Originally Posted by Parthenon:
“Hard not to be pleased after that unless you're one of those people hoping we lose to accelerate Brendan's departure. We controlled the game and Villa created very little. Sturridge marked his return to the side with 2 cracking goals and probably would have got a hat-trick had he been at 100%. He looked exhausted towards the end. Milner had a good game too, and Coutinho bagged 2 assists; he'll be delighted to have Sturridge's movement back in the side.
Gestede is a menace in the air and took his goals well. Perhaps Sakho could have done more with the 1st goal but I'd need to see it again. The 2nd was just a fantastic cross, leap and header.”
Yeah the 2nd was a great header. Not much else Sakho could do. It was more of an error not stopping the cross initially.
The first one was bad defending. Lucas should of stopped Hutton and can feel asleep marking Gestede. Hard to criticise Can too much though considering his not really a centr half so he won't have the same instincts as a natural defender.
As for the game the score line suggests a much closer game than it was. We were clearly the better side and a 100% Sturridge gets 3 or 4 goals today.
The good thing was at 3-2 the side never retreated into a shell.