5 Past Villa!

Liverpool 5 Aston Villa 0
Kuyt 8, Riera 33, Gerrard pen 40, 50, pen 65

5 goals past Martin O Neil's men and most importantly, we managed to capitalize on the the slip of Manchester United defeat at Craven Cottage. Liverpool knew that they needed to win to close the gap to 1 point if they got 3 points against Aston Villa and they did the job brilliantly.

Scoring 5 goals is always pleasing to see and Captain Stevie added 3 more to his total tally of goals this season. 2 well-taken penalties and a placement freekick just outside the area. Dirk Kuyt and Albert Riera scoring the first 2 goals.

Knowing that both Chelsea and Manchester United dropping points the day before, it's so crucial for Rafa's men to win and made sure we got the 3 points we desperately need. Somehow, it's rather rare to see the other 2 giants dropping points on the same weekend. We have to keep on the pressure and you could see the confidence in the Liverpool team now.



Scoring 4 goals against Real Madrid, another 4 against Man United and now, 5 goals thrashing of Aston Villa, Liverpool's goal difference has improved massively. This could prove to be a essential factor as the title race may go to the wire.

I can understand Rafa's frustrations even though we won convincingly at Anfield. We took our foot off the gas once we got the 5 goals and I thought we could have gone more adventurous and score more against 10 men. It's important for us to keep it going and both our feet on the ground as we know, we are still second and we did not win anything yet.



Special praise for Albert Riera, who scored a wonderful volley second goal for the Anfield faithfuls. Played superbly and creating chances throughout the game. A typical winger you would love to have in the game. I was kind of disappointed that he started really well in the beginning, but later on, form dipped a little. But I'm really glad to see him playing to his potential again, cutting in and out of defenders, delivering beautiful crosses into the box. Hopefully, he can keep it going and constantly producing performances like that day against Villa.

1 point above us, with the leaders with a game in hand. Anything still can happen, and it's important for us to win every game, pressuring Alex Ferguson's men as you will never know what will happen at the end of May. Who knows?

You'll Never Walk Alone..

Dull Draw At Villa Park

Aston Villa 0 Liverpool 0
AR Man of the Match: Mascherano

A line-up recalling Mascherano and Lucas into the team, Steven Gerrard is out injured and it's interesting to see how Liverpool handled without their captain. Gareth Barry is in the Villa team, wondering why he's not wearing the red jersey after so much transfer saga during the summer. Well, I'm glad to see that he's not.

Rafa fielded a strange line-up in my opinion. With Torres alone up front, putting Robbie Keane on the left hand side of the field. Looking at that, it's very hard for the visitors to get any goals. With Keane and Kuyt's natural position of a striker, I can understand that they can't produce any type of magic or crosses of a pure winger.

Somehow, Liverpool was defensive with 3 defensive holding midfielders, Mascherano, Alonso and Lucas. I felt slightly disappointed by the outlook of the team and do think it's rather negative at Villa Park.

Liverpool didn't create much but did have plenty of possession. On several times during the match, I felt that Rafa seems to be playing safe and just wishes to get a point. Torres went injured and NGog, the new French striker came in. He was decent and had half chances here and there. Robbie Keane was then pushed behind the striker and hence, Lucas was playing on the left wing.

Goodness, it's really hard to understand how can Lucas play on the left. Come on Rafa, how do we score and challenge for the title if you continue to play such systems? Substitutions made me scratched my head too. Fabio Aurelio coming in as a left winger, replacing Dirk Kuyt. Benayoun coming in for Robbie Keane. Didn't you realise, he's replacing potential goal-scorers of the team out? When these changes were made, I knew we couldn't get the 3 points for the day. There's no much support and match winners left on the pitch.

With Chelsea dropping points with Tottenham at home, it's a good opportunity to get above them and be top of the table. Once again, Liverpool has never be able to do it, dropping points alongs with them.

The league is a long journey, still, in such a competitive league, we have to capitalise on every chance to close up or even extend leads in any parts of the season. Rafa, I've the utmost faith in you and I still believe you can be the one delivering the 19th title for us.

Up next, Manchester United.

You'll Never Walk Alone..

Steven Gerrard Gives Reds A Flying Start

Aston Villa 1 Liverpool 2
Barry, 85(pen) - Laursen, 31(og), Gerrard, 87

The opening match of the season. Expectations, hopes, comments are just some happening every season. As usual, Liverpool is also those who really needs to live up with it. They started the journey last night, at Villa Park.

With the new away strip, Liverpool came up on top and dominated most of the game. With Gerarrd and Alonso in the middle, Villa didn't trouble much in the first half. Instead, we managed to get a goal.

Laursen's Own Goal


Torres' shot was well-saved by the keeper, and credit to Kuyt, he didn't give up and kept going, causing Laursen deflecting the ball into his own net.

Villa came up in the second half. Probably due to Martin O Neil's half time talk. They were faster on the ball and caused several problems. Liverpool defence was unable to clear the ball on many occasions and eventually, Villa equalised.



Jamie Carragher was the culprit with a handball offence. He was awesome the entire game except for that moment.

Fortunately, Carragher's mistake was being covered up by fellow teammate, Steven Gerrard. Took the ball just outside the penalty area, causing a freekick from Petrov.
Up step Gerrard, and the rest is history.



What else can I say about Gerrard's quality? He's definitely going to improve and lead us to more victories.

On the whole, we deserved the win. However, there are much rooms for improvements for the team. Next home game will be the titans clash with Chelsea. We need to play better and be more clinical against the Blues.

A good 3 points in the bag and the journey continues..

You'll Never Walk Alone..

A Poll Is Up!

I've created a poll just below the tagboard. I've selected some games of this season and wish to know what you guys think about your game of the season. Please start voting! Thank you for your support.

Liverpool Vs Chelsea
Champions League Semi-final 2nd Leg 06/07



Liverpool Vs Chelsea
English Premiership





Liverpool Vs Arsenal
English Premiership



Liverpool Vs PSV
Champions League Quarter Final 1st Leg



Liverpool Vs Aston Villa
English Premiership







Liverpool Vs Barcelona
Champions League Last 16 First Leg



I will show the results after 2 weeks. Thanks guys!

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