The Liverpool Offside - Premier League Coverage: Aston Villa vs. Liverpool, Sunday, February 14thZeppeline, Trinken, & Pink Badeshortshttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/51345/ltos-fav.png2016-02-15T15:45:54+00:00http://liverpooloffside.sbnation.com/rss/stream/107511092016-02-15T15:45:54+00:002016-02-15T15:45:54+00:00A Coutinho/Sturridge Highlight Video
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<p>Phil + Danny = Magic</p> <p><a href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/epl/players/141788/daniel-sturridge" class="sbn-auto-link">Daniel Sturridge</a> and <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/epl/players/164129/philippe-coutinho" class="sbn-auto-link">Philippe Coutinho</a> are <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/epl/teams/liverpool" class="sbn-auto-link">Liverpool's</a> two most important and talented players. I don't really think this can be debated, especially after their performance against <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/epl/teams/aston-villa" class="sbn-auto-link">Aston Villa</a> on Sunday. The two were reunited once again after both have dealt with injury issues all season. The chemistry between them is apparent for everyone to see. This video does a great job of highlighting it:</p>
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<p>The dynamic duo were up to their old tricks against Villa making it tough on their back line all match with their movement. Liverpool's first goal of the match was a direct result of the two's work as Coutinho found Sturridge with a perfect cross to head home. It was a sign of things to come as the partnership between the two dynamic players was dangerous throughout their time on the pitch together.</p>
<p>Liverpool need both players healthy and in-form to have consistent success this season. Now that both are back, perhaps we'll get to see the real Liverpool take flight under Jurgen Klopp.</p>
https://liverpooloffside.sbnation.com/liverpool-social-facebook-stories-fanshots/2016/2/15/10996188/daniel-sturridge-philippe-coutinho-highlightsRob Usry2016-02-15T09:00:02+00:002016-02-15T09:00:02+00:00Klopp: Sturridge "Brilliant" in First League Start
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<p>Finally, Daniel Sturridge started in the league under his new manager and already has a goal to show for it.</p> <p></p>
<p>It was a moment <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://liverpooloffside.sbnation.com/">Liverpool</a> fans had been waiting for a long, long, <i>long </i>time: Daniel Sturridge's first start under Jürgen Klopp in the league. Despite making a scattering of substitute appearances under the German over the last few months, the forever injured striker hadn't started a match for Liverpool since the 1-1 derby draw against <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://royalbluemersey.sbnation.com/">Everton</a> on October 4, a match helmed by <span>Brendan Rodgers</span> nearly a lifetime ago.</p>
<p>Quite plainly, Liverpool have missed Sturridge and his wiggly, wriggly, wavy arms. After being named to the bench versus West Ham midweek and clocking his first minutes in over two months as a substitute, Klopp was finally ready to stark his glass man and was deeply pleased by the results.</p>
<p>"Of course, we need the goals of Daniel and he needs the goals - that's clear," <a target="_blank" href="http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/jurgen-klopp-daniel-sturridge-real-10891134">Klopp said</a> after the match in a bit of a stating-the-obvious moment. "But for me it is not [just about being] a striker, he can score of course, but how in tune he is with the team, his movements. He's a real striker, that's really good to see.</p>
<p>"Today it was brilliant, you saw he was not too happy when he came off - everything was ok and it was not like he gave a sign or something - but I think it made sense to put him out after 60-something minutes. It was ok, it was perfect for him and hopefully he will be available for the next game too."</p>
<p>For the past few months there have been concerns that Sturridge's head hasn't been in the game, ranging from him being too soft on his own injuries to him just not having enough passion for the game. That Sturridge, like former teammate Luis Suarez, seemed unhappy at being substituted -- despite all the perfectly reasonable reasons why he was eventually taken out -- should demonstrate to his doubters that despite any caution being taken over his injuries, in Sturridge Liverpool still have a player with an immense hunger for the game.</p>
<p>Though it's too early to name a team selection for Thursday's contest with Augsburg in Europa League, Klopp's precautions should position Sturridge well to play a major part in the first leg of the two-leg knock out round. Presumably, Sturridge will wrapped up in bubble wrap inside a padded room until a few hours until kick off.</p>
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<p>Liverpool put the sword to Aston Villa while firing up the time machine and taking fans back to the heady days when their forwards mesmerized, their defenders scored from set pieces, and their hamstrings remained untroubled.</p> <blockquote>
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<p class="p1" style="text-align: justify;">The last time Liverpool and Aston Villa met in the league, <span>Brendan Rodgers</span> and <span>Tim Sherwood</span> were at the respective helms, and both managers were feeling the pressure after uninspiring starts to the season. Fast forward to Valentine's Day 2016, and both sides now feature new managers in charge. While neither Jürgen Klopp not Rémi Garde have managed to miraculously transform their squads into world beaters, or even <a href="https://rokerreport.sbnation.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Sunderland</a> beaters for that matter, there have been reasons for both men to be optimistic.</p>
