In the historical encounters, Liverpool has only lost one of the last 11 home games against Villa, and Liverpool has an absolute advantage in the remaining 10 games with 6 wins and 4 draws. In the Premier League, the two sides have met a total of 40 times, with Liverpool having the upper hand with 21 wins, 9 draws and 10 losses.

It can be said that psychologically, Liverpool have a big advantage.

In terms of the starting line-up, Jose continued to start as he was unable to play in the next game against Chelsea due to his avoidance principle.

In addition, a number of young players rotated to start the game, which allowed Villa to set a new record for the lowest average age in the Premier League.

For Liverpool, Suarez returned from the ban and Enrique was absent due to injury, the specific list is as follows:

Goalkeeper: Reina.

Bottom four: Downing, Agger, Skrtel, Glenn Johnson.

Three midfielders: Joe Allen, Lucas, Gerrard.

Three attacking fronts: Chervi, Suarez, Raheem Sterling.

Among them, Happy Boy Sterling is the youngest player in this game except Jose, born on December 8, 94, he is only a few months older than Jose.

With the referee's whistle, the game began, and Anfield Stadium deserved to be one of the most terrifying home stadiums in the Premier League, although the audience was only more than 45,000 people, but the momentum was immense, no less than those stadiums of 60,000 or 70,000 people.

However, today's Villa, under the leadership of Jose, have many differences from the previous Villa, and they play more calmly.

Just two minutes into the game, Villa won a free-kick on the left side of the pitch, Weimann broke through with the ball on the left, only to be brought to the ground by Skrtel's flying tackle.

Bannan was in charge of the free-kick and passed it directly to the middle.

Benteke grabbed the first spot and headed in from 11 yards, but unfortunately it was too straight and was easily confiscated by Reina.

As the saying goes, it's not rude.

Four minutes later, Suarez picked up the ball in the box, but the angle of the shot was blocked, and he had to pass it back to Gerrard.

After Gerrard got the ball, he shot directly at the HLD position in the penalty area, and Jose was pounced on by a hungry wolf to confiscate the ball.

In the games that followed, the two sides exchanged attacks, but most of them did not pose much of a threat, and most of the shots were off target.

In the 27th minute, Downing passed diagonally to the back of the penalty area, and after Chervi chased the ball forward, he passed back to the middle of the penalty area for the first time, and the ball was given to Suarez.

Suarez volleyed in from 14 yards in the box and the ball flew towards the top right of the goal.

The ball was not too fast, and Jose flashed and easily confiscated the ball.

Two minutes later, Villa had a chance to counter-attack.

Holman crossed the ball wide and Benteke volleyed in from 25 yards on the left, the ball hit the grass and bounced into the net.

In the face of the extremely fast ground rebound ball, Reina could only look at the ball and sigh.

It was Benteke's seventh goal of the season.

Interestingly, it was Benteke's goal that put him on Liverpool's radar, and two and a half years later, Liverpool spent more than £40 million to bring him from Villa to Liverpool.

It's a pity that after joining Liverpool, Benteke's performance plummeted, and he transferred to Crystal Palace only a year later.

From Benteke, you can see how important a player's choice of environment is.

After Villa took a 1-0 lead, they began to shrink their formation drastically, and they lowered their posture.

Liverpool went on a frenzied attack on Villa, but a succession of shots were off target and Jose didn't feel much of a threat.

In the 40th minute, Villa fought back quickly.

Weimann's through ball found Benteke, who took the ball and led Skrtel out on the right side of the box, then played a clever back-heel pass to the unguarded Weimann.

In the Liverpool penalty area, from 12 yards, Weiman faced Reina and calmly pushed into the bottom left corner.

The ball went in.

Before half-time, Villa were already 2-0 up, and the Villa fans who followed the team to the Anfield stadium stood up and cheered.

Live chat room.

"Rodgers is really a waste, bringing our army like this, even a relegation team like Villa can bully our army."

"Rogers waste? Would you like to go back to Hodgson? Otherwise, Dalglish will do the same. ”

"No, I think Dortmund's Klopp is very good, invite him here, our army will not worry about it for ten years."

"Think beautifully."

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The game continued, and just before half-time, Liverpool fired in succession, with Glen Johnson shooting wide from distance, and Shelvey hitting the target but being comfortably cleared away by Jose.

Liverpool trailed by two goals at half-time.

Brendan Rodgers made the first substitution after the start of the second half, bringing on Joe Cole for Shelvey.

In the 47th minute, Liverpool got a corner kick opportunity.

The corner kick came out, and there was chaos in the Villa penalty area, and Jose immediately punched the ball into the box with both fists.

Just when the Villa players thought they had broken up Liverpool's attack, the referee's whistle blew and he was seen running quickly into the box and pointing to the 12-yard position.

Penalty kick.

It turned out that when scrambling for a corner, Clark inadvertently brought down Agger, and the referee thought that Clark's action was too big and it was a foul.

Well, who makes the other side the referee?

"I've only heard that Manchester United is the FA's own son, when will Liverpool too?" Someone in the chat room said that, apparently he didn't think Clark's defensive move was foul.

"Wouldn't the referee be allowed to take pity on Lily? As a member of BIG, the ranking has dropped to 10th this season. ”

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Steven Gerrard was in charge of the penalty.

Due to Jose's success rate in saving points before that, Villa's players were not at all worried about being penalized.

Jose, on the other hand, is one of the top 10 penalty kicks in football, with an 83 per cent penalty percentage.

In the Premier League, there are three penalty takers in the top 10 of the new century, Frank Lampard, Sergio Aguero and Steven Gerrard.

Jose has already played Aguero and has the upper hand.

Jose hasn't had a chance to meet Frank Lampard yet, but now he has met Steven Gerrard, and while Gerrard's success rate is behind Sergio Aguero, it doesn't mean that Gerrard's penalty will be easier to save.

Jose took a deep breath and stared intently at Gerrard's every movement, he didn't dare to relax in the slightest.

Gerard also had a serious expression, as the banner of the Red Army, at this moment, he had to stand up.

Gerrard exhaled lightly and then trotted rhythmically towards the ball.

"Top left."

Jose caught Gerrard's shot in the direction of a shot that would normally be impossible to save, and should it be no surprise, Gerrard would pull a goal back for Liverpool.

However, unexpectedly, Gerard meets Jose.

Gerrard's penalty is 3-40 centimeters away from a real dead end. It was these 3-40 centimeters that gave Jose the possibility of a successful save.

With all his might, combined with a timeout, Jose blocked Gerrard's penalty.

The Villa fans cheered immediately.

However, as if anticipating the penalty would be saved, the Liverpool players rushed into the box as Gerrard fired the spot-kick.

Eventually, Jose blocked the ball and rolled to the feet of Glen Johnson.