💥 | 5’ van Dijk fires well over
💥 | 5’ John McGinn concedes a sloppy corner
💥 | 6’ Tyrone Mings blocks Jota’s shot
💥 | 7’ John McGinn plays Liverpool in, Jota wide
🗒️ | 10’ Axel Disasi maraudes forward, Morgan Rogers’ cross blocked
🗒️ | 12’ Marcus Rashford seeing the ball a lot but can’t get the final pass as Liverpool throw bodies at the ball
🆘 | 13’ Szoboszlai fouls Tielemans, referee Pawson awards the free kick
❗| 14’ Chance! Marco Asensio desperately defended by Konate before Alisson punches behind
🗒️ | 14’ Villa pressurising runaway leaders Liverpool
🆘 | 16’ Szoboszlai fouls Tielemans, referee Pawson does nothing, poor
⚽ | 18’ Goal, 1-0, Marcus Rashford, Assist by Marco Asensio
🆘 | 18’ Linesman flags for offside, referee Pawson disallows goal
🗒️ | 19’ Emi Martínez comes off his line to clear
🗒️ | 20’ Emi Martínez comes off his line to block
🗒️ | 23’ Andrés García maraudes forwards and wins a corner
🗒️ | 23’ Corner taken but referee Pawson stops game
🟨 | 23’ Booking, Axel Disasi
🗒️ | 23’ Disasi booked for appearing to push professional irritant and serial diver Alexis Mac Allister in the face. Silly if understandable.
🗒️ | 28’ Andrés García maraudes forwards again before Mac Allister’s dark arts wins Liverpool a saving free kick
🥅 | 30’ Goal, 0-1, (Liverpool), Mohamed Salah
🗒️ | Ridiculous goal, undeserved and emanating from a terrible ball from Andrés García into the penalty area allowing Liverpool to score with ease. To be fair he knew immediately he’d messed up.
🆘 | 35’ Liverpool continue time wasting, this time Trent Alexander-Arnold
🗒️ | 37’ Mac Allister’s dark arts wins another free kick, horrible player, typically Liverpool
🗒️ | 37’ Free kick for Villa after Rashford’s charge, comes to nothing
⚽ | 39’ Goal!, 1-0, Youri Tielemans
🗒️ | Villa deservedly get back parity as Liverpool can’t luck in to more desperate defending again and Tielemans hits a snap shot into the ground and net.
💥 | 40’ Jota shoots so wide it’s almost a throw in
🗒️ | That’s Liverpool’s first real chance of their own making since the 6’. Villa are more than a match for these.
💥 | 40’ Jones wide, much much closer
🗒️ | 42’ Morgan Rogers and Marcus Rashford combine but cannot connect
🆘 | 44’ Liverpool hoof it embarrassingly before Jota fouls Disasi, referee Pawson gives nothing
🆘 | 45’ Gravenberch fouls Morgan Rogers stopping his forward charge, referee Pawson gives nothing
🗒️ | 45’+1 Liverpool not coping with Villa at all well, Konate the latest to resort to desperate defending
⚽ | 45’+3 Goal!, 2-1, Ollie Watkins, Assist by Lucas Digne
🗒️ | Villa deservedly lead, wonderful cross from Lucas Digne for a cushioned Watkins header
🎥 | 45’+3 VAR Check… handball by John McGinn, although that was at least 3 passages of play before the goal, this is PGMOL & Liverpool though so….
🎥 | VAR confirms goal, phew, at last some commonsense, firstly it was not in the same phase and secondly Jota had kicked the ball at McGinn’s hand, not even close to being justification for a free kick let alone disallowing a goal 30 seconds later
🗒️ | Liverpool players surrounding the officials to complain, really really poor from the scousers, exactly how they were in the 70’s and 80’s, entitled fools who clearly do not understand the game. Still it is pleasantly surprising that the officials didn’t bow to the Liverpool mafia.
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-1 Liverpool
❗❗| 51’ Huge Chance!! Lucas Digne with another fine ball puts in Marcus Rashford who charges at goal and gets his shot in with Alisson nowhere but Konate clears off the line
🗒️ | Liverpool have huffed and puffed in the last few minutes, a few corners come to nothing before a weak shot from Szoboszlai and an easy save for Emi
💥 | 60’ Jota’s shot lands on top of the bar
🥅 | 61’ Goal, 2-2, (Liverpool), Trent Alexander-Arnold
🗒️ | More ridiculous good fortune for Liverpool as a lucky bounce and deflection off Ollie Watkins allows a meandering Salah to get possession before passing to Alexander-Arnold who shoots wildly but it’s deflected past Emi Martínez off Tyrone Mings. Unbelieveably lucky.
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Andrés García, Sub on, Matty Cash
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Marcus Rashford, Sub on, Jacob Ramsey
🔁 | 67’ Sub off, Marco Asensio, Sub on, Donyell Malen
💥 | 69’ Nunez misses an open goal
🗒️ | If Villa had a season like 2023-24 then I seriously doubt they’d be behind Liverpool in the table, the visitors are a really overrated side, sitting atop the table due to a lack of competition and not their own endeavours
❗❗| 71’ Huge Chance!! Alisson needs a lucky save off his chest to prevent Donyell Malen restoring Villa’s lead.
🆘 | 71’ Bizarrely the linesman had put up his flag despite no Villa player being even close to being offside, very strange
🗒️ | 75’ Outstanding reading of the game from Emi Martínez who rushes from goal with incredible acceleration and simply picks the ball off the feet of Nunez. Villa really should win this.
🔁 | 78’ Sub off, Lucas Digne, Sub on, Ian Maatsen
🗒️ | 78’ Morgan Rogers on a charge finds Donyell Malen and Liverpool kick it out in panic for a corner
🗒️ | 79’ Corner cleared, another corner won, Villa pushing and pushing
🗒️ | 81’ Villa’s latest corner cleared by Alisson who aimlessly hoofs the ball up the park to relieve the pressure
⚽ | 82’ Goal!, 3-2, Jacob Ramsey
🆘 | 82’ Linesman flags for offside, very very close, that’ll need VAR
🎥 | 82’ VAR Checks and confirms offside but that was hairline, Liverpool have dodged one there
🗒️ | 84’ The Vile Arne Slot is booked for complaining his side are being given a game, literally living off the back of Klopp, no-one believes this is your team Slot.
🔁 | 86’ Sub off, John McGinn, Sub on, Lamare Bogarde
🗒️ | 88’ Liverpool have a corner… so so easy for Villa and Emi Martínez
🗒️ | 90’+2 All Villa as Matty Cash’s delivery is hacked behind for a corner
❗❗| 90’+3 Huge Chance!! Tyrone Mings plays in Morgan Rogers who hits it over, should have been the winner
❗| 90’+4 Chance! Alisson desperate save from Matty Cash’s shot
❗❗| 90’+5 Huge Chance!! Donyell Malen should deliver a fully deserved win for Villa but his shot, excellent though it is, is just milimetres past the post with Alisson beaten
🗒️ | Villa so unlucky not to get the three points against the leaders
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 2-2 Liverpool