Line-up's are interesting.

Aston Villa: Nyland, Elmohamady, Chester, Konsa, Taylor, Lansbury, Douglas Luiz, Hourihane, Jota, Kodjia, Trezeguet. Subs: McGinn, Wesley, Grealish, El Ghazi, Guilbert, Kalinic, Hause.

Liverpool: Kelleher, Hoever, van den Berg, Boyes, Gallacher, Kane, Chirivella, Christie-Davies, Elliott, Hill, Longstaff. Subs: Clarkson, Norris, Winterbottom, Dixon-Bonner, Clayton, Bearne, Stewart.

Nope i haven't heard of any of the Liverpool squad either,a strong bench for Villa if they need to ring the changes,i assume Liverpool will be fined for fielding a weakened team

Opted for the darts, as read that Liverpool will be putting out a youth team.

Liverpool started well

playing well so far

Villa make ten changes also. Could be embarrassing if Liverpool beat them.
Surprised though a chance of a cup semi-final when it was known the Scousers were going to put a young team out.

Very surprised at Villa putting a reserve side out in the later rounds.
Another manager not bothered about winning a trophy.

Villa are 4th from bottom and want to stay in the Premier League, so not too much of a surprise really.

1-0 Villa.

Thats settled the crowd 1-0 Villa

Well Liverpool have their 3 rd eleven playing

Lowest Pool squad number 51

2-0

2-0

The lad Lansbury looks a decent player - cheeky bid?

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:02 pm

Lowest Pool squad number 51

The highest player No is 99 - and he's started.

The total of the starting 11 is 737
The total of the bench is 552

Making a grand total of 1289 !!!!!

This must be a record, surely.

I've gone for the Plymouth/Bristol Rovers game in the hope of a tasty, kicking-lumps-off-each-other West country derby, but its pretty tame so far.

As I was saying great work Dean Smith

Funkydrummer wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:11 pm

The highest player No is 99 - and he's started.

The total of the starting 11 is 737
The total of the bench is 552

Making a grand total of 1289 !!!!!

This must be a record, surely.

Can you tell that I'm sat here with man flu and bored out of my tree ?

That really was a sad excercise tbh.

Harvey Elliott looks a prospect,i wouldn't mind him on loan in January,him and Dwight on both wings would give us a different dimension.

Hard to believe he's only 16.

Make that 3-0.

Will Oxford put out a second string against Citeh tomorrow do you think ?

Oh dear 4-0

Blimey, 4-0.

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:19 pm

Harvey Elliott looks a prospect,i wouldn't mind him on loan in January,him and Dwight on both wings would give us a different dimension.

Hard to believe he's only 16.

Is that the lad with the appalling man bun?

Jeffbfc wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:59 pm

Villa make ten changes also. Could be embarrassing if Liverpool beat them.
Surprised though a chance of a cup semi-final when it was known the Scousers were going to put a young team out.

I'll get my coat.

Bit of a harsh result first half, Pedro Chirivella looks a decent player in the middle of the park , 22 years old holding midfielder. Interesting to see his second half display, looks very comfortable on the ball.

Don't be feeling sorry for these kids. They will all be on about 10-15 grand a week.

Men vs Boys

Just a total out there comment.
How long before a women's team gets the ok to play in a cup competition.

We'd still get beat.

Jeffbfc wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:40 pm

Just a total out there comment.
How long before a women's team gets the ok to play in a cup competition.

Wouldn’t happen, imagine a hand goes in the wrong place either way...and it’s misconstrued..too controversial a subject

dougcollins wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:44 pm

We'd still get beat.

It's just how teams don't take it seriously due to the Prem money.
Can't see it but never say never.

Hedontplayforyou wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:50 pm

Wouldn’t happen, imagine a hand goes in the wrong place either way...and it’s misconstrued..too controversial a subject

I actually edited my original post because I wrote if a women's team gets entered.
No. Let's not go there.

Villa 'keeper playing a blinder.

I wonder what the other Quarter finalists think about Villa being given a bye?

Oops, 5-0.

They must be sh!t, even Wesley scored.

just sums up the attitude towards cups comps, does a great disservice to the other lesser teams involved, but small wonder fans disregard these affairs thesedays. Only the extremely gullible will consider a victory as something special.

Complete disrespect for a cup competition by Liverpool. Couldn’t give a rats arse about a club World Cup or whatever it is. Had to look it up as didn’t know it was on or where it was. No doubt all about cash and sums up what is wrong with football.

How else were Liverpool going to do it? Send out the kids to play in the World Club Cup Competition and get banned from UEFA events for 2 years? They took their whole 25 player PL squad to the WCCC and essentially wrote off the League Cup.

bfcmik wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 17, 2019 10:54 pm

How else were Liverpool going to do it? Send out the kids to play in the World Club Cup Competition and get banned from UEFA events for 2 years? They took their whole 25 player PL squad to the WCCC and essentially wrote off the League Cup.

you are correct, but there's always a more alluring prize for the big clubs, and still the football media trot out the nonsense of the magic of the cup.what a load of ,,,,,,,,,

It's not just tonight,PL and even Championship and lower league teams,treat this cup as little more than a training exercise,and a chance to blood youngsters and give fringe players a run-out,heavens even Burnley & Sunderland fielded second strings in an earlier round.

There is going to have to be a serious rethink of the fixture calendar in forthcoming seasons,and sad as it maybe,this competition has become surplus to requirements for most teams.

Big teams don't take it seriously............list of winners since 2000

2019 Manchester City
2018 Manchester City
2017 Manchester United
2016 Manchester City
2015 Chelsea FC
2014 Manchester City
2013 Swansea City
2012 Liverpool FC
2011 Birmingham City
2010 Manchester United
2009 Manchester United
2008 Tottenham Hotspur
2007 Chelsea FC
2006 Manchester United
2005 Chelsea FC
2004 Middlesbrough FC
2003 Liverpool FC
2002 Blackburn Rovers
2001 Liverpool FC
2000 Leicester City

granted Bastards are in the list but there is always an anomaly !

Vegas Claret wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 17, 2019 11:32 pm

Big teams don't take it seriously............list of the last 15 winners

2019 Manchester City
2018 Manchester City
2017 Manchester United
2016 Manchester City
2015 Chelsea FC
2014 Manchester City
2013 Swansea City
2012 Liverpool FC
2011 Birmingham City
2010 Manchester United
2009 Manchester United
2008 Tottenham Hotspur
2007 Chelsea FC
2006 Manchester United
2005 Chelsea FC

Improved it for you. You're welcome

Had to smile when reading that Harvey Elliot when making his EFL cup debut last year was so young he had to have his own changing room on child protection grounds.

I think Klopp used this fixture to make a point. They could have flown 15 of the first team squad out and a few reserves to play against the might of Monterrey leaving a reasonable team to play Villa reserves, then have them join up tomorrow in time for the final.

Jeffbfc wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:40 pm

Just a total out there comment.
How long before a women's team gets the ok to play in a cup competition.

Andy Caroll would dismantle them!

Quite a number of other countries have ditched their equivalent of the League Cup and it would not surprise me to see the same thing happen in England within the next few years, particularly if the European Championship etc. change their system.