Aston Villa 1 Liverpool 3 Post Match Thread.

[Paul.S]

Kamara is a proper, proper player.

I know the keeper plays a huge role but whenever we play without martinez, the entire back 4 shit their pants, Where's the fucking composure and leadership on the pitch.

We really missed JJ's ball carrying and pace I thought

Agree 100% with this. He can receive the ball in any area and comfortably control it and find a team mate. We need to surround him with others of the same ilk and then we’ll be a very decent side. At the moment the ability to pass and move with any pace at all just isn’t there often enough.

[Goldie.7]

I can’t take many positives from that performance.
Same problems that have been there for too long now, vulnerable in defence, wasteful with the ball in midfield and unable to convert decent chances up front.
Add to this a complete lack of use of the bench until it’s too late and you have just another repeat performance and result.

Correct. Same old shit just a different day.

[Nelly]

Was Kamara excellent? I still don't really see it with him. Technically decent but is he the player that's going to drive the midfield forward?

I thought he was excellent today - especially second half. He isn't the one to drive us forwards but rather the base we start from, hopefully allowing others to do whatever they're supposed to be good at.

[eamonn]

Everyone seems to be in agreement with you so I'll bow to the common opinion.

[brontebilly]

Was Kamara excellent? I still don't really see it with him. Technically decent but is he the player that's going to drive the midfield forward?

I thought he was excellent today - especially second half. He isn't the one to drive us forwards but rather the base we start from, hopefully allowing others to do whatever they're supposed to be good at.

There's a bit of a worry that he doesn't spot danger quickly enough from counter attacks. There shouldn't be situations where both Kamara and Luiz are caught ahead of the ball like what happened a number of times today. But he had a good game in the main in terms of winning the ball and distributing it quickly.

[ROBBO]

Suprised that many thought McGinn had a good game. I know he had to play as cover to Young especially in the first half but going forward, apart from his miss in front of goal he was inaffective. He is one player we could get a good return on.

[brontebilly]

Suprised that many thought McGinn had a good game. I know he had to play as cover to Young especially in the first half but going forward, apart from his miss in front of goal he was inaffective. He is one player we could get a good return on.

Put ball on plate for Watkins to miss the sitter early on. The further away he is from our goal the better he is. Would wish he stopped shooting from outside the box though, or trying to and inevitably getting blocked.

[Risso]

Can't say I'm a big fan of this 4-4-2. Bailey isn't really a striker, and Buendia isn't quick enough to play as an othodox winger.

[TonyD]

We created enough to win the game.
McGinn is the difference .  A better player and I think we would have won.

[tony scott]

I found this game disappointing we pushed to high up from the back thank goodness Nunez isn’t your usual lethal Liverpool Striker. Watkins is very hit and miss I’d prefer him  in the role of second striker coming in from out wide. We go on to Spurs and I can’t see us getting anything except more experience the Emery way ,which I hope is the way ahead.

[Villafirst]

Why was Ings dropped to the bench having scored 4 goals in 4 games prior to the World Cup, including both goals at Brighton?

[ROBBO]

We have very able mid table players in abundance but there is only a handful that I wouldn't want to sell for decent money.
If we cannot strengthen in January I worry that the players we want to keep will be looking elsewhere, which is history repeating itself.

[andyh]

Olsen is strange goalkeeper.
He appears to instil zero confidence in the players in front of him, quite the opposite actually, his distribution is woeful, his kicking was absolutely rubbish and his panicky reactions cost us the the third, killer goal.

All that said he made a few great saves that probably stoped the scoreline from being very embarrassing.

Clearly, nowhere near good enough though.

[jwarry]

Can’t believe some of the doom and gloom on here.  Yes we are short of quality in some key areas but I saw a team beginning to come to terms with the new manager’s ways.  At times we were very good and had a top side on the ropes for large periods so for me it’s going in the right direction in what is only Emery’s third PL game, so give the guy a chance!

[Dave P]

An off day but we’ve had far bigger off days in 2022. Plenty of positives to take forward.

My brother in law is a Liverpool fan and said we will create chances against them which we did. A centre forward who could finish them and the legs from midfield would have made this game much closer. That said if they had a forward who could finish, we’d have been battered!

Kamara is a Rolls Royce of a player