “We were nowhere near our level in the first half and you have to give Villa credit for that. Tactically we had to change things to get back in the game. Supporters expect us to win but you can’t win every game. This time we’ve been two goals down against a good side and ended up getting a point.”

The Independent, amongst many, clearly saw the game that we did:

Villa set out from the start to spoil any party plans that Liverpool might have had. Even before Andreas Weimann’s 25th-minute goal put them in front, they had seized the initiative impressively.

You know...me now...when we get it right we are avery good team. How often will we see the team we thought we'd see more of this season turn up?

[Villa in Denmark]

Maybe this should be in  the little things that make life oh so annoying, but all this talk of a quarterback role really gets my on tits.

It's the wrong f%¤#ing sport, and basically means a half decent midfielder who either can't be bothered to, or is incapable of running.  It just doesn't work.  I seem to remember a
D. Beckham esq. trying the same old horlicks and it costing England the game away to Northern Ireland.  Call it NeoHoofball it's just as accurate.

On this basis, Guzan has been auditioning for a move back to the USA and looking for a contract with Buffalo Bills or whoever has got the shittest QB at the moment.