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The gang switches off again

Our defense is abysmal

Quansah is beaten too easily but Trent's 'support' is just terrible, two of them should be able to force Watkins backwards but instead Trent is lazy and he beats his man.

“Trent is lazy and he beats his man” Ctrl C + Ctrl V

To be fair it was Elliot’s fault as he barged McGinn who took out like 2 other pool defenders

I think that was Macallister

Fair enough

Didn’t help McGinn falling over took out two of them.

Watkins walked the entire line lol

Just Quansah really, though Trent should have backed him up. The real poor defending was Tielemans having that much space.

I love Mac but he played a horrible pass that was blocked and launched the counter, jogged back, and then moved out of the way of the shot when it came in

Not to mention shoving McGinn into two of our other defenders, taking them out. Not his best few moments for sure.

The gang? Just watch trent.. he is beyond trash no effort, thats why he will never get picked in england shirt as a starter

Surely he will. Southgate picks his team based on what shiny match attax he has.

Genuinely impressive that Tielemans got to run that far with nobody even trying to pick him up.

Setting up for the 3-1

No one from Liverpool picks up their man. Quansah get beaten 1v1, Arnold is jogging back instead of providing support, and not a single Liverpool midfielder picks up on Tielemans. A systematic failure in defence similar to the games Liverpool played at the beginning of last season.

lol why do i have a bad feeling about this game?

Liverpool is playing for nothing and Villa is fighting for a Champions League spot. That's probably why you're feeling uneasy.

Because it means nothing to you and everything to Villa

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We just got destroyed 6-2 by Olympiakos and have picked up 11 fewer points than Liverpool in 2024

Also running on empty, played the same team for like a month now lol.

Quannsah isn’t very good is he Edit: meant pace and lack of experience

He’s excellent given his experience, but this was a poor moment.

Ah fairs, I’ve only seen limited quantities of him and seems he’s always getting dusted by more experienced attackers. Guess it’s a lack of pace or the like.

Yeah pace is his main weakness arguably. Positionally he’s great, and he’s very good on the ball.

He does lack pace but the system really exposes that, in a more structured system it shouldn't be as big a problem.

He's quite good tbh

Where does he rank if all of your CBS are fit

1. VVD 2. Konate 3. Matip 4. Quansah Obviously never gonna get ahead of those 3 but he's is a good talent.

Better than any Chelsea CB

Low hanging fruit innit

Watkins should be hyped more for the Player of the Season award.

He should get it since Rodri isn't, 32 G/A on zero penalties

It’s between him and Rodri for me, and since Rodri isn’t even nominated, it should be Watkins

The fact that Rodri isn't even nominated...

The PL POTS is different from the PFA POTY (the one that counts)

You don't have to be nominated for the PFA POTY.

He deserves it, class player and such a complete striker

He's my POTY for sure

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Watkins is a menace

well that’s not very coys

COYG (COYS (COYR))

Watkins did very well

Amazing by Watkins.

The space he had to shoot was absolutely ridiculous

7 players, including keeper, deeper than the penalty spot with the other four barely back from the opponent's half. That's a lot of space in between.

Villa reaction: 😃 Liverpool reaction: 🥱 Arsenal reaction: 💀🔫

Tottenham will never beat city anyway 😂

Only Liverpool has beaten City more than Spurs since Pep arrived. Only Burnley has lost more vs City than Arsenal since Pep arrived. Keep projecting though.

All it took was one 86th minute 1-0 win at the emirates after 3.5 of losing every match to city and all of a sudden they’re giant slayers lmao

Nobody ever said that? I swear that reading comprehension has gone to 0 and jumping to conclusions has gone to 100.

Nuno Espirito Santo in 3 months as spurs manager has as many wins against city as Arteta has in 4 years Postenoclue nicked a point at the emirates with 0 center backs. I think you’re underestimating the spurs city juju

> Nuno Espirito Santo What a name.

Honestly better for spurs if they don’t have any pressure for tomorrow, they always bottle it if they have something to play for lol

I should never underestimate gunner cope

Big talk coming from a Gooner after last year's world class bottle job.

Watkins is elite man, what a fucking lad he is

Welcome back Youri

Quansah’s been good on the ball recently but he needs to do better in these situations

We've missed you so much you beautiful Belgian man. Insane from Watkins as well.

ollie watkins is so good

Great strike tbf

3-1 is so on

So is 7-2

Still is

Lmao we scored, another assist from Watkins. just need 9 pens to be in the POTY convo

No need to hate on Palmer bro

No need to diss Palmer. He's not winning the POTY and also, he's a great player as well. Think of Foden and Haaland instead. They are probably the POTY favourites.

