Aston Villa 3-3 Liverpool Post Match breather

[joe_c]

Knock knock
Who's there?
Zadok
Zadok who?
https://youtu.be/3kucFS9Gafk?si=6As7-ARpD1uK2btk&t=1m20s

[jon collett]

Found the Liverpool supporters pretty irritating. Most of their chants are dirges.

Thought Watkins playing within himself (possibly because of the Euros) and Bailey can’t sprint and hasn’t been able to for a while.

Thought McGinn immense and drive the team on and Duran so positive when he came on.

Loved the lap of recognition after the game and Unai’s reception. Best bit of the night.

Was Unai booked after the equaliser and if so why?

[dave.woodhall]

Found the Liverpool supporters pretty irritating. Most of their chants are dirges.

Thought Watkins playing within himself (possibly because of the Euros) and Bailey can’t sprint and hasn’t been able to for a while.

Thought McGinn immense and drive the team on and Duran so positive when he came on.

Loved the lap of recognition after the game and Unai’s reception. Best bit of the night.

Was Unai booked after the equaliser and if so why?

Running onto the pitch.

[Monty]

Proud of them. Proud of every last one of them. What absolute balls this team has! Sometimes bravery means a big block, but to be 3-1 down, to Liverpool, after the run we've had, with the injuries, the tiredness, the pressure, and to keep taking the ball under pressure, playing their way, not giving up...that's such footballing courage. Amazing.

Let's hope they do get a well-deserved freebie on Sunday, but even if we have to get something from the game, they've really made it seem more possible now. Never know when they're beaten this team. What a bunch of lads.

[Brazilian Villain]

Proud of them. Proud of every last one of them. What absolute balls this team has! Sometimes bravery means a big block, but to be 3-1 down, to Liverpool, after the run we've had, with the injuries, the tiredness, the pressure, and to keep taking the ball under pressure, playing their way, not giving up...that's such footballing courage. Amazing.

Let's hope they do get a well-deserved freebie on Sunday, but even if we have to get something from the game, they've really made it seem more possible now. Never know when they're beaten this team. What a bunch of lads.

Very well said, sums it perfectly.

[Rory]

Hate to reignite this, but I do want to check.

For Liverpool's second, I presume the rule is that a body part that a player can't score from cannot be offside?

Because from the AVTV footage, the Liverpool player who delivers the ball across definitely appears to have his full arm (possibly a shoulder and part of a leg) beyond our defensive line when the ball is played to him.

No conspiracy nonsense, just the penultimate pass looked a little iffy to me.

[Percy McCarthy]

Proud of them. Proud of every last one of them. What absolute balls this team has! Sometimes bravery means a big block, but to be 3-1 down, to Liverpool, after the run we've had, with the injuries, the tiredness, the pressure, and to keep taking the ball under pressure, playing their way, not giving up...that's such footballing courage. Amazing.

Let's hope they do get a well-deserved freebie on Sunday, but even if we have to get something from the game, they've really made it seem more possible now. Never know when they're beaten this team. What a bunch of lads.

Very well said, sums it perfectly.

Couldn’t agree more.

[Ads]

So proud of them for that, to come back when they're clearly running on fumes, just shows such huge character.

Undone by 3 really poor goals and lacking a cutting edge for any of the 4 or 5 nailed on, gilt edged chances we created. Inexplicable for the first, we just switch off for the 2nd (although I've seen stills that make him look offside) Dougie I think just doesn't follow him when he becomes his man and Digne loses out a bit too easily for the third. Good header mind.

Diaby should score in the first half and the place would have exploded if he'd have scored that chance at 3-3. He did fantastically well for the 3rd with the driving run.

Tielemans is such a class act. We've missed him and his calm presence. Uses the ball really well.

Really unclear to me how they were allowed to kick us to pieces all game without repercussion?

Salah looks like he doesn't give a toss anymore, the little cheat.

Not sure how Carlos misses. Or Zaniolo. But whatever, had by far the best chances throughout, but we lack the luxury of bringing £140m worth of subs on. For banter purposes or first sub naturally gets injured.

[Brazilian Villain]

Really unclear to me how they were allowed to kick us to pieces all game without repercussion?

Indeed, even taking off our claret and blue-tinted glasses, they were wondering on KUMB how Diaz the 'ankle snapper' hadn't been booked.

[KRS]

I thought Gakpo was at least a metre offside for their second - presumably I missed something?

Mixed emotions. Feels like a point salvaged but we could have won it at the death with Diaby. But the big one was Carlos in first half - Jesus wept. Hats off to every single one of them for dragging that performance out of tired bodies and for keeping going at 1-3 with five minutes left.

It was similar to the Real onside the other week. He could have stood there all match and not been called offside if the the ball went no where near him. But when the ball finally came he was behind it and being played on by Konsa / Carlos as well. No defender dropped back to mark him.

What I don’t understand about this interpretation of the offside rule is how are defenders supposed to defend against or mark a player that is blatantly in an offside position and therefore has an advantage whilst holding a defensive line intended to catch players offside. You couldn’t get a more distinct and obvious “interfering with play” than a player that has been effectively goal hanging in an offside position with the advantage of being ahead of the defensive line to get an easy tap in and score a goal. It shouldn’t be a defenders responsibility to “drop back and mark” a player that is blatantly offside. No doubt we’d have benefited from this during the course of the season but that doesn’t change the fact that the current interpretation and application of the offside rules are broken and not fit for purpose as they are.

[edgysatsuma89]

It's been like it for a while now so it's unlikely to change but I agree, it's always been bollocks.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Holy shit, that was insane.

We did enough to win that several times over.

Big props to the VP crowd for bringing us back into the game.

PS. The ref is a complete and utter wanker for allowing them to kick SJM to pieces on numerous occasions. I'm so pleased it was Mac Allister that lost the ball for our second.

This. Every single word. Still buzzing. Just how clinical is Duran?

Special mention to McGinn who just never, ever gives up. Both he and Bailey drove us forward throughout. Unbelievable effort and skill from them both. Bailey will be at home in the Champion's League, he's pure class, a real joy to watch.

[KRS]

It is exactly bollocks. For context, the issue I have with a goal like this is that it’s clearly and undisputedly the same passage of play and the player can’t be “passive” or “not interfering with play” as he scored the goal. It’s ridiculous bollocks.

[dorsetvillian]

Just home. So proud of that team tonight. How they came back from 3-1 down was fantastic. Played some superb football and certainly didn't deserve to get beat..UTV

[Paul.S]

Found the Liverpool supporters pretty irritating. Most of their chants are dirges.

Thought Watkins playing within himself (possibly because of the Euros) and Bailey can’t sprint and hasn’t been able to for a while.

Thought McGinn immense and drive the team on and Duran so positive when he came on.

Loved the lap of recognition after the game and Unai’s reception. Best bit of the night.

Was Unai booked after the equaliser and if so why?

Running onto the pitch.

That must’ve been why the messages kept coming over the tannoy about not going on the pitch. They could’ve just told him directly.😬