Liverpool arrived on Sunday afternoon at Villa Park full of optimism and confidence ahead of their game against Aston Villa. They had won their previous 3 games in the Premier League and were hoping to make it 4 wins in a row against an Aston Villa side who survived relegation through a lucky technology error.
Ollie Watkins, who recently signed for a club-record fee of £28 million from Brentford, started the scoring after Adrian, Liverpool’s second string goalkeeper, sloppily gave the ball away for Watkins to easily put the ball past the keeper into the back of the net. Watkins then went on to complete the perfect hat trick scoring with his right and left foot and a goal with his head.
Liverpool was truly shocked and Klopp went on to tell BBC Sport “It looked like we lost the plot after it went to 1-0”.
Liverpool was missing both Sadio Mane and new summer signing Thiago due to Coronavirus but created the “wrong type of history” according to German manager Jurgen Klopp.
This was the first time since April 1963 that Liverpool had conceded seven goals in a match and it left the Premier League champions in shock.
Many believed that after Manchester City dropped points two weeks in a row against Leicester City and Leeds United that Liverpool would have a free run at the Premier League title but this showed that for Liverpool, there is still a lot of work to be done.
