Liverpool vs Aston Villa post match thread

[PaulWinch again]

Half decent performance, least we didn’t get clouted. But we carry no threat and that’s what will kill us.

Positive

Douglas - excellent again.
AEG - good it shouldn’t have been him to come off.
Taylor - Did quite well.

Negative

Davis - Nowhere near good enough to start in top flight, he’s just not a forward.
Jack - Not at a good enough level for his talent of late.
Subs - ineffectual and Jota was the wrong choice even with our limited options.

[Bobby Boy]

Keinan Davies Isn’t good enough

I think he's shit

Danny Ings or Vardy wouldn't score in this team. We don't create anything.

Can't knock too much today that would be churlish but over a season...

No goals by any midfielder or striker in 5 games since the re-start. I mean that gives you no chance at all..

[CT Villan]

Impotent up top but defence was doing well until Neil F. Taylor went to sleep.

MOTM Luiz (again).

Special mention for Reina's shocking distribution.

[levico]

It’s goodnight Vienna, hello Rotherham.

[hilts_coolerking]

A better performance but not the point we were hoping for.  The reason why we're in the shit is that generally speaking we lose when we play pretty well, and we lose when we play badly.

Luiz continues to shine, Jack was decent considering his ankle was bothering him, Mings played pretty well, Reina was solid, and AEG looked dangerous.  Fuck all from our strikers who are shite.

The truth is that Liverpool were, as predicted, on the beach and chose to rest some of their top players.  Even that was enough.

[Jon Crofts]

Lack quality all over the pitch, we’ve bought some absolute gash.
Tactically inept.
Mistake waiting to happen at the back.

I think we might stay up.

[BoVillan esq]

We now need Norwich to find something v Watford, we have to go again v Man U can't see Man u being on there summer break already, its narrowing all the time, it just feels like that mathematical thing waiting to click into place and that's it, have to say it, massive missed opportunity in the first half, just one goal would have made that very hard for Liverpool, we go again.

[CT]

Trez is absolutely pitiful.

Surely there’s a better option than him?

[ez]

For all the effort I never believed we do anything other than lose although not the thrashing I thought it would be.

[RamboandBruno]

I don’t think we deserved to lose and thought we looked reasonably comfortable up to when they scored. But yea up front is our major problem. Seeing jota come on is also uninspiring to say the least. Thought vassilev should of come on earlier.
On the plus side, McGinn did much better and Luiz was good again. Just need to play with that much effort against palace and Everton.
Problem is if Watford beat Norwich before we play Man Utd, it’ll start looking a bit all over for us.

[Toronto Villa]

I’m going to stick to my opinion...

Last season was too early for us to get promoted. We needed the extra season to rebuild, gain understanding and develop. Sadly, we can’t do that in the Premier League. Coupled that with a dreadful transfer policy, money spunked all up the walls on what is effectively garbage...

If we get relegated again, it will be time to rebuild. Again.

There is a lot of truth to that. It was all a bit of a miracle going up last season. And the dramatic squad overhaul Meant we just couldn’t get in the consistent quality of players we actually need at this level to compete. Let alone establish the chemistry that’s critical. That we will likely go down in large part is down to that before you even consider a manager who has proven himself to be out of his depth.

[andyh]

In junior football, whether adults or kids, there is always one player who is utterly shit but gets a game every now and again because people feel sorry for him and think he should get a game because he always turns up for training.
Or because his dad drives the mini bus.


That’s Trezeguet that is.

[malckennedy]

Didn’t really deserve to lose that. Wish we could take our chances. More shots than them again, 9 against 6 and many other promising attacks. Only Man U to get out the way and we have games where we can pick up points if keep this level up - fancy wins against Everton, Palace and West Ham and maybe a point against Arsenal. 37 points and safety!

[LukeJames]

Taylor - Did quite well.

Apart from losing Mane for the opening, naff defending.

[AlexAlexCropley]

What's the betting Grealish doesn't figure against Man U?