Aston Villa 2-2 Liverpool: Trent Alexander-Arnold’s second-half equaliser moves Arne Slot’s men eight points clear
Premier League / Matchday 29
Villa Park / 19.02.2025
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- Y. Tielemans(38')
- O. Watkins(45+3')
- M. Salah(29')
- T. Alexander-Arnold(61')
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Updated 19/02/2025 at 21:58 GMT
10'
A LANDMARK OUTING FOR DIOGO JOTA
Jota is making the 300th appearance of his English club career in all competitions, the first 131 were with Wolves.
8'
VIDEO: HUTTON REVELS IN THROWBACK TO RETRO BALL
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6'
LIVERPOOL ATTEMPT
Jota glances a header well wide from a right-wing cross after Villa once again had trouble playing through the press.
5'
LIVERPOOL CHANCE
A lovely exchange between Alexander-Arnold and Salah ends with the latter cutting the ball back for Jota, but the forward's low shot is well blocked inside the six-yard box.
4'
LIVERPOOL CHANCE
A clever short corner from the left ends with Alexander-Arnold's outside of the foot ball finding van Dijk, but the Dutchman volleys over from the right side of the area.
3'
HEAD-TO-HEAD
At Villa Park in the league overall: Aston Villa 39 wins, Liverpool 35 wins, 22 draws.
At Villa Park in the Premier League era: Liverpool 16 wins, 6 draws 6 and Aston Villa 7 wins.
Liverpool have won more times at Villa Park than they have at any other away ground in the Premier League.
The Merseysiders have won 11 of the last 14 league meetings. Aston Villa have won only once in that time, but it was the emphatic 7-2 triumph at Villa Park in October 2020.
2'
THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE
Tonight’s official is Stuart Attwell.
1'
KICK OFF!
Liverpool us underway.
19:27
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19:24
THE VIEW FROM BOTH CAMPS
Aston Villa's Tyrone Mings: "We are looking forward to it and I think it will be a great game," he told TNT Sports earlier this evening.
"I am enjoying every minute and I have been really happy with my performances since coming back. We need to do more and be better and more consistent. Our biggest challenge is to maintain more consistency."
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Liverpool's Ibrahima Konate: "It will be so hard but today we have to be focused. We know the quality of this team. We don't have a lot of rest but this is the Premier League," he told TNT Sports.
"It is not only about their attacking players. They have a very good team and it will be tough for us."
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19:20
FORGET THE TITLE DEBATE: THIS IS THE REAL QUESTION OF THE EVENING!
Yes, we jest, but it's an intriguing one, especially if you are old enough to have watched peak Robbie Fowler in action.
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19:15
SLOT ADMITS TO BEING A RASHFORD FAN (BUT NOT TONIGHT)
Marcus Rashford has the chance to relaunch his career at Aston Villa between now and the end of the season.
His new side will take on Liverpool next up, and Reds boss Arne Slot believes the England international has the talent to impress under Unai Emery.
Meanwhile, the Liverpool boss caught up with us as he arrived at Villa Park earlier and is expecting an attacking, end-to-end encounter.
"We faced that against Wolves and we are facing that tonight, again, with some great individual players," he told TNT Sports.
"It is an evening game at Villa Park which is a difficult one and the only thing we need to do is compete and bring our level too.
"These are two teams with a lot of threat so there needs to be a lot of work rate too, to make sure the other team doesn't score."
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Slot answers 20 Questions - including the best Liverpool player of all time...
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19:10
Aston Villa
MCGINN EXCLUSIVE: VILLA SKIPPER DISCUSSES SPECIAL BOND WITH EMERY
John McGinn has heaped praise on his manager Unai Emery for the way that the Spaniard showed faith in him when "several people" thought that Aston Villa had "gone beyond" the Scotland midfielder.
McGinn, now the club captain at Villa Park, has become a key figure under the former Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain manager.
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McGinn says he and Emery have a 'love-hate' relationship
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"He said the other day that he hates me sometimes," McGinn told us.
"I said that I hate him. We don’t. We’ve got a love-hate relationship. He’s very demanding, ever since he came in. I’m so grateful for him, because at that time, my stock at Villa was at its lowest."
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'I think I'm in the wrong era!' - McGinn jokes 'every day a fashion shoot' at Villa
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19:07
EMERY CLAIMS LIVERPOOL ARE 'BETTER' UNDER ARNE SLOT
The Spaniard raised a few eyebrows in his pre-match press conference when he suggested The Merseysiders were great under Jurgen Klopp, but he’s even more impressed by what Arne Slot has done so far this season.
19:05
NEW BALL, PLEASE!
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19:02
Liverpool
ONE CHANGE FOR LIVERPOOL
Curtis Jones returns from his one-match ban following his red card against Everton and replaces Luis Diaz, who drops to the bench.
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Furious scrap after final whistle sees Jones and Doucoure sent off
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19:00
MARCUS RASHFORD STARTS FOR THE FIRST TIME FOR ASTON VILLA
The on-loan Man United forward, who netted five goals in eight home Premier League appearances for The Red Devils against Liverpool, replaces Jacob Ramsey in Unai Emery's line up.
Another January signing, Marco Asensio also gets the nod in an attacking midfield position while Tyrone Mings features in the centre of defence.
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18:55
WHAT FOOTBALL IS ON TNT SPORTS?
TNT Sports will show over 500 matches from the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League and the UEFA Conference League, as well as exclusive Premier League games across the 2024-25 season.
The streaming home for TNT Sports in the UK is discovery+, where fans can enjoy a subscription that includes TNT Sports, Eurosport and entertainment in one destination.
Any matches that fall within the Saturday blackout window in the UK cannot be shown live. The blackout window prohibits matches being shown on television between 14:45 and 17:15 in the UK.
18:50
HOT OFF THE PRESS! – THE TEAM SHEET IS IN!
CONFIRMED STARTING XIs: ASTON VILLA: Martinez, Garcia, Mings, Disasi, Digne, McGinn, Tielemans, Asensio, Rashford, Rogers, Watkins. /// LIVERPOOL: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Van Dijk, Konate, Robertson, Gravenberch, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Jones, Salah, Jota.
18:45
GOOD EVENING
Hello and welcome to LIVE updates of the Premier League clash between Aston Villa and leaders Liverpool.
Arne Slot's Reds are bidding to move 10 points clear at the summit but The Villans are a force to be reckoned with under the lights at Villa Park and will be aiming to ignite their own push back towards the European places.
Kick off 19.30 GMT.
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