Liverpool vs Aston Villa
Match pulse
LIVAttacking pressure by 5 minutes
Who won: Liverpool 5-0
Liverpool beat Aston Villa 5-0 on Sunday, March 22, 2009 at Anfield. Goals for Liverpool: Dirk Kuyt (8'), Albert Riera (33') and Steven Gerrard (39' pen, 50', 65' pen).
Play by play
- 94'
There it is! A solid thrashing of Villa sees Liverpool cut the gap on Manchester United to one point and improve their goal difference in the process. There could be life in the title race yet. See you next time.
- 92'
Ashley Young crosses and Reina saves.
- 91'
Craig Gardner gets a yellow for piling in on Agger.
- 90'
Three minutes added...
- 87'
The Villa fans go nuts as they win a corner. Gallows humour kicking in.
- 86'
Ashley Young looks like he can't see the point of carrying on here as he blasts a cross into the stands.
- 84'
Now Agger tries to feed Torres but he'd strayed offside.
- 83'
Ngog tries to feed Torres but the Spaniard had stopped looking for some reason.
- 80'
Gerrard makes way to a rapturous ovation.
- 79'
Pretty glum faces on the VIlla bench as you'd expect as David Ngog prepares to come on.
- 77'
Ashley Young wins a corner..
- 76'
More changes - Agger comes on and Arbeloa is off.
- 73'
Mascherano wants to get in on the party now - he has a decent pop from 25 yards but Guzan holds on well.
- 72'
Riera wins a corner
- 71'
The Kop ring out the tunes as Villa wish the ref would take pity on them and blow his whistle.
- 69'
Nearly six! Riera goes past Milner and cuts it back but Lucas can't get his effort on target.
- 67'
Agbonlahor crosses but Careew can't finish it off with Carragher there for company. Corner.
- 66'
Here come the changes - Alonso is off and Lucas is on.
- 65'
Gerrard scores! 5-0!
- 64'
Reo-Coker is removed as Brad Guzan comes on to go in goal.
- 64'
Oh dear. It goes from bad to worse for Villa, Torres goes clean through and is felled by Friedel, who gets a red card. Penalty, and a chance for Gerrard to notch a hat-trick.
- 60'
As predicted, the game has tailed off dramatically in the last ten minutes.
- 58'
Goal difference could still be important in the title race of course, with Liverpool currently on 28, Chelsea on 32 and Manchester United on 31. Liverpool's about to shoot up to at least 32 one would imagine.
- 57'
Heskey is coming off and Agbonlahor is coming on.
- 56'
Another great chance for Liverpool as Kuyt finds Alonso in the area but his shot is tame and wide.
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