<p class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">The two sides started the contest at Villa Park in bright fashion, with Villa displaying an early willingess to match <a href="https://liverpooloffside.sbnation.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Liverpool's</a> intensity in pressing. For Liverpool fans, a mouthwatering trio of Sturridge, Coutinho and Firmino - arguably the squad's pointiest set of spearheads - provided a hint of things to come, with lots of bright movement and vision, and only an occasional rustiness in the final pass. For the hosts, <span>Carles Gil</span> and Gabriel Agbonlahor supplied early threats to Liverpool's back four without meaningfully troubling Simon Mignolet's goal.</p>
<p class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">After the first quarter of an hour, Coutinho looked to have recalibrated his passing algorithms, and lofted an inch-perfect (not the only time this phrase would be used in connection with Coutinho today) cross to a lurking <span>Daniel Sturridge</span>, who headed past Bunn with ease. <span>Joleon Lescott</span> and <span>Aly Cissokho</span> will have been disappointed with the space they afforded the Liverpool striker, and the grimaces from Villa's defenders would be a portent of further confusion and haplessness.</p>
<p class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">Villa remained unbowed after conceding, continuing to harry Liverpool in the visitor's third, but less than ten minutes after the opening goal, more comedy defending allowed <span>James Milner</span> to double the lead with a free kick from the left that somehow eluded everyone in the box before ending up in the netting. Even if it was against his former club, Milner seemed unsure of whether the goal was worthy of too effusive a celebration, such was the farcical nature of the defending.</p>
<p class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">Now facing a much higher mountain to climb, some of the sting came out of Villa, and Liverpool were allowed to maintain a consistent of degree of pressure on the hosts. For Liverpool fans, the combination of Sturridge, Coutinho and Firmino - quick in thought and deed, always looking to deliver a killing blow - would have brought back memories of the 2013-14 campaign. Thoughts of the disappointing stalemate against Sunderland must have been in some Liverpool players' minds as they refused to take their feet off the pedal, with Coutinho and Firmino taking turns to pickpocket Villa in search of more goals.</p>
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<p class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">Though they kept Liverpool at bay for the remainder of the first half, Villa's disintegration accelerated in the second half, especially after Agbonlahor was forced off, showing signs of distress. Coutinho, left free to roam, put in a man of the match performance, showing off the full array of tricks in his book, finding teammates and testing defenders from the left, from the right, from downtown, and in the box. A third goal was a question of when, not if.</p>
<p class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">It eventually arrived courtesy of more slack possession from Villa. Firmino showed great touch and vision as he eluded his markers and found a surging <span>Emre Can</span>, who no doubt lauched a thousand more tank comparisons as he cannoned the ball past Bunn to effectively end the contest. With a three goal advantage, and despite Gana doing his best to trouble Mignolet by starting a move that ended with the ball pinballing dangerously in Liverpool's box, Klopp opted to return Sturridge to the warm, welcoming safety of the bench.</p>
<p class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">Sturridge's replacement, Divock Origi, was on the pitch for a whopping twenty seconds before he was able to latch on to another inch-perfect Coutinho pass (told you this would happen again) and finished with the sort of calm lethality that has been notably missing from his compatriot <span>Christian Benteke</span>. If this match were a videotape, this would be the point at which "please be kind and rewind" would be rolling across the screen.</p>
<p class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">And Liverpool were certainly rewinding the movie. Despite the six goal demolition of <a href="https://stmarysmusings.sbnation.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Southampton</a> earlier in the season, this was not a Liverpool side recently accustomed to piling it on. But here they were, four goals to the good and still showing a swagger and aggression, albeit against a dismal Villa side, that had not been consistently seen since <i>that season</i>. Most importantly, Liverpool were demonstrating a clinical edge whose absence has been responsible for a slew of dropped points in 2016.</p>
