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- Aston Villa – Liverpool 7-2 (4-1)
It wasn’t just Manchester United that was going to have a tough day at work tonight. Liverpool conceded seven goals and ultimately lost 7-2 to Aston Villa, who played very well at home.
An Ollie Watkins hat trick and two goals from Aston Villa’s golden boy Jack Grealish helped secure the Birmingham club’s wild victory.
– Brilliant of Villa, but what happens to Liverpool? This is embarrassing, Jamie Carragher tells Sky Sports and continues:
– This must be one of the worst defensive performances I have ever seen. Number of opportunities that Villa has also had. What happens? It was a brilliant match for Aston Villas.
It helped little that Mohamed Salah scored two goals for the visitors. Aston Villa thus achieves a resounding victory and ascends to a second place in the Premier League.
Loss of the guardian
Only four minutes had passed when Watkins made his first. Liverpool’s substitute goalkeeper Adrián made a mistake and gave Villa captain Jack Grealish a chance to serve his forward, who could put the ball in with ease.
Just 20 minutes later, Watkins was back in front. The 24-year-old cut from the corner of the penalty area and narrowed 2-0 behind a hopeless Adrian.
Mohamed Salah kept Liverpool in the game when he reduced with a strong shot to the corner ten minutes later, but John McGinn tied just after when he shot from about 20 yards. The ball passed through Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk cap and into the net.
Five minutes before the break, Watkins completed his true hat-trick when he stabbed 4-1 from close range.
Target match
Magicians-realists
The hosts did not go there. Ross Barkley was brought to Villa earlier this week on loan from Chelsea and decided to celebrate by scoring 5-1 after 55 minutes. The Englishman’s shot passed through Liverpool defender Trent-Alexander Arnold.
Salah put in his second at night five minutes later in an exquisite way, but it didn’t help much.
For Jack Grealish and his teammates they were unstoppable against last year’s great champions. After 66 minutes of play, Grealish’s post passed through Fabinho and scored. Ten minutes later and a quarter of an hour before the end, he elegantly scored 7-2 when he arrived alone with Adrián.
Although Watkins came within inches of scoring the hosts’ eighth goal just before the end, 7-2 was also the end result of what probably sneaks into the history books as a true Premier League classic and one of the results. most sensational ever.
