Aston Villa hammered Liverpool 5-0 on Tuesday night.
Aston Villa are into the last four of the Carabao Cup after beating a youthful Liverpool side 5-0 at Villa Park on Tuesday night.
With Liverpool’s first team over in Qatar for the Club World Cup, they had to field a team full of youngsters in order to honour both commitments.
It was the youngest team Liverpool have ever fielded, and whilst they did start well, Villa took over with Conor Hourihane opening the scoring before Morgan Boyes scored an unfortunate own goal.
Jonathan Kodjia bagged a brace to leave Villa 4-0 up at the break, and Wesley came off the bench to add a late fifth to send Villa through.
Dean Smith may not have learned too much about his players given the inexperienced opposition, but some players may have given him something to think about ahead of this weekend’s big game with Southampton.
One of those may be midfielder Douglas Luiz, who turned in a dominant and composed display in the Villa midfield alongside Hourihane and Henri Lansbury.
The Brazilian may be in line for a start against Southampton with John McGinn lacking fitness, and fans took to Twitter to hail the former Manchester City man’s performance against the Reds.
Some called him ‘brilliant, ‘very effective’ and ‘easy on the eye’ after a fine display, praising him for breezing through the game whilst tipping him to be worth big money in the future.
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