<p class="p2" style="text-align: justify;">Liverpool's defenders were the next to get in on the action, with <span>Nathaniel Clyne</span> adding a fifth amidst a goalmouth scramble (after more good work from Firmino) and Kolo Touré heading past Bunn <i>from a corner</i> for the sixth (a sign of the apocalyse, surely). By the time Benteke was brought on in the 73rd minute, the only remaining question of note in this contest was whether the former Villa star would score against his former team, or whether former Liverpool cult hero Aly Cissokho would be allowed to unleash the Kraken past Mignolet (spoiler alert: neither happened).</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" class="MsoNormal">Villa fans - those who remained - sang loudly for their side as the match wound down to its inevitable denouement. In truth, the final scoreline was as much a reflection of Liverpool's improved (sometimes startlingly so) play as it was an indictment of Villa's collapse. Injuries have played their part in hampering Liverpool's ability to get its best players on the pitch at the same time. The performance today of Sturridge, Coutinho and Firmino will, however, have some Liverpool fans wondering if they are getting a sneak preview of Jürgen Klopp's reboot of the free scoring 2013-14 side. With the resumption of the Europa League campaign just around the corner and a Capital One Cup final at Wembley beckoning, this would be an excellent time for the new look Liverpool to find its feet.</p>
https://liverpooloffside.sbnation.com/2016/2/14/10988670/aston-villa-liverpool-match-recap-analysis-valentines-day-massacresaintgrobian2016-02-14T16:27:05+00:002016-02-14T16:27:05+00:00Aston Villa 0, Liverpool 6: Man of the Match
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<p>With a win against Aston Villa in the books, we want to know how you would rank Liverpool's performers and who your Man of the Match is.</p> <p><a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://liverpooloffside.sbnation.com/">Liverpool</a> took command of the match early and often against a hapless Villa that defended like an episode of the Oprah Winfrey show, giving up goals to almost anyone who fancied one. A six goal rout on the road is always good even if the opposition are bottom of the league and will likely get relegated, and the win will put Liverpool in a good frame of mind ahead of their Europa League tie against Augsburg on Thursday. </p>
<p>Now let us know how you saw things. Clicking the thumbs up button is a vote to move the player up the list-or to help keep them on top. Hitting thumbs down is a vote to push that player closer to the bottom. It's half Man of the Match poll and half player rankings, and we want to use it to find out who you think played well after each Liverpool match and, at the other end, who you'd maybe like to see given the next game off.</p>
<p>At the end of the month we'll go back through the results of that month's Ranker polls to hold a Player of the Month vote. Then, at the end of the season, the monthly results will help to determine The Liverpool Offside's Player of the Season and Young Player of the Season. </p>
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<p>Villa put on spin cycle as Liverpool flex the full might of their attacking ability for the first time this year.</p> <p align="center"><img alt="liverpool blog fc sbn" src="http://cdn1.sbnation.com/images/blog/star-divide.v5e9d7f1.jpg" style="border: 5px solid white;"></p>
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<p><b>Aston Villa 0</b> <br><b>Liverpool 6</b> <i>Sturridge 16', Milner 25', Can 59', Origi 63', Clyne 65', Toure 71'</i></p>
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<b>Pre-game Thoughts:</b> Nothing like a last minute winner to kick off this slate of Valentine's Day, eh? Let's hope Aston Villa are interested in giving Sakho and his daughter Aida some belated birthday gifts by shipping a few goals. To a guy we like to call Daniel Sturridge, perhaps? JON FLANAGAN!<br><br>
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<div align="justify">All white errythang kits and Furrinho as the attacking trifecta--today was already a good day.<br><br>
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<div align="justify">Crisp passing and movement to start with Milner pushed up wide right and Hendo-Can in a double pivot. On paper, that is giving all of the front six their most natural roles.<br><br>
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<div align="justify">Henderson just fired a knee-high heat seeking missile to get the ball between defenders and to Roberto Firmino. The Brazilian cushions his touch into space, and away from his mark, while reading the subsequent tackle coming on the next touch, and so decides to flick it up in the air to himself calmly, over the defender's swinging leg, and to a first time pass to a teammate. <i>Sploosh.</i><br><br>
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<div align="justify">Remi Garde has gone for the happy, stress-free midfield of Idrissa Gueye, Leandro Bacuna-matata, and Kieran "Everything is Awesome" Westwood. Lets see how that works out for him, Cotton.<br><br>
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<b>GOAL</b> <i>Daniel Sturridge 16'</i> DANCE..<br><br>
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<div align="justify">45th goal in Sturridge's 75th game played. The ability to cut through the noise of burgeoning Villa possession with a clinical goal is a dynamic that Redkind has been just so thirsty for this season it's not even funny.<br><br>
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<div align="justify">Suffice to say Bobby looks a lot happier picking his triangles alongside Phil and Dan.<br><br>
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<b>GOAL </b><i>James Milner 25' </i>Get this: a goal from a well delivered ball in that is aided on its goalward path by terrible set piece defending<i>, </i>only the team being scored on isn't Liverpool, and the guy delivering the set piece is Hamez Milner.<br><br>
