And Sturridge, who opened the scoring in Liverpool’s 6-0 thrashing of Aston Villa on Sunday afternoon, was thrilled to see his England team-mate back in action for Arsenal.
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Emre Can, Divock Origi, Nathaniel Clyne and Kolo Toure each scored in a 13-minute spell, resulting in Villa’s heaviest home defeat in the Premier League era and prompting thousands of fans to leave the ground well before full-time.
Liverpool have to wait until March 2 to play again in the Barclays Premier League, when they host Manchester City, and go to Augsburg in the Europa League on Thursday and Milner is eager to put a run together.
Liverpool’s win ended their run of five games without a victory in all competitions.
“We came here and won the game for that’s important for us”. It [doesn’t happen] too often in a manager’s life, so we should keep it for bad times.
“Of course Liverpool is a very good side with so many talented players but then sometimes fighting spirit, especially in the position where we were, I was expecting that but we were not able to deliver it”. “For me it’s not a surprise he can score goals”, Klopp said, following Sturridge’s first start under him. It’s really good to see.
One spectator yesterday was Dennis Mortimer, Villa’s 1982 European Cup-winning captain.
“I saw that as well”, he said when questioned about Villa’s lack of fight.
Carragher, the former Liverpool defender and current Sky Sports pundit, reckons this Villa side could be worse than the Derby County team that was relegated with a record low number of points in 2007-08.
Remi Garde is disappointed in Aston Villa’s performance at home in a 6-0 loss to Liverpool.
Sturridge started for the first time since October and got his goal 16 minutes in heading in a Coutinho cross. “The understanding around how to play as a team is not there”, said Mortimer, who played more than 400 games for the club.
Manuel Pellegrini is not happy about the penalty decision that led to Tottenham’s first goal, but admits there is a larger issue.
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“Today he was brilliant, but this is not a day for us to sing songs”. He could take greater satisfaction from Liverpool demonstrating that, with Daniel Sturridge and Philippe Coutinho available, they do have armoury to punish weak defending.
