Aston Villa deservedly stunned champions Liverpool with one of the most unbelievable scorelines in Premier League history. Ollie Watkins scored a first-half hat-trick and Jack Grealish had a hand in five goals. Although Mohamed Salah looked to have restored order when he scored for the Reds, John McGinn’s later put Villa’s lead back to two just after two minutes.
It is the first time Liverpool have faced seven goals since 1963. It is only their fourth Premier League defeat since 3 January 2019. This is the first time in 18 attempts that Villa has beaten the reigning champions at home – the last was a 3-2 win over Arsenal in December 1998.
This is a result that makes no sense. Apart from the fact, Aston Villa was remarkable and clinical and Liverpool was unbelievably bad. A team who almost got relegated last season beat the defending champions who barely ever lose – 7-2.
Villa is now unbeaten in seven league games, including the run that saw them stay up at the end of last season, and have won all three league matches this season.
Klopp’s reaction on Villa’s victory:
“You have to say that Villa did very well,” Klopp told BBC Sport. “They were very physical, very smart, and very direct, we were not.
“We had big chances which we did not use, but when you concede seven I’m not sure you can say it would have been 7-7. We made too many mistakes and massive ones obviously. It started with the first goal and around the goals, we made massive mistakes.”
Kudos to Aston Villa for changing the statistics and defeating the champions by a surprisingly great performance.