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Aston Villa 5-2 Liverpool
I'm not sure I really follow that argument. Are defenders fuleed by abuse or something?
Ross Barkley is in down the middle again. He'll get some goals this season if he keeps this up.
Summary
Aston Villa thump champions Liverpool 7-2 just hours after Tottenham hammer Man Utd 6-1
Anger, laughter and shock were just some of the emotions on an incredible night
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get involved Get Involvedpublished at 20:40 British Summer Time 4 October 2020
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Darren W: I don’t believe these results and scores would be happening under normal circumstances... no crowds have to be having a massive impact in equaling things up. It has to be.. the amount of goals and attacking football/defensive mistakes just do not happen
Rate the playerspublished at 20:38 British Summer Time 4 October 2020
Aston Villa 5-2 Liverpool
Image source, .A few fives, maybe a few twos? Rate the players by heading over here.
'You just never know'published at 20:38 British Summer Time 4 October 2020
Aston Villa 5-2 Liverpool
Clinton Morrison
Former Crystal Palace striker on BBC Radio 5 LiveIt's a great finish. It's a great touch from Mohamed Salah, he doesn't even wait and move the ball, it's just a great finish into the bottom corner.
Is it still game on? You just never know.
SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 62 mins
Aston Villa 5-2 Liverpool
Joe Gomez has indeed been hooked. On comes Curtis Jones so Fabinho should go back into defence.
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Gomez has looked way off the pace tonight. At fault for 4 of the goals. TAA not much better. Poor positioning between them alongside the insistence on this high line has killed Liverpool.
Callum, London
GOAL - Aston Villa 5-2 Liverpoolpublished at 20:35 British Summer Time 4 October 2020
Mo Salah (60 mins)
This is like a game of NBA Jam. Relentless, end-to-end attacking as Mo Salah has his second! What an excellent finish too, characteristically, collecting a pass from Roberto Firmino and firing in.
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I think for the health and safety of everyone concerned it's a good job he isn't.
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Shame Roy Keane isn't in the sky studio tonight...be difficult for Jurgen to defend this...
Ben in London
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Aston Villa 5-1 Liverpool
Villa finished 64 (Sixty-four) points behind Liverpool last season.
64!
'Nobody would have predicted this'published at 20:33 British Summer Time 4 October 2020
Aston Villa 5-1 Liverpool
Clinton Morrison
Former Crystal Palace striker on BBC Radio 5 LiveThis is a shock result, it's a huge result. Nobody would have predicted this score.
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Aston Villa 5-1 Liverpool
How big is this? Well, Liverpool have conceded five goals in a PL game for only the fourth time ever, and first since September 2017 vs Man City.
Postpublished at 20:32 British Summer Time 4 October 2020
Aston Villa 5-1 Liverpool
Clinton Morrison
Former Crystal Palace striker on BBC Radio 5 LiveIt's game over. It takes a wicked deflection and there isn't much that Adrian can do about that. Ross Barkley deserves that.
If Alisson is in goal, he might save that, because he's bigger than Adrian.
GOAL - Aston Villa 5-1 Liverpoolpublished at 20:30 British Summer Time 4 October 2020
Ross Barkley (55 mins)
Ok, this really is INCREDIBLE now! What a day of Premier League football and Ross Barkley has a goal on his debut that he has been threatening all evening!
That will be a third assist of the game for Jack Grealish too, exchanging passes with Barkley before the former Everton man takes aim from 20 yards.
It takes a deflection off (I think) Diogo Jota and spins, loops over the dive of Adrian and finds the back of the net.
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Aston Villa 4-1 Liverpool
Liverpool have had 73% of the possession and the same number of shots and shots on target as Villa. But...
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It might be entertaining but are all these extreme scorelines due to the absence of fans? There seems to be a trend for teams to capitulate which never used to happen. Or is it simply the teams have forgotten how to defend?
Nick the bemused
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Aston Villa 4-1 Liverpool
That's excellent as well from Ollie Watkins, the first Villa player to score a treble against Liverpool in 88 years, as he holds it up, flicks it over the head of Joe Gomez and wins the foul. He's a fairly complete forward.
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Aston Villa 4-1 Liverpool
Diogo Jota looks to get away again down the Liverpool left but he's fouled Matty Cash in the process. That's five minutes ticked off for Villa fans.
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Aston Villa 4-1 Liverpool
Diogo Jota and then Andrew Robertson both get free on the left but neither can find a team-mate with a cross.
'Time for Minamino to step up'published at 20:23 British Summer Time 4 October 2020
Aston Villa 4-1 Liverpool
Clinton Morrison
Former Crystal Palace striker on BBC Radio 5 LiveIt's time for Takumi Minamino to step up. It took time, but this season, I know he hasn't been given the opportunities, but it's games like this that you need your signings to step up and it's an opportunity for him.