Match Day Thread LIVERPOOL V ASTON VILLA

After seeing off Leicester last night, Liverpool at home to Aston Villa on Saturday 20 May 2023.
Beating Leicester made it seven straight wins. Liverpool have two games left to end the season, I wish we have been playing like this since the beginning of the season, sadly we have not.
Do not expect easy game from Aston Villa bur we have home advantage.
Can MO Salah make it nine consecutive home score?
Top four is no longer in our hands, but we need to win our games and depend on other results.

FORM QUIDE:


Form Guide

>LIVERPOOL
Leicester 0-3 Liverpool
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Liverpool 1-0 Brentford
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Liverpool 1-0 Fulham
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Liverpool 4-3 Spurs
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West Ham 1-2 Liverpool
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Liverpool 3-2 Nott'm Forest

ASTON VILLA
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Aston Villa 2-1 Spurs
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Wolves 1-0 Aston Villa
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Man Utd 1-0 Aston Villa
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Aston Villa 1-0 Fulham
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Brentford 1-1 Aston Villa
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Aston Villa 3-0 Newcastle

GAME: LIVERPOOL V ASTON VILLA
VENUE: ANFIELD
DATE: 20 MAY 2023.
TIME: 15:00
TV: NOT ON TV

REFEREE IS NOT YET APPOINTED FOR THIS GAME.

 

This is going to be a big game now.

The send off for bobby. this better be parked til the game is won. we don't need a half fit player wandering out for 30mins killing the team just cos. It'd be nice for him to score and all that but lets win the game first.

once the final whistle blows then have all the niceness and hugs and stuff. no issue but wi nthe game.

 

We'll ****ing smash'em

 

I'd bite your hand off for a 1-0 win here.

Having said that, Man utd play at the same time so it'd be useful if we score before they can, in case they do check our score midgame. Need to do what we can to pressurise them in what is otherwise a winnable game for them.

 

This was always going to be the hardest of our run-in games.

Would say we're favourites but not a foregone conclusion. A win by one than one goal would be ideal to close the gap with Newcastle, we're not far off Newcastle's GD if you consider that they will have to drop points twice for us to catch them anyway... but can't be complacent.

 

villa have been liming along lately.

Beat spurs at home (so what)
Lost to wolves away
Lost to man utd away
Beat fulham at home
drew with brentford away
Beat newcastle at home.
beat forest at home
scraped by leciester away due to leicester red card

This is at anfield. I fully expect them to be focused on a clean sheet here rather than really trying to win.

Martinez
Young Konsa Mings Moreno
Bailey/traore Mcginn Luiz Ramsey
Buendia Watkins

Agasint utd they put in dedoncker as no 6 and took out bailey/traore

I doubt we will have much of a shock from them tactically.


It'll be a tight one and we need the first goal.

 

Which is exactly the type of tactics we can struggle against at times.

 

and with a proper coach who makes defending his joy. emry won't make it easy.

 

REFEREE: JOHN BROOKS.

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. Assistants: Matthew Wilkes, James Mainwaring. Fourth official: Michael Oliver. VAR: Tony Harrington. Assistant VAR: Nick Greenhalgh.

 

we are certainly seeing a lot of new refs being cycled through this season

 

Think I'll watch this one

 

Liverpool have lost six Premier League home games against Aston Villa overall, only losing more often at Anfield in the competition against Manchester United (12) and Chelsea (7}

Liverpool vs Aston Villa Head-to-Head and Key Numbers

• Liverpool have a good historical record against Aston Villa and have won 101 out of the 200 matches played between the two teams, as opposed to Aston Villa's 59 victories.
• Liverpool have won nine of their last 10 matches against Aston Villa in the Premier League, with their only defeat during this period coming by a 7-2 margin at Villa Park in 2020.
• After a run of only one defeat in six away games in the Premier League against Liverpool, Aston Villa have lost their last four such games at Anfield in the competition.
• Liverpool have suffered defeat in six matches at home against Aston Villa in the Premier League - they have worse records in this regard only against Manchester United and Chelsea.
• Liverpool have won their final home game in each of their last six seasons in the Premier League and have lost only one of their last 11 such matches.

 

its at home and we want to give bobby a send off. hopefully it will be a good one.

 

We can't really predict the outcome before the game, but be that as it may, it's going to be 6-1 isn't it?

 

FFS

 

7-2 clearly.

 

8-2.
We have to go one better.

 

7-1 is 1 better.

 

Yeah, but we haven't done an 8 this season.

 

I think you're being a bit unrealistic. We will only get six goals. It has been foretold.