Aston Villa v Liverpool - FA Cup 3rd Rd Match Thread

[Jon Crofts]

I’ll be honest I’d have a proper chuckle if one of our kids absolutely clatters Salad or Mane and puts them out for 6 weeks. Serve the toothy whiner right.

[Villa Lew]

Villa 35/1

[Risso]

Fuck it, let's just smash them. Imagine that after beating them 7-2 already this season. Picking a team like that and going home as losers.

[Holte132]

Villa 35/1

I don't think we'll win by that margin

[paul_e]

I hate posting this but I think Klopp has done the right thing. The only way they 'win' this one is if they score 3-4 in the first hour and then coast home. Anything closer and it's embarrassing, anything more and it looks like they've held a grudge from the league game. I suspect the team wouldn't have been much different if it had been our first 11 and that'll be his claim so he can claim the team was decided before they heard anything about us having issues.

I'm surprised Salah and Mane have both started though, I expected 1 to be rested from the start and the other to come off early in the 2nd half.

[Risso]

Who's that no. 67, he looks like he can handle himself. Early reducer on Salah please.

[Villan For Life]

Come on you Lion Cubs!

[olaftab]

I see Origi and OX-Chambes not good enough to to play against our boys.

[kippaxvilla2]

Whoever called Klopp Bingo I haven’t stopped laughing since

[aj2k77]

Fairly despicable from Klopp if you ask me, surely he could have selected their youth side aswell and at least have a competitive game. This will be nasty

But we didn’t last season?

I’m surprised he’s out such a strong team out though. I’d laugh if Salah does his hamstring

No we didn't. We rested our entire team.

The point is Klopps a snide who talks bollocks. Not that our under strength youth team are going to lose a game. No one really cares about a game we'd probably lose at full strength anyway. I take issue when  a bloke has been calling out another manager all season, calling him selfish for not wanting the rules changed because they don't benefit his side. Klopp sent out a weaker team last January, in a 3rd round match against their local rivals. He talks shite and has outed himself as a little, bitter, excuse making prick.

[pauliewalnuts]

Klopp is an unsporting arsehole for doing this.

I hope we're not about to see a bunch of kids have their confidence destroyed in the name of keeping the FA happy.

[Drummond]

I'm not bitter. Great experience for the lads, a chance they'd never expect and an opportunity and experience they'll never forget.

[luke:lamf]

Personally I think the kids are bloody lucky - a free hit against a decent first XI of the Champions and last-but-one Champions League winners, with no crowd. Enjoy it lads and show everyone what you can do to stake a place in the first team/squad and ise it as motivation to push on.

[villa `cross the mersey]

If  our predictions of  a rout comes to pass no one wins ......Klopp will look a hypocrite whilst our young players will learn nothing from being thrashed on National TV . The game should have been postponed

[Small Rodent]

They’re tiny compared to Liverpool!

It’s a proud day for them, fuck the result.