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Liverpool 0-0 Aston Villa

Liverpool 0-0 Aston Villa

There are cheers from Liverpool fans when Martinez kicks the ball straight out of play... but it becomes apparent he was doing so for Ollie Watkins to get treatment.

The striker ran straight into Ryan Gravenberch from kick-off.

Watkins eventually picks himself up and Liverpool give the ball back to Villa. Strange.

Liverpool 0-0 Aston Villa

Fireworks in the skies tonight. Will we get them on the pitch?

Let's find out!

Time to remember...

Ahead of kick-off, wreaths of poppies have been laid on the pitch, the Last Post is being played and Anfield has fallen silent in remembrance.

Team news reminder

Liverpool: Mamardashvili, Bradley, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson, Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Szoboszlai, Salah, Ekitike, Gakpo.

Subs: Woodman, Pecsi, Gomez, Endo, Kerkez, Wirtz, Chiesa, Nyoni, Ngumoha.

Aston Villa: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Pau, Digne, Kamara, Onana, McGinn, Guessand, Rogers, Watkins.

Subs: Bizot, Maatsen, Lindelof, Mings, Bogarde, Barkley, Sancho, Malen, Broggio.

Salah on brink of record

Mohamed Salah has 275 goals and assists combined in the Premier League for Liverpool (187 goals, 88 assists), one behind the record for a single club, set by Wayne Rooney at Manchester United (183 goals, 93 assists).

Last time out... Villa win

Highlights from the Premier League clash between Aston Villa and Manchester City...

Can Villa make history?

Having beaten Manchester City 1-0 last time out, Aston Villa could become the first team since Leicester’s title-winners in February 2016 to beat Man City and Liverpool in consecutive matches (2-0 vs Liverpool, 3-1 vs Man City). The last side to beat Man City and then Liverpool in that order were Sheffield Wednesday in November/December 1993.

Slot won it with Klopp's team!

Jamie O'Hara clashed with a Liverpool fan after the pair argued over whether or not Arne Slot won the league because he was simply using Jurgen Klopp's team.

Villa deadly from distance

Only Bournemouth (6) have scored more Premier League goals from outside the box this season than Aston Villa (5), with Matty Cash responsible for two of those, making the Villa full-back one of four players with multiple goals from distance this season (also Antoine Semenyo, Danny Welbeck and Moisés Caicedo on two)

Long ball against Liverpool?

Liverpool’s opponents have played 571 long passes against them in the Premier League this season, the most any side have faced, while that works out as 20.5% of their opponents’ passes coming via long passes, also the highest percentage any side has faced.

Slot happy with squad depth

Arne Slot says he's 'completely happy' with Liverpool's squad depth after he faced criticism for fielding a weaker team in the League Cup defeat to Crystal Palace.

Liverpool’s unwanted record

Liverpool have lost their last four Premier League matches, with Leicester in 2016-17 the only reigning champions to lose five in a row. In top-flight history there has been seven occasions a reigning champion has lost five games in a row and three have been Liverpool (in 1906-07, 1923-24 and 1947-48).

'People say I'm using excuses'

Liverpool boss Arne Slot says he's confident Liverpool can be competitive this season despite a poor run of form of one win in their last seven matches in all competitions.

Villa’s amazing turnaround

While no side is on a longer losing run in the Premier League than Liverpool (4), no side is on a longer winning run than Aston Villa (4). The Villans could become the second side in top-flight history to win none of their first five games in a season then win five in a row, after Preston North End in 1936-37.

Slot 'underestimated' Trent exit

Paul Merson breaks down Arne Slot's issues at Liverpool, hinting that Trent Alexander-Arnold leaving might be the root cause.

Liverpool’s shock decline

Liverpool are looking to avoid losing five consecutive league matches for the first time since September 1953 – they are the first side in English top-flight history to win their first five matches in a season but then lose each of their next four.

Gravenberch back for Liverpool

Three changes to the Liverpool team that lost at Brentford. The headline news is that Ryan Gravenberch is fit to start in place of Curtis Jones.

Alexis Mac Allister and Andrew Robertson also come in with summer signings Milos Kerkez and Florian Wirtz dropping to the bench.

Do Liverpool lack depth?

