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DOMINIC KING AT ANFIELD: Don't get them angry. Surely they should have known that? All
Unai Emery would have wanted was for his players to turn
Anfield into a doctor's waiting room‚ filled with silence and tension‚ but instead they poked the bear. The game that
Liverpool dared not lose became the game they gleefully won‚ fuelled by the energy of a crowd that used a combination of intense pressing‚ curious refereeing decisions and needless time-wasting to restore its equilibrium.
Villa walked wide-eyed into a trap and paid the price. Here was an exorcism of Wednesday's
League Cup elimination against
Crystal Palace‚ when
Slot's team selection had put him under the microscope. Back at near full strength‚
Liverpool moved back up to third‚ nearly at full throttle‚ thanks to goals from
Mo Salah and
Ryan Gravenberch.