Liverpool 3-0 Villa – Much To Learn After Hosts Comfortable Anfield Win.
These are the good times to be an Aston Villa supporter. If it?s the worst that we?re disappointed in failing to take points at Anfield, albeit something to certainly be improved upon, then things aren?t that bad.
One daren?t peer into the reactionary world of social media to gauge rational opinion. Whilst it might exist in some quarters, it is drowned out by the slurry of immediacy and a modern fad expectation that winning every week is both the norm and the measure.
LIVERPOOL 3-0 VILLA
This was by no means a good Villa performance. We were second best; annoyingly so. Crucially, the telling moments will be reflected upon as unforced errors or simple glaring gulfs in class that as a football club we are seeking to close.
There were also moments of misfortune. Which is no-one?s fault (by the way). That is not to merely apply Steve Bruce-isms to performances that should have been better either. Sometimes, VAR doesn?t scrutinise the minutiae of a player lurking in the ?keeper’s eyeline, or those times we succumb to an unfortunate own goal.
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Emery and Villa remain very much a side in transition, but despite this defeat, on the ascendency.
The measures of our improvement are not to be made against Hibernian.
Indeed, they are not Everton nor Burnley, against which we might describe our recent victories as ?comfortable?. Our tests come against sides who have consistently comp...
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