We look at the numbers to see if there's merit in Arne Slot's comments suggesting Liverpool are lacking strength in depth.

Just the one change for Villa

One change to the Aston Villa team that beat Manchester City and it is enforced as Emi Buendia misses out through injury. He is replaced by Evann Guessand.

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Tottenham inflicted Everton's first defeat at their new Hill Dickinson Stadium with a 3-0 win thanks to defender Micky van de Ven's first-half double to move into the top four.

Everton had not lost any of their first five matches at their new home but were undone before half-time by a pair of goals from corners - the first they have conceded from set pieces all season - before Pape Mate Sarr's late third sealed the win.

Van de Ven continued his superb scoring form with his fourth and fifth goals of the campaign but could not have wished for an easier pair of finishes. He first glanced Rodrigo Bentancur's header back across goal beyond Jordan Pickford, before being left totally unmarked to do likewise from Pedro Porro's excellent delivery.

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Everton had a Jake O'Brien goal disallowed when Spurs were 1-0 up after a VAR review led to his powerful near-post header being ruled out due to Iliman Ndiaye impeding goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario from an offside position.

There was debate around the decision but Everton boss David Moyes felt it was the right call. "It wasn't a goal," he told Sky Sports. It's hard to take but in the end it's the right decision.

"The position he (Ndiaye) took up with the goalkeeper, if it had happened to me I'd be complaining it was an offside goal."

A second-half rally was not enough to keep the Toffees' invincible start to life at Bramley-Moor Dock intact, with Beto's acrobatic bicycle kick brilliantly saved by Vicario, and Ndiaye's deflected effort pulling another strong stop from the Italian.

Instead, Everton's fans were left streaming out of their new home before full-time for the first time once Sarr had nodded another header beyond Pickford from Richarlison's nod across goal.

Amid a weekend of surprise results, three points on Merseyside was enough to send Tottenham into third after a previously shaky week, five points off leaders and north London rivals Arsenal.

Moyes: No need to overreact

Everton head coach David Moyes to Sky Sports:

"We don't need to react in any big fashion. We played a good Tottenham team. They're in the Champions League.

"We've moved from the stadium, the position we were in needed to improve. First defeat at the stadium since we moved here."

Frank wanted to improve set-pieces

Tottenham head coach Thomas Frank to Sky Sports:

"I said from the beginning when we came in that I wanted to improve a lot and one of them was being defensively strong and also set-pieces needed to be better. Two very good goals but also the desire and mentality to defend the box.

"We tried to build something and add layers to the team all the time. The whole team was good but Joao Palhinha and Bentancur were fantastic. All the subs made a difference. This is a long season and we are going to need everyone."

Analysis: Spurs show nouse to end Everton run

Sky Sports' Ron Walker at the Hill Dickinson Stadium:

In driving rain and wind on the banks of the Mersey, Tottenham's performance was little more aesthetic than the day around them, but that was the intent all along from Thomas Frank's side.

They took the lead without playing particularly well but showed the threat they will always carry from set-pieces under this head coach, before slowing the game down as much as possible at every restart to disrupt Everton's rhythm - and it worked.

Despite starting brightly this was Jack Grealish's least effective game in a Toffees shirt, and as he faded only Iliman Ndiaye's flashes of brilliance and Beto's second-half acrobatics really threatened any sort of comeback.

Even if David Moyes pointed to Jake O'Brien's disallowed goal but the decision to penalise Ndiaye was 50-50, and without that slice of luck his side did not to enough across 90 minutes to earn anything.

Spurs continue to outperform their expected goals tally but they make their own luck - this isn't a pretty way of winning, and Frank is a manager who will want to bring a more expansive style in time, but for now it is effective enough to have last-season's fourth-bottom finishers up to third in the Premier League table.

Pickford could have a problem, says Carra

Sky Sports' Jamie Carragher:

"When I talk about certain teams and players not being suited to this style shift in the Premier League, Everton have got Jordan Pickford - England's No 1 and rightly so. But I think his size and presence of him isn't setup to deal with situations like the Van de Ven goal.

"It wasn't a good look for the England goalkeeper. He's a fantastic goalkeeper but if people keep putting balls on his head, he might have a problem."

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