Boss tha.
Yes Villa are poor, but no one else has gone there and made them look quite so sh*te and stuffed them by 6 have they? You can only beat whats in front of you, and then you can beat them easy and make them look like dickheads.
They were on a better run as well having beat Palace and Norwich and drew against Leicester and West Brom in their last 5 premier league games keeping 3 clean sheets in those 4 games, so you can argue that Garde had got them turned round a little prior to yesterday and we did that to them making them look diabolical.
So enjoy it for what it was, when we have our better players available we look a different side altogether, so lets hope we can keep them fit for the rest of the season, there is still lots to play for.
My ratings.
Mignolet.
Didn't have a lot to do but the couple of saves he had to make he did, not under much pressure though, but when are you when the attackers make the game so easy for the back four. 6
Clyne.
Got forward well, the area he ended up in for his goal right in the middle of the 6 yard box showed our intent and showed great awareness from him of the threat. Again not much to judge on going the other way. 7
Moreno.
Better today but as it was an easy defensive day its difficult to judge them on that or praise them too much for it, again is an attacking threat, I believe his final ball will only get better, especially when he has true movement in the box in front of him, still needs a lot of work on it though, but defending against him must be difficult when he goes past you on the overlap at the pace he has, if he can improve that final ball he will be great. 6
Sakho/Toure.
Coped well early on with Agbonlahor who has the pace to worry them but overall a quiet day, Sakho palyed the ball well into midfield as he often does to turn us around and Kolo is a steadying force at his best and the run of games he has had recently he is showing the form of old, he doesn't have the legs anymore so obviously isn't at that level anymore but the run and the games under his belt he has got to the pace of the premier league again. Im pleased form him, he will leave in the summer and im glad he is getting a few run out before he does, got the goal too which was boss for him, got the crowd singing his song. Sakho 6 Kolo 7
Milner.
Another player who will always look better when he is a cog rather than the wheel.. With the players in front of him for him to feed he looks a solid player instead of too much on his shoulders to carry the side which ultimately he doesn't have the quality for. Some good set pieces and is slowly adding some decent numbers to his season stats. 7
Henderson.
The injury is holding him back, you can see he struggles with it on the turn but also in the weight of the passes currently, did some nice things, the rabona a thing of beauty, but needs to shake the injury to have the true impact he can. 6
Can.
Im mixed on him as to whether he can be top quality truth be told, I think he at times looks to have the lot but at times looks to be doing everything at 100mph on reaction because his touch lets him down or his vision doesn't have the picture of everything in his minds eye, as opposed to the Alonso type who looked to have 10 minutes to do everything. Sometimes I think he will be boss and yesterday we got a mix of it all. Nicely taken goal having fallen over in the build up says the lot
I think with the right guidance and maturity he could make it, and if he can add goals to his game which he has the talent to do so he may well bridge that gap a different way. 7
Coutinho
Magic, he has genius vision and when the players who suit his vision are in front of him and make the moves and runs he can pick out he looks like a rolls Royce, I thought he was superb yesterday. 9
Firmino
Is starting to realise he is better than the majority of the players he comes up against, a few foreign lads come over and realise that and start to rip the league up, he is a Suarez light in what he does, maybe his lack of Suarez pace may well keep him below that level ultimately but I think that come next season he will be one of the players of the league. Great workrate, touch and vsion yesterday. 8
Sturridge
So good to have him back, id give a lot to have him fit every week as if he was fit all year hes a 25+ man a season and that makes a difference to any side. What always suprises me is when he comes back after long lay offs is how sharp he is straight away, yesterday again a goal, Villa earlier in the season two, last season West Ham a goal. His movement is world class and creates space for other and allows the vision of a Coutinho and Firmino to shine. Great movement and header for his goal and the touch for a chance just after that their keeper kept out was superb. 8
Subs
Origi
I like this lad, raw but has the lot, has the one thing that is vital in the game today... Pace. Took his goal well and ran the channels great, his movement and pace could be vital as a replacement in games for Sturridge as you will have the same stretching of the back four as Studge gives you, not the finisher of Studge yet but I think he will be very good in a couple of years time, and very handy leading up to that.
Stewart
Very impressed, he could be one from nowhere to have forced himself into a full time squad player, gets around the midfield well, is quick and tenacious. breaks things up very well, can even pick up a snidy card to break up the play. Friom nowhere im very impressed with the lad.
Benteke
His movement was actually good when he came on, but we had shut up shop by the time he did which was unfortunate for him as we had taken off our players who were pulling the strings. Personally I think he lacks pace which is vital in the game now, but as one of four strikers? Maybe
