Liverpool 1-0 Aston Villa post match thread

[Brend'Watkins]

No complaints with the result apart from the fact we should have had a pen.  Thought Mings was immense up until the foul that gave them the pen. Luiz is a very frustrating player, lots of good but slow to recognise a good
quick pass and invariably gets caught.

[Toronto Villa]

We play like that against most teams we will gain points from the vast majority.

[BoVillan esq]

Nothing to be despondent about here, this was Liverpool and it was at their place, thought for periods in the 2nd half we showed some excellent skill, Steve's doing a fine job, we look a completely different outfit from a few months ago. 

Plus that was a pen, no doubt, or  at very least should have been looked at, remarkable.

[Nunkin1965]

If you wanted more evidence of so called top teams getting decisions there is plenty today.
Not much difference in either incident today.
Two great showing by us though against City and Liverpool though.

[wolfman999]

Today was a free hit and anything would have been a bonus. Overall, it looked to be a good performance against one of the best teams in the league. A soft penalty for them, nothing for us at the other end.  We just have to make sure we avoid our customary habit of giving away points to teams at the bottom of the table. Anything less than 6 points for the next couple of games would not be acceptable.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Didn't see any pre-match build up or kick-off to avoid the inevitable w-nkfest.
Only saw the 2nd half. Very poor. Nothing in midfield. No press no support for Ollie and very little animation from the touchline. 8 goals we scored against this lot last season. With the team set up as it was today we didn't even come near troubling them until they tired. Until Ings and Buendia came on we weren't prepared to have a go. Disappointing. That said the ref/var cheated us out of yet another pen, which I feel sure would have been given the other way had it been 0-0.
Mings, Targett and Ollie all at least tried. Our manager will know now (if he didn't already) what a moaning, whinging cheating bunch of b-stards the red scouse are.

[Percy McCarthy]

Totally outclassed for 75 minutes. We ought to have been feeling the relief of stealing a point because their keeper brought Ings down. No question, that was a penalty.

Agree with all that. Disappointed with our lack of composure on the ball until they scored, from then on we were great.

Mings was fantastic.

[Nunkin1965]

Oh and Jim Beglin can do one.

[serbentoflight]

There's no such thing s a 'Good loss' but this is sort of close. Played well against a very good side, no injuries, no sendings off to scupper Xmas team selection. Hopefully easier games to come.
Other results mean we're still very mid-table. We can shrug this result off and take plus points

[Nev]

We come away without our pride and our momentum just about intact and that really was the likely outcome. No need to dwell too much on this and look forward to Tuesday instead which I don't think will be as straightforward as we may think.

At least the Liverpool/Gerrard thing is put to bed again for a while.

[villa for life]

Salah the difference

If he’d be on our side, I think we’d have won by more than one.

[TopDeck113]

Not many teams will get a point at Anfield this season.  If VAR had done what it's there to do, we may have been one of them.

[john2710]

Defended well for 70 mins & improved going forward in the last 20 or so. I guess if you appeal for 20 pens per game you'll eventually get one.

Thought theirs was a pen & ours too. But the game is as biased towards the top teams as it ever was. VAR has made no difference, other than to make it more blatant.

[Risso]

Two penalty calls, and of course they get awarded one and we don't.

Played well, just wish we'd gone at them a bit earlier. Like the Man City game, we showed we had the ability to hurt them.

[Legion]

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