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<div align="justify">Can, Moreno, and Hendo combine to pinch Westwood's possession along the sidelines, springing Firmino to find Clyne on the break, who swings a deep one to the left channel for Milner, who heads back to an arriving Hendo to get a strike on goal. That, ladies and germs, is some <i>muhfuggegenpressing</i>.<br><br>
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<div align="justify">Roberto Firmino is the Charlie Turna of this Jurrassic 5 attack today. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeN9c2GYJkk" target="_blank">He's gonna say this one time for ya, and that's his word</a>. <br><br>
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<div align="justify">Granted, their skills are being tested about as much as an orca in a salmon farm, but the Hendo-Can double pivot is doing a good job taking turns covering the front of the box when the other goes wide on the mark. Consistently doing subtle things like that is what separates a quality double pivot from a headless chicken double pivot. <a target="_blank" href="https://media1.giphy.com/media/1ktwfTjwaQzde/200_s.gif">Mmmmmmm, chicken tenders</a>.<br><br>
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<div align="justify">There is an absurd amount of alternating, compounding, accentuating off ball movement going on between Studge and Bobby.<br><br>
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<b>Half-time:</b> Welcome to your first choice attacking unit, Herr Klopp. If these lads stay fit for the rest of the season, Liverpool may not need that cup win to secure European football next year. Our half-time team talk includes some wake-up blend washing down pancakes, maple chicken schmausages, and a fried egg over-easy. Noms.<br><br>
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<div align="justify">Second verse same as the first with the lineups, and Bacuna gets an shot off that Mignolet spills before covering back up. Good times bad times.<br><br>
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<div align="justify">A lot of babies are going to be conceived today. That's not a Valentine's Day joke, just an honest assessment of Phil's outside of the boot ball to spring Moreno there.<br><br>
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<b>GOAL</b> <i>Emre Can</i> <i>59'</i> Emre Can presses a Villain in possession, Firmino keeps his head up on the break, buying time for the big German Adonis to pick himself up, and receiving the bass back from Bobby. Then he cordially invites Bunn to collect the game ball from the back of his own net. Press to attack, rinse, repeat.<br><br>
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<b>GOAL</b><i> Divock Origi 63'</i> Daniel who? Philippe makes us all feel like Spring has sprung with that curling release down the sideline, and Divock makes his fresh legs count as he gets his sixth goal in all comps, and second in the league.<br><br>
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<b>GOAL </b><i>Nathaniel Clyne 65' </i>Villa's fans stage their own walkout after a steaming pile of what passes as defending at Villa Park these days presents Clyney with a goal.<br><br>
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<b>GOAL </b><i>Kolo Toure 71' </i>KOLOLOLOLOL!!!!<br><br>
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<div align="justify">S-Scott Sinclair? That Rui Costa 2.0 curler that just spanked off the cornerpost of Mignolets goal was struck by Scott Sinclair?<br><br>
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<div align="justify">Stop us if you've heard this one before, but Liverpool calmly head clear from a set piece swung into the box. What's that? Oh, you actually <i>haven't </i>heard that one before? Huh. Guess that's news, then.<br><br>
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<p align="justify">We'll be back shortly to take an in-depth look at everything that happened in today's game with the full recap. Until then, let us know your take on the ups and downs of the match in the comments, and if you haven't already, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sbnation.com/account/setup?community_id=373">join the community on the Liverpool Offside,</a> where we'll have full coverage and lively in-game discussion for every match this season.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">And then there were 3!! Emre Can ❤️ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LFC?src=hash">#LFC</a> <a href="https://t.co/pWIoJl1Bom">pic.twitter.com/pWIoJl1Bom</a></p>— ✯ Tingeling ✯ (@SomeoneYouL0ve) <a href="https://twitter.com/SomeoneYouL0ve/status/698890385662328832">February 14, 2016</a>
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<p>Liverpool have a three-goal lead over Aston Villa away from home in the Premier League. Emre Can is the third goal scorer on the day with this low blast. It's a good day!</p>
https://liverpooloffside.sbnation.com/liverpool-social-facebook-stories-fanshots/2016/2/14/10988982/emre-can-powerful-strike-makes-it-3-0-to-liverpoolRob Usry2016-02-14T14:35:26+00:002016-02-14T14:35:26+00:00James Milner Makes it 2-0
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<p>All skill, mate. No luck involved at all. They don't ask how they go in as long as they go in, I suppose.</p>
https://liverpooloffside.sbnation.com/liverpool-social-facebook-stories-fanshots/2016/2/14/10988810/james-milner-scores-the-most-james-milner-goal-everRob Usry