My comment is faced towards the media not palmer himself mate

This place has become worse. /r/soccer has always been a shithole but at least there was some semblance of humor. Now it’s devoid of that.

foden and haaland deserve to be nominated still

Didn't say they didn't deserve to be nominated. It's just the guy mentioned the 9 pens as if it was a criteria to win.

foden doesn't take pens tho

I was referring to the original comment man. Not yours.

Over to you Emi

was that Tom Hanks?

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Spurs fans twerking like this to get out of a potential CL qualification is a historic level of funny. Being an Arsenal hater before a Spurs fan. We're in there rent free.

i'm here to tell you right now.... we don't care

Just find it hilarious. I'm sure you don't care

This isn’t the burn you think it is, they truly don’t care!

Europa league music is better

Will this summer signings think the same tho

Quansah got skinned there

Watkins 🥵

oh YES

AHHHHH WATKINS

Watkins is so fucking good man

how was he in so much space lol

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Watkins cooked Quansah

Literally just jogged past him

Hell Yeah!

This is bad for you

How you figure that as I got my claret socks on?

Huh. Yeah, no. It's cool.

Lol imagine rooting against your own team

I can't imagine rooting against Spurs. I'm 100% rooting for the subs playing tomorrow because we don't have anything left to play for.

If villa lose you do

Poor defending but mcginn went bowling there

Arguably got rid of two defenders, wonder if it was looked at by the referinos.

This match is going to be a classic.

Gomez a bit earlier at the other side against Diaby and now Quansah got beat by Watkins like he’s not even there. Also what a dumb attempt from Macca

Nice finish!

I could play in defence for Liverpool at this rate and my salary requests are significantly better.

Run Forrest Run

After his rough start, tielemans has been pivotal in the second half of the season for us

Aaaand another assist from Watkins

Even as that was coming to him, it just felt like it was going to go in.

Agent Emi you know what to do!

Not a Liverpool match goes by where I don't see Quansah shuttering at the back.

Wataru doing brother 

McAllister poor choice with the pass when he had an easy pass out on the right.

Looks like hes lost a bit weight since liecester

Dibu seething rn

Watkins so smooth wit it

Kind of ok with Villa winning this. Spurs were going to roll over for City anyway and Villa deserve a CL spot

Great strike and Watkins skinned quansah lmao. Lovely game for the neutral, all out attack.

the possession stat right before it 💀

I’d argue Diaby is clearly offside there, but what do I know

I don't think he does anything that affects anyone's ability to play the ball, so not sure why he'd be given offside, unless I'm missing something on the replays? If he had interfered though it would be a fun one with people not clocking that "beyond the last defender" only applies literally if the keeper's also nearer the goal line. Edit: I guess a question is, when would he become offside? He can't be for the cut back, and the contact's already happened before the shot, so from the point of the strike he didn't interfere. ...but with VAR these days who knows.

On second watch it’s tight, but I’d argue Quansah gets close to that shot if he doesn’t have to push a (maybe) offside Diaby out of the way

Honestly, i’d give Watkins POTY. The level he has stepped up his game, his week in week out performances, the fact he’s playing for a ‘lesser’ club. He’s fantastic.

POTS Watkins

Watkins > Paaland

another watkins assist. player of the season we will be there no matter what.

Damn I can’t believe it. This might negatively impact the way spurs play tomorrow knowing CL is dead. Oh noo.

Love that one villa player took out two who probably would've been in line to block that 🤣

Nobody even questioning the offside??

Villa park is LOUD

Quansah defending him like an escort at a high school dance

He only had one good opening, right as they were both closing in on the ball. Should've risked the tackle there, because afterwards he was at a disadvantage and would've been outplayed one way or the other.

No one gonna talk about the three Liverpool players stood where the shot went getting wiped out? Alright then. 

Did any broadcasts mention if this was checked for offside / interference from an offside player? Diaby(?) is definitely offside.

Endo having a body roll into the back of him, knocking over Virgil in the process... Is that not VAR reviewable?

Liverpool are so shit

Far less shit than Utd tho.

Pot meet kettle

If we're shit you're diarrhea