Interesting game, this. Anything but a win, and the word ‘crisis’ will be bandied about again. However, it’s a game where momentum needs to be continued.
Aston Villa have yet to concede a headed goal in the Premier League this season, and are known to be one of the very best set-piece teams around.
Villa have just had a pretty good hiding at Arsenal, and now one day less to recover. Their game is very much about high-tempo, so this may be a good time to catch them. But the Reds’ confidence is not fully restored just yet; even a flukey win at Villa Park, and it could start to return in serious fashion.
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If you lose your job, your marriage is more likely to fail. That’s what a vicious cycle is. One event feeds negatively into another. It perfectly sums up why teams slide down the table in football; but it doesn’t have to be a permanent reverse, and this, I fear, is the panic of most fans. Hence the hysteria.
This is an unedited version of the piece www.liverpoolfc.tv commissioned on the past decade.
Time for the players to stand up and be counted, and for some of the star names to be a bit less petulant and focus their energies in the right way.
Below are the results of the Relative Transfer System (©) I devised for Dynasty. The idea was to take all transfers as a % of the British record of the day, so that I could compare the spending of all eight Liverpool managers since 